Top Law News Collegium: Further deliberation needed for elevating Judge to Supreme Court May 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court collegium has favoured “further deliberation” and “broad-based consideration” of names of Chief Justices of various high courts before sending its decision reiterating the elevation of Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the top court. The resolution of the May 16 collegium meeting, uploaded on the supreme court website […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Chief Justice K M Joseph Collegium featured Indira Banerjee J Chelameswar Kurian Joseph M B Lokur R Subhash Reddy Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News Supreme Court witnesses high-voltage hearing on Karnataka crisis May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The high-voltage hearing on the Karnataka crisis in the Supreme Court today witnessed trading of charges between the BJP and the Congress-JD(S) combine with both claiming to have numbers in their favour. The combine alleged that Governor Vajubhai Vala was not correct in inviting the BJP, which had lesser numbers than the Congress-JD(S) alliance. However, […] Read more » featured Governor Vajubhai Vala Karnataka crisis Mukul Rohatgi
Top Law News Supreme Court approves draft Cauvery Management Scheme May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today approved the Centre’s draft Cauvery Management Scheme for smooth distribution of water among four southern riparian states. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra rejected the suggestions of Karnataka and Kerala governments over the scheme, terming them as devoid of merits. The bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar BJP Cauvery Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Congress-JD CWDT Dipak Misra featured Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court orders floor test in Karnataka Assembly at 4pm tomorrow May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today ordered a floor test in the Karnataka Assembly at 4 PM tomorrow, reducing the 15-day window given by the Governor to BJP Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to prove majority. “Let the House decide and the best course would be floor test,” a three-judge bench headed by Justice A K Sikri […] Read more » featured floor test Karnataka Assembly
Top Law News Supreme Court notice to Centre on fresh plea seeking to decriminalise gay sex May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre seeking its reply on a plea by a group of 20 former and current students of the prestigious IITs challenging section 377 of the IPC, which criminalises unnatural sex between two consenting adults of the same gender. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices […] Read more » 'Humsafar Trust' A M Khanwilkar Arif Jafar Ashok Row Kavi Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured gay sex LGBT
Top Law News Priyadarshini Mattoo case: High Court asks convict to give his edu details May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving life term for rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo in 1996, to file complete details of his education. The court noted that Singh has been pursuing the two-year LLM programme since 2012 and asked how long would he take to complete […] Read more » antosh Kumar Singh featured LLM programme Priyadarshini Mattoo case
Top Law News High Court raps police for seeking remand of people even for petty offences May 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court has slammed police for invoking powers vested with them during “pre-independence era” and seeking remand of people even for petty offences. Justice M S Ramesh said the Supreme Court has time and again reiterated the cardinal principles, namely, “bail is the rule and jail is an exception and that persons accused […] Read more » featured High Court M S Ramesh Madras High Court police remand
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to stay Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in : Karnataka tussle May 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to stay BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in as Karnataka Chief Minister after a rare pre-dawn hearing which saw the Congress-JD (S) combine making a last-ditch attempt to stall the saffron party’s surge in the southern state. The apex court, which commenced the hearing at 2.11 AM and ended at […] Read more » A.K. Sikri Ashok Bhushan B.S. Yeddyurappa featured H D Kumaraswamy Karnataka chief minister Mukul Rohatgi S A Bobde Yeddyurappa
Top Law News Supreme Court Collegium defers decision on Justice Joseph’s elevation to supreme court May 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Collegium today again deferred its decision on the issue of recommending Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph for elevation to the top court after it was returned by the Centre. An supreme court official said that no decision has been taken as to when the recommendation will be sent to the Centre. […] Read more » elevation featured K M Joseph Ramchandra Singh Jhala Uttarakhand Chief Justice Uttarakhand High Court
Top Law News High Court says, Scope of habeas corpus pleas limited May 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court has made it clear that the scope of habeas corpus petitions is limited and said the extraordinary jurisdiction of the constitutional courts cannot be invoked for dealing with such missing cases, where there is no “strong suspicion” of illegal detention. A habeas corpus plea is a petition which is filed to […] Read more » featured habeas corpus Madras High Court S M Subramaniam S Ramathilagam Scope of habeas corpus pleas
Top Law News Supreme Court on Karnataka tussle: Trend of past judgments not to restrain Guv May 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the Karnataka power tussle turning into a midnight courtroom battle, the Supreme Court said the general trend of its past judgments was not to restrain the governor, as it heard a plea by the Congress-JD(S) combine against the governor’s decision to invite BJP’s B S Yeddyurappa to form the government. The apex court also […] Read more » A.K. Sikri ASG Maninder Singh Ashok Bhushan Attorney General K K Venugopal B.S. Yeddyurappa CJI CJI Misra featured Karnataka tussle MLA S A Bobde
Top Law News Supreme Court: Auction process of Sahara’s Aamby Valley property to continue May 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The auction process for the Sahara group’s prime Aamby Valley properties would continue as it has failed to deposit Rs 750 crore in the SEBI-Sahara refund account, the Supreme Court held today. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and A K Sikri was informed by the counsel representing the official […] Read more » Ashok Roy Choudhary Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Ravi Shankar Dubey Sahara's Aamby Valley
