High Profile Cases Outgoing CJI Gogoi declines requests for interviews and lauds media for maturity in trying times of Supreme Court. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Friday expressed his inability to have one-to-one interview with scribes and lauded the press for its “maturity” and “character” in preventing “canards and falsehood” in “trying times” of the judiciary. Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the […] Read more » CJI Dipak Misra Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph Madan B Lokur Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News SC wasn’t going in right direction under CJI Dipak Misra says Justice Kurien Joseph December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Justice Kurian Joseph, said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra who was being controlled from outside and was allocating cases to judges with political bias. It had become a question of the independence of the judiciary, protection of democracy and the institution of the Supreme Court, […] Read more » featured former cji dipak misra Justice Kurian Joseph
High Profile Cases CJI first among equals with power to allocate cases: Supreme Court April 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the “first among equals” and occupies a unique position having the “exclusive prerogative” to allocate cases and set up benches to hear cases, the Supreme Court ruled today. The verdict assumed significance as it came in the backdrop of the January 12 unprecedented press conference of senior-most judges […] Read more » allocation of cases CJI featured Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice Ranjan Gogoi NGO Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms
High Profile Cases Supreme Court seeks reply on plea for CBI probe into Junaid lynching case March 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking a CBI probe into the Ballabhgarh mob lynching case in which 17-year-old Junaid Khan was stabbed to death on a train in June last year. A bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and M M Shantanagoudar also stayed the trial in the case till […] Read more » Ballabhgarh mob lynching case featured Junaid lynching case Justice Kurian Joseph Justice M M Shantanagoudar
Top Law News Judges row: SC to soon make public work allocation system January 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has examined suggestions from stakeholders to bring transparency in allocation of sensitive PILs to judges and is likely to bring in the public domain soon the system he is going to adopt for it, sources close to him said today. They said that the listing of two petitions demanding […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra featured Judges row justice Jasti Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur Justice Ranjan Gogoi public work allocation system SC SCBA Supreme Court Bar Association
Top Law News BCI panel discusses SC crisis with Justice Arun Mishra January 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bar Council of India panel today met Supreme Court judge Arun Mishra and discussed the crisis in the apex judiciary. Justice Mishra was assigned by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra a PIL relating to the death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. Four senior […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI panel featured Justice a J Chelameswar Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice Arun Mishra Justice Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur Justice R.K. Agrawal Justice Ranjan Gogoi SC crisis
Top Law News SC crisis: BCI delegation meeting SC judges January 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bar Council of India delegation led by its chairman Manan Kumar Mishra is meeting Supreme Court judges today to discuss the unprecedented crisis that has hit the judiciary. According to sources, the seven-member delegation has already met some of the judges of the top court and are scheduled to meet remaining judges including Chief […] Read more » featured Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur Justice Ranjan Gogoi SC crisis
Top Law News Four senior judges say situation in SC “not in order” January 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an unprecedented move, four senior most judges of the Supreme Court today called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things have taken place. Unless this institution is preserved, “democracy will not survive in this country,” the four judges said. Justice […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal CJI Dipak Misra featured Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur Justice Ranjan Gogoi situation in SC "not in order" Supreme Court judges’ press conference
High Profile Cases Top Law News SC Questions Centre for Opposing French Woman’s Release November 9, 2015 / November 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has questioned the government’s stand of opposing the release of a French woman facing extradition on charges of involvement in the assassination of a Chilean senator in 1991. A bench headed by Justice Kurian Joseph quizzed the Centre over its contradictory stand of allowing two Italian marines, accused of shooting dead two […] Read more » featured French Woman's Release Justice Kurian Joseph Opposing French Woman's Release
High Profile Cases Coal scam: SC-appointed team seeks former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha’s visitors’ diary September 30, 2015 / September 30, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court had on September 14, entrusted M L Sharma with the power to summon any person in his inquiry against Sinha, accused of scuttling probe in the coal block scam as the agency’s chief. The apex court-appointed probe team led by ex-CBI Special Director M L Sharma today moved the Supreme Court seeking […] Read more » 2G scam Advocate Prashant Bhushan ex-CBI Special Director M L Sharma featured Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Madan B. Lokur
Consumer Law News Top Law News SC asks Bagrodia to appear before special court in coal block case September 7, 2015 / September 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday asked former union minister Santosh Bagrodia to appear before a special CBI court here on September 8 in coal block allocation case. A bench of Justice M.B. Lokur, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice A.K. Sikri said it will examine Bagrodia’s plea soon while declining him relief. Bagrodia, a minister of […] Read more » Bagrodia to appear before special court Coal Block case featured former union minister Santosh Bagrodia Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Kurian Joseph justice M B Lokur
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC rejects plea challenging Coal Ordinance December 19, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea challenging the ordinance on coal blocks, providing for retrospective recovery of a levy of Rs. 295 per metric tonne of extracted coal and linking its payment as a qualification to participate in the cancelled . The Coal Mines (Special Provision) Ordinance, 2014, was promulgated for the allocation of […] Read more » Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi CESC senior counsel Gopal Subramanium coal blocks' auction Coal Mines (Special Provision) Ordinance 2014 Coal Ordinance Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Madan B. Lokur plea challenging Coal Ordinance rejected SC rejects plea challenging Coal Ordinance SC rejects plea challenging Coal Ordinance senior counsel K.V. Vishwanathan
