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Source:- news18.com New Delhi: A convict was set free on Sunday due to a typographical error in the Delhi High Court’s order, which was directed by the Supreme Court to surrender first before hearing his plea challenging the order to re-arrest him. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan refused to grant any relief

Source:- hindustantimes.com Private medical and dental colleges from Maharashtra have submitted a plea in the Supreme Court, challenging the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) decision to conduct admission to all medical and dental colleges, including private and deemed, through the state-led centralised admission process (CAP). According to a notification from MCI, issued on March 11,

Source:- dnaindia.com It is necessary for courts to take a “pragmatic view” of the rights of consumers in disputes concerning them since customers are at a disadvantage as compared to service providers, the Supreme Court has said. The court noted that Parliament had enacted the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 and provision of limitation in the

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has constituted a panel of two senior advocates to reduce the mounting number of pending cases and cut short the discomfiting delay in their disposal by various high courts across the country. The order appointing senior advocates Shyam Divan and CU Singh was passed last week by a bench of

Source – thehindu.com When told that security forces’ indiscriminate use of pellet guns against mobs in Jammu and Kashmir is creating a “nation of blind people”, the Supreme Court retorted by questioning the sense of humanity of the very people who form the mob and use children as cover while engaging security forces in pitched

Source – huffingtonpost.in NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking cancellation of the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan while observing that it has found no merit in the plea. The plea has been filed by a Delhi-based lawyer ML Sharma, who has said that the treaty is unconstitutional.

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: If you are still left with scrapped Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, having failed to deposit them in banks by the December 30 deadline, you could hold on to them till July-end. The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide in July whether the government should be asked

Source – hindustantimes.com Despite India’s strong message to Pakistan over the death sentence to former Indian navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav on espionage charges, the course of action ahead for the condemned prisoner remains arduous. Jadhav has legal resources at his disposal. He can move the Supreme Court of Pakistan, appealing against the military court which

The Supreme Court today said that power distribution firms like Adani Power Ltd and Tata Power Ltd cannot charge “compensatory tariff” from consumers and set aside the appellate tribunal’s judgement in this regard. Tata Power’s wholly owned subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd and Adani Power had originally moved the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) seeking

Source – bgr.in Even as experts are still debating over the existence of ‘harmful radiation’ from mobile towers, a Harish Chand Tiwari has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court of India to shut down a mobile tower for causing cancer to him. Gwalior-based Harish alleged that a BSNL tower located less than 50 meters from