Top Law News Supreme Court may be moved on CJI impeachment rejection: Tulsi April 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nominated Rajya Sabha member K.T.S. Tulsi on Monday said the opposition parties have the option of moving the Supreme Court against the order of Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu rejecting their impeachment notice against Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Tulsi, who was among the signatories to the impeachment notice, disagreed with the order of the Rajya […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra CJI impeachment rejection featured K.T.S. Tulsi Rajya Sabha Chairman Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu
Top Law News Supreme Court asks Jay Shah, web portal to try to settle defamation case April 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked Jay Shah, son of BJP president Amit Shah and ‘The Wire’ and its scribes, to try to amicably settle the criminal defamation case lodged by the former against the news portal and others. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also extended its interim order that had asked the […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Gujarat High Court public domain electronically Rohini Singh Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court takes cognisance of lawyers’ obstruction in Kathua gangrape case April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today took a serious note of lawyers obstructing the judicial process in the Kathua gangrape and murder case and initiated a case on its own accord saying such impeding of the process of law “affects the delivery of justice”. The top court said that lawyers’ bodies have solemn duty to not obstruct […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Chief Justice Dipak Misra D Y Chandrachud featured Gopal Shankar Narayanan Jammu and Kashmir Kathua P V Dinesh Shobha Gupta Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court seeks material on strike by J-K bar body:Kathua gangrape April 13, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked a lawyer to bring materials on record to take judicial note of a strike call given by Kathua and Jammu and Kashmir bar associations in relation to the gangrape and killing of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu region. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked lawyer P V […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Jammu and Kashmir Kathua gang rape P V Dinesh Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Supreme Court to hear next week plea for CBI probe into Unnao gangrape April 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will hear next week here a plea for a CBI probe into the Unnao gangrape case allegedly involving a BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said it would hear the plea which had also alleged that the rape victim’s […] Read more » BJP MLA BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar from Bangarmau constituency Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice AM Khanwilkar Justice DY Chandrachud kuldeep Kuldeep Singh Sengar Nirbhaya gangrape case Supreme Court Unnao gangrape victim father death
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects PIL to frame rules to regulate composition of benches April 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a PIL seeking the framing of rules to regulate the composition of benches, including constitution benches, and the allocation of work. Junking the PIL by advocate Asok Pande, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said that the CJI was the head […] Read more » advocate Asok Pande Chief Justice Dipak Misra CJI featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice Chandrachud Justice D.Y. Chandrachud PIL Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court seeks report from Centre on facilities at Rohingyas camps April 10, 2018 / April 10, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to file a comprehensive status report in four weeks on the civic amenities at two Rohingya camps in Delhi and Haryana after it was alleged that basic facilities like drinking water and toilets also not available there. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also raised the […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Foreigner Regional Registration Office Supreme Court The Rohingyas Western Rakhine State of Myanmar
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to order CBI probe into cases of fuel adulteration April 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to order a CBI probe into cases of fuel adulteration, saying that the law was already in place to enable the authorities to take action against such malpractices. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra noted that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has filed an affidavit stating […] Read more » CBI CBI probe into fuel adulteration Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud Motor Spirit and High Speed Diesel
Top Law News Aadhaar scheme approved by experts: Centre tells Supreme Court April 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today told the Supreme Court that its Aadhaar scheme has been approved by experts and was not open to judicial review as it was a policy decision. The government told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra which is examining the validity of Aadhaar scheme and its enabling 2016 law […] Read more » Aadhaar scheme Chief Justice Dipak Misra Supreme Court US courts
Top Law News Aadhaar law is just, fair & reasonable: Centre to SC April 4, 2018 / April 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today justified the Aadhaar Act in the Supreme Court, saying it was a “fair and reasonable law” which complied with the tests prescribed by the historic verdict on the right to privacy. A nine-judge constitution bench, on August 24 last year, had declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right and termed […] Read more » Aadhaar Ac Ajay Bhushan Pandey Attorney general Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice D.Y. Chandrachud UIDAI
Top Law News Cauvery dispute: SC agrees to hear Centre’s plea on Apr 9 April 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the Centre’s plea seeking clarification on the February 16 verdict regarding setting up of a Cauvery management scheme in the decades-old river water sharing dispute. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud kept for hearing on April 9 the […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Chief Justice Dipak Misra higher pedestal Supreme Court
Top Law News Cauvery Management Board: SC to hear TN’s plea against Centre April 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a contempt plea of the Tamil Nadu government against the Centre for not constituting the Cauvery Management Board (CMB). A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud posted the matter for April 9. “We understand Tamil Nadu’s difficulty of not […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Cauvery Management Board Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal Cauvery Water Regulation Committee Chief Justice Dipak Misra CMB CWDT D Y Chandrachud featured Supreme Court Union Territory of Puducherry Water Regulation Committee
