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SC summons top Mumbai cop for non-issuance of license to dance bars [Read Order]
LiveLaw News Network The Supreme Court today pulled up the Mumbai Police for not taking steps to open dance bars by issuing them licences as per its order six months back and also issuing a new...
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SC fumes at abuse of Judicial process by the rich and powerful; imposes 25...
Ashok KM Describing a case as “classic example of the abuse of the judicial process by unscrupulous litigants with money power”, the Supreme Court has imposed Rs. 25 Lakhs costs on each of the parties...
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Kerala Munsiff-Magistrate Fiasco; No Appointments from 2013 List for Current...
LiveLaw News Network Supreme Court of India Today has dismissed an Application as withdrawn, filed by High Court of Kerala in Malik Mazhar Sultan & Anr. v. U.P. Public Service Commission, seeking...
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Centre makes U-turn on Kohinoor Diamond; says Govt stand not yet conveyed to...
LiveLaw News NetworkA day after the Solicitor General of India had submitted before the Supreme Court that India cannot ask UK to return the Kohinoor diamond as it was gifted to East India Company by...
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SC pulls up states for not removing illegal roadside religious structures
LiveLaw News Network The Supreme Court has pulled up the states for not removing encroachments in public places like illegal religious structures and remarked that it is an insult to God to have them...
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Even a wrong order should not be visited with Adverse Remarks against Judge;...
Ashok KM In a small but noteworthy order, the Supreme Court, expunging the adverse remarks in a High Court order against a District Judge, said that even a wrong order by a Judge should not be visited...
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Take immediate steps to ensure that there are sufficient flights from Delhi...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today directed the Director General of Civil Aviations to take immediate steps to ensure that there are sufficient flights from Delhi to Shimla. A bench comprising...
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Breaking; #Uttarakhand: HC strikes down Presidents Rule, Rawat restored as...
Apoorva Mandhani The High Court of Uttarakhand on Thursday set aside the Presidents Rule imposed in the State and ordered for a floor test, to be conducted on April 29. “In the present case…article 356...
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Gujarat HC refuses to suspend the Conviction of BJP MP; Consequence of...
Apoorva MandhaniRefusing to suspend the conviction of a BJP MP, the Gujarat High Court on Monday observed that the consequence of disqualification which would follow as a result of such conviction...
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‘Call Drops as Telcos not investing despite earning Rs 250 Cr a day’: TRAI
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today defended before the Supreme Court the decision to charge telecom companies for call drops alleging that a cartel of 4-5 telecom firms...
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“Banks have no right over info on my overseas assets”: Mallya to SC
LiveLaw News Network “Recent actions of the central government confirm I am being persecuted needlessly and wrongly prosecuted”: Affidavit in Supreme Court. Two weeks after the apex court asked him to...
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SC upholds Government’s LNG Pool Pricing policy [Read Judgment]
Ashok KM The Supreme Court has upheld the Government policy decision to pool the price of Re-Gasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG). Apex Court bench comprising of Justices V. Gopala Gowda and U.U....
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Centre to SC; Uttarakhand HC exceeded jurisdiction while quashing President’s...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Centre today moved the Supreme Court against the Uttarakhand High Court judgment quashing the declaration of President’s Rule in the state. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi made...
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Imputing Communal Overtones to HC sesquicentennial celebrations and to a...
Ashok KM Allahabad HC lambasted a Lawyer who filed PIL complaining against Sufi Songs, Non Veg food in sesquicentennial celebrations. Food preferences of an individual cannot determine the nature of...
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Breaking; SC Stays Uttarakhand HC Order quashing President’s Rule till April...
LiveLaw News Network A Two Judge Bench of Supreme Court has just stayed the Uttarakhand High Court Order quashing President's Rule in the State. The Court has ordered that Centre shall not revoke...
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Visvesvraya Technological University not entitled to exemption from Income...
Ashok KM The Supreme Court has held that Visvesvraya Technological University (VTU) , a University in Karnataka which exercises control over all Government and Private Engineering Colleges within the...
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Human Rights Commission orders not merely recommendatory; State duty bound to...
Ashok KM In a recent decision in State of U.P vs. NHRC, the Allahabad High Court has held that the State is duty bound to comply with the orders of Human Right Commissions, in the absence of it being...
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Breaking; Allahabad HC quashes IIT BHU decision to sack Magsaysay Awardee...
Ashok KM Allahabad High Court has quashed the resolution of Banaras Hindu University terminating the contract of Magsaysay award winner Prof. Sandeep Pandey as Visiting Professor alleging activities...
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Protests greet Chhattisgarh government’s dismissal of Sukma’s Chief Judicial...
LiveLaw Research TeamOn 14 April, the Chhattisgarh government dismissed Sukma's Chief Judicial Magistrate Prabhakar Gwal. A 2006 batch judicial officer, Gwal, belongs to the Dalit community and has...
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Seven interesting things about Keshvananda Bharati case – The legend lives on!
Namit Saxena43 years ago on this very date, 13 eminent judges of the Supreme Court assembled to pronounce the judgment on retirement day for Chief Justice Sikri in Keshvananda Bharati after having...
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