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Right To Reject Medical Treatment: SC Asks Govt. To Consider [Read Petition]
Prabhati Nayak MishraThe Supreme Court on Monday has refused to entertain a PIL as to whether a patient has right to reject medical treatment and pharmaceuticals but referred it to health ministry for...
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‘Politician’ Mother Disowns 3rd Child To Escape Disqualification, But DNA...
Ashok KMStrange as it may seem, the facts of this case show to what extent ‘politicians’ stoop to save their ‘posts’. A bench comprising Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice R Banumathi encountered an...
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LLB Certificates Verification: Complete Verification Within 8 Weeks Or Face...
Prabhati Nayak Mishra The bench also said the election of Delhi Bar Council to be conducted by August 31. Taking a tough stand against the universities for not complying with its earlier order, the...
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Before SC, Centre Strongly Defends Aadhaar-PAN, IT Returns Linkage
LiveLaw News NetworkAs the Supreme Court continued hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutionality of Section 139AA inserted in the Income Tax Act by the Finance Act, 2017 which made...
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SC Rejects Plea To Stay Designation Of Senior Advocates
Prabhati Nayak MishraThe Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an application that sought an order to stay the process of designating senior advocates in the apex court. A bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and...
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“You Have No Absolute Control Over Your Body”, Attorney General Answers...
LiveLaw Research TeamIn the ongoing hearing of challenges before the Supreme Court bench of justices A.K.Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, to Section 139AA of Income Tax Act, making enrolment of Aadhaar...
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No Limitation Period For Execution Of Preliminary Decree For Partition: SC...
Ashok KM Lis continues till preliminary decree culminates into final decree, it said. The Supreme Court, in Venu vs Ponnusamy Reddiar, has held that there is no limitation period for the execution of...
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Non-Compliance By Accused To Give Footprints Can’t Be Sole Basis Of...
Ashok KM Trial court had sentenced the accused to death The Supreme Court, in State of UP vs. Sunil, has held that non-compliance by the accused of direction of the court to give his footprints for...
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Now, Justice Karnan ‘Issues’ Non Bailable Warrant Against 7 SC Judges [Read...
Ashok KMThere seems to be no peace in sight in the ongoing battle between Justice Karnan and the Supreme Court. In the latest development, Justice CS Karnan has ‘issued’ a non-bailable warrant against...
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How A Senior Advocate & His Associate Set An Example For The Legal Community
Apoorva MandhaniSenior Advocate R Basant and his associate A Karthik were recently showered with praises by the Supreme Court when the duo declined to accept any remuneration for rendering assistance...
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Triple Talaq Case: SC Allows Salman Khurshid’s Impleadment Application
Prabhati Nayak MishraThe Apex Court has allowed Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid’s impleadment application as a Respondent in the Triple Talaq case. The Bench comprising Chief Justice J.S. Khehar,...
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SC Tells Essar To Pay Rs. 1,038.27 Cr To Gujarat Govt [Read Judgment]
Ashok KMThe Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal by Essar Steel India Ltd. against the Gujarat High Court judgment directing it to pay electricity duty amounting Rs. 1,038.27 crores to the Gujarat...
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SC Declines To Transfer Petition To Itself Where Bombay HC Held That No...
LiveLaw News NetworkIn an interesting update where the Division Bench of Bombay High Court in Vibhuti Amarnath Agrawal v State of Maharashtra had held that for admission to law colleges in Maharashtra,...
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Amicus Curiae Suggests Hiking Senior Citizen’s Pension To Rs 2,000 Per Month...
Prabhati Nayak MishraAmicus curiae Mathew Cherian, appointed by the Supreme Court in the matter of old age homes for senior citizens, has suggested uniform pension of Rs 2000 per person, creation of...
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SC Refuses To ‘Review’ Death Penalty On Man Who Raped 4-Yr-Old Child [Read...
Ashok KM Cumulative effect of the mitigating circumstances on one hand and the aggravating facts on the other, would be weighed for the ‘rarest of rare’ test, it said The Supreme Court has refused to...
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Advocate Moves SC Against Compulsory Aadhaar For Applying For APP Post [Read...
Prabhati Nayak MishraEven as the Supreme Court is yet to take a final call on the mandatory requirement of Aadhaar for various purposes by the authorities, an advocate has moved the apex court against...
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Mismanagement Of Wealth In Shri Padmanabhaswamy Temple: Amicus Seeks SIT...
Prabhati Nayak MishraSenior Advocate Gopal Subramanium, appointed by the Supreme Court as Amicus Curiae, has submitted a report before the Court about the dismal state of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in...
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As Government Seeks To Justify Aadhaar For IT Returns, More New Grounds...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe battle-lines are clearly drawn between the petitioners and the Union of India in the Supreme Court’s hearing of the challenges to Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, which...
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HIV+ Rape Victim Approaches SC Seeking Permission To Abort Foetus [Read Order]
Ashok KM We are concerned with saving the life of a destitute woman, the bench said. An HIV positive woman has approached the Supreme Court with a plea to permit her to abort her pregnancy. Earlier the...
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#NEET Judgment Leak: Disclose Action Taken On Complaint Against Former CJI...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Central Information Commission on Wednesday directed the Supreme Court Registry and the Department of Justice to disclose action taken on a complaint against former Chief Justice of...
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