Top Law News Supreme Court upholds seats for poor under Right to Education April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education (RTE) act that mandates unaided private schools to keep 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society. However, the court made it clear that this quota would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions. The apex court […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Right to Education Supreme Court
Top Law News Poor school students’ quota: Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Thursday April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Thursday pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the right to education law that requires private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for poor students. The judgment, reserved Aug 3, 2011 after a prolonged hearing, would be pronounced by a bench of Chief Justice S.H. […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Right to Education law Supreme Court
Top Law News Don’t turn to us for everything, Supreme Court tells government April 3, 2012 / April 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday slammed the tendency of government departments to seeks its decision before acting when confronted with a contentious situation. “Everyone wants the decision of the court be it army, minister of defence or the home ministry. They want the stamp of this court,” said a bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice Swatanter […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General P.P. Malhotra Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court United Liberation Front of Asom
Top Law News Prior sanction needed for proceeding against army, court told March 27, 2012 / March 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union government Monday told the Supreme Court that prior section was necessary for instituting legal proceedings against army personnel engaged in anti-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. It, however, sought to assure the apex court that ‘highest priority would be given to the preservation and protection of […] Read more » Armed Forces Special Powers Act Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Government plea on Vodafone tax verdict dismissed March 21, 2012 / March 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Tuesday suffered a setback as the Supreme Court dismissed its plea for a review in the Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute case against telecom giant Vodafone. The rejection of the review petition meant that the government will have to return the Rs.2,500 crore Vodafone had deposited. “We look forward to the return […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court telecom giant Vodafone
Criminal Law News Soldiers killed five in cold blood, CBI tells Supreme Court March 20, 2012 / March 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday accused, in the Supreme Court, army personnel of killing five “innocent” people in cold blood in the wake of the 2000 killing of 36 Sikhs in Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Appearing for the CBI, counsel Ashok Bhan made the charge before a bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice […] Read more » 2000 killing of 36 Sikhs in Kashmir's Anantnag district Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
High Profile Cases UP foodgrain scam: Supreme Court seeks CBI’s response March 15, 2012 / March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to respond to a plea seeking lifting of curbs on a corruption case related to alleged diversion of foodgrain. The petition sought a vacation of partial stay imposed by the court in 2011 on an order by the Allahabad […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court UP foodgrain scam
High Profile Cases Supreme Court dismisses petition in Vodafone case March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by advocate M.L. Sharma as “irresponsible and scandalous” that alleged conflict of interest over the court’s verdict in the Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone. Last month Sharma had alleged in a petition that Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia had not disclosed […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone
Top Law News Supreme Court nod on river interlinking February 27, 2012 / February 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today gave the green signal for implementing the ambitious project to interlink India’s rivers, saying it was in national interest. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia also constituted a high-powered committee headed by the water resources minister to work out the roadmap for the project. The court said that […] Read more » Chief Justice SH Kapadia interlink India's rivers Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court cautions police, stir organisers February 24, 2012 / February 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said that the law enforcing agencies should give reasonable notice and time to organisers of agitations to comply with their orders, while the protestors too have the duty to maintain order. The directions issued by the apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said “except in cases […] Read more » Baba Ramdev Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Government seeks review of Supreme Court’s Vodafone verdict February 18, 2012 / February 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian tax authorities Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court on its verdict in a Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute favouring telecom service provider Vodafone. The case involved a levy on a 2007 transaction in which Vodafone Plc had paid $11.2 billion to Hong Kong-based Hutchison for acquiring a 67-percent stake […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court Vodafone verdict
Top Law News Workers’ welfare boards’ accounts to be audited: Supreme Court February 9, 2012 / February 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that accounts of all state welfare boards set up for collecting cess and disbursal of funds under schemes meant for construction workers would be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). “All the state welfare boards shall be subjected to audit by the CAG within two months from today,” […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act 1996 Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court