Source – indiatoday.in The mother of the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder victim, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, on Friday moved the Supreme Court to oppose a review plea by one of the four men sentenced to death in the case. Akshay Kumar’s plea, seeking a review of the apex court’s 2017 verdict giving him
Source – indiatoday.in The Supreme Court set up a three-member inquiry commission today to investigate the recent killing of four Telangana rape and murder suspects in what the police said was an encounter. The commission will be headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice VS Sirpurkar. The two others on the panel are former
Source – hindustantimes.com The review petitions challenging the November 9 judgment of the Supreme Court in the Ayodhya title dispute will be heard in-chamber by a five-judge bench of the apex court at 1.40pm on Thursday. The bench will be headed by current Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde with justices DY Chandrachud, Ashok
Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the office of Chief Justice comes under the transparency law, the Right to Information (RTI) Act, adding that judicial independence cannot be attained by holding back information. ‘Judicial independence and accountability go hand in hand…Transparency strengthens independence,” said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who heads the five-judge bench.
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a write petition filed by VCK president Thol. Thirumavalavan to declare as unconstitutional an ordinance promulgated by the State government on November 20 for changing the mode of election to the posts of mayors and municipal chairpersons from direct to indirect. Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap
Source – thewire.in Jaipur: The Rajasthan high court on December 2 dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) into cases where ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company allegedly tricked people into buying its policies. The order is yet to be uploaded on the high court’s website. The plea was filed by a former employee of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
Source – newindianexpress.com CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court may have started the process for transfer of cases pending in the Odisha Administration Tribunal (OAT). But ‘en bloc transfer’ of cases from OAT cannot be done right now as a stay order poses a roadblock. This is evident from an ‘Office Order’ the High Court has issued
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a young widow who was denied home loan insurance by a private firm despite having lost her 39-year-old husband due to a cardiac arrest when he was behind the wheels of his car on his way to office in Abu Dhabi in
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Monday accepted a request made on behalf of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram and permitted him to appear before it on February 7 for cross examination in a case challenging his victory from the Sivaganga Parliamentary constituency in 2009 by a margin of 3,354 votes. Justice Pushpa
Source – hindustantimes.com The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against sitting Allahabad high court judge Justice Shri Narayan Shukla alleging that he accepted bribe in lieu of giving a favourable order for a Lucknow-based medical college. Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences was disbarred from taking admissions by the government in May
