Month: January 2018

Source – tribuneindia.com Quality of judgments written by high courts is troubling the Supreme Court. Days after it set aside a Himachal Pradesh High Court verdict for poor and incomprehensible English, the top court has remanded back a case to the Rajasthan High Court after it found that the verdict under challenge neither set out facts

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said the Formula One motor racing championship had a permanent establishment in India, making income generated taxable in the country, marking a key victory for the tax department. The decision is seen as having wide implications for foreign companies that do business in the country. The apex

Source – india.com New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that every cow and its progeny will be given a Unique Identification Number (UIN) and will be kept at shelter homes run by state governments in every district after they cease to give milk. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar told the

Source – financialexpress.com The Delhi High Court today exempted actor Akshay Kumar from personal appearance before a trial court in a defamation case filed by Bata footwear company which had objected to a dialogue in his film ‘Jolly LLB 2’. “Till the next date of hearing the petitioner (Kumar) is exempted from personal appearance before

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that judiciary is not the forum to decide what should be included or excluded from school syllabus or what should be taught in educational institutions. Refusing to entertain a PIL seeking inclusion of teachings of ten Sikh gurus in school curriculum, a bench of Justices

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to consider making a law to regulate NGOs, disbursal of funds to them and consequential proceedings on account of defaults and asked it to respond in eight weeks. A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said the existing regulations were not

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the WhatsApp privacy policy case. Assuring the Supreme Court that it was actively considering a law on protecting data imprint of individuals on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social networking sites, the Centre had, on April 18, sought deferment of the hearing. Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi

Source – asianage.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court has declined the Centre’s curative petition seeking protection to the Army in dealing with militants and insurgency situations in Manipur from the purview of registration of FIR for alleged fake encounters. A five-judge Bench of Chief Justices J.S. Khehar and Justices Dipak Misra, J. Chelameswar, Madan Lokur and Uday

Source – indiatimes.com GURUGRAM: A five-judge bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that common land (shamlat deh) in villages that have been notified under municipal corporations but have been contributed by individual land owners to the panchayat for agrarian purposes belong to the original individual owners. Thus, if a municipal corporation wants

source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Delhi High Court today directed the AAP government to ensure that a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl, who has been allegedly asked by her school not to attend classes since she does not have an Aadhaar card, be allowed to study.“We do not want a child to lose a year,” a bench