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SC Seeks Undertaking From BCCI On Reforms Compliance; After Board Defiant,...
LiveLaw News Network “See if you had sought time (to implement reforms) it was fine. We are not on the question of time frame but this defiant attitude…cricket season or no season more important is...
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Supreme Court Pulls Up Delhi HC And Registry [Read Order]
LiveLaw News Network After being pulled up twice for latches in conducting the Delhi Judicial Services Examination, once again the Delhi High Court and its registry were pulled up by the Supreme Court....
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Breaking: Forcing Husband To Get Separated From His Parents, Amounts To...
Ashok KM Normally, no husband would tolerate this and no son would like to be separated from his old parents and other family members, who are also dependent upon his income, the Bench said. The...
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Now A Plea In SC To Shift Shahabuddin To Any Jail Outside Bihar
LiveLaw News NetworkA week after the Supreme Court cancelled Mohd Shahabuddin’s bail given by the Patna High Court, a fresh plea has been filed in the apex court seeking the transfer of the...
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Courts Can’t Exercise ‘Judicial Discretion’ Against Statute Or Rules: SC...
Ashok KM Judicial discretion can be exercised by a court only when there are two or more possible lawful solutions, the Bench observed. The Supreme Court in Anurag Kumar Singh & Ors. Vs. State of...
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Take A Progressive Stand On Entry Of Women : SC To Haji Ali Dargah Trust
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today orally observed to Bombay's Haji Ali Dargah trust to take a progressive stand on the access of women into the inner sanctum sanctorum of the famous shrine. A...
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SC Strikes Down Words ‘Adult Male’ From The Definition Of “Respondent” Under...
Ashok KM The classification of “adult male person” clearly subverts the doctrine of equality, by restricting the reach of a social beneficial statute meant to protect women against all forms of...
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SC Says It Will Correct Itself Even If There Is A Slight Mistake In...
LiveLaw Research TeamIn an open court hearing on the review petition filed by State of Kerala and Sumathi, mother of Soumya, against the judgment acquitting Govindaswamy for the murder of Soumya, but...
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SC Stays Patna HC Order Which Quashed Bihar Liquor Ban
LiveLaw News Network Nitish Kumar government secured a major relief from the Supreme Court today when it stayed the operation of the September 30 Patna High Court judgement which quashed the state's...
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SC Bars BCCI From Giving Funds To State Associations Unwilling To Reform...
LiveLaw News NetworkCracking the whip on the cash-rich BCCI, the Supreme Court today restrained it from disbursing extra funds to 25 State associations till they accepted the Justice Lodha Committee...
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SC Bench Split Over Prescribing Of Minimum Marks In District Judge’s...
Ashok KM Yet again, divergent views emanated from the Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice R. Banumathi in the matter of challenge against prescribing minimum marks for...
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Centre Urges SC To Abolish Triple Talaq, Polygamy [Read Affidavit]
LiveLaw News Network “Validity of practices like triple talaq and polygamy needs to be seen in the light of gender justice. They go against the principle of gender equality and are unfair, unreasonable...
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No Commercial Release Of Genetically Modified (GM) Mustard Till October 17:...
Vidushi SahaniGovernment of India has submitted before the Supreme Court that no release of Genetically Modified Organisms shall take place till 17.10.2016 because the Government has sought views from...
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Law Commission Seeks Public Opinion On Uniform Civil Code
Apoorva Mandhani The Law Commission of India has sought public opinion on the exercise of revision and reform of family laws, in view of Article 44 of the Constitution of India which envisions a...
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Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Ashok KMEx-Policeman Accused Of Killing Wife The Supreme Court acquitted an ex-police constable, who was convicted by the trial court and high court under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and...
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New three-Judge SC Bench to hear Cauvery water dispute on October 18
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court has reportedly constituted a new three-Judges Bench to hear the disputes relating to sharing of Cauvery river water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The new Bench...
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‘Class Action Suits’ Under Consumer Protection Act Can Be Filed For The...
Ashok KMThe National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held that a complaint under Section 12 (1)(c) of the Consumer Protection (CP) Act can be filed only on behalf of or for the...
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SC Rejects AAP Leader Ashish Khetan’s Plea To Decriminalise ‘Insult Of...
Ashok KM The Supreme Court recently dismissed a writ petition by journalist and Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashish Khetan, challenging the constitutionality of Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code that...
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PIL Battles Involve Much More Than What Meets The Eye
LiveLaw Research TeamAmong the many anecdotes which Nandini Sundar narrates in her latest well-researched book, the readers will surely find this amusing : Every time the case she filed against Salwa...
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Strange Ideas Of Justice Dave
Justice Markandey KatjuThe ideas of Justice Anil Dave, the second senior most judge in the Supreme Court are, to say the least, strange. Consider the following: He gave a public statement that the Gita...
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