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 – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court pulled up the defence ministry and Manipur government for their alleged inaction in a case involving a 15-year-old girl, who committed suicide after allegedly being raped by army personnel in October 2003. A bench headed by justice MB Lokur was hearing the petition related to extra-judicial killings in Manipur. Incidents
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:- india.com New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI) Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous remark in 1985 that only 15 paise of every rupee meant for welfare of downtrodden reaches them has found mention in the judgement of the Supreme Court which said this “malaise” can be taken care of by Aadhaar scheme. “A former prime
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Delay in amending the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to provide women a wider window to abort terminally ill fetuses is forcing many to move the Supreme Court for permission to end their pregnancies that are beyond the legally permissible termination period of 20 weeks. The SC on Wednesday sought
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court passes one line order —”Delay condoned. Dismissed” — in numerous civil and criminal cases, but it leaves death row convicts in the lurch as they lose the final legal battle for life in the last court of appeal without knowing the reasons. The practice of summary proceedings on
Source:- deccanherald.com University Grants Commission on Friday directed 34 deemed universities which offer medical programmes to abide by the Supreme Court’s recent order while filling up their seats as the Central Board of Secondary Education declared the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). The Centre’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will conduct the
Source:- hindustantimes.com The BJP government in Uttarakhand has moved the Supreme Court to relieve it of the duty of being the legal guardian of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers. Challenging a three-month-old verdict of the Uttarakhand High Court declaring the Ganga and Yamuna living entities, bestowing on them same legal rights as a person, the
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: In a bid to make itself paperless, the apex court has made all the preparations to implement an ambitious project. According to the apex court registry, the project would be implemented gradually and at the first instance, only fresh matters listed in first five courts would be accessed by the judges
