SC Transfers Isha Foundation Case to Itself
Supreme Court stays Madras High Court order against Isha Foundation, Transfers the Petition From Madras HC to itself. Staying the order of the Madras High Court and transferring the case to itself, the Supreme Court bench presided by Chief Justice of India Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra on October 3rd, 2024, has […]
CJI Condemns Lawyer for Inquiring with Court Master About Order Contents
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud sternly condemned a lawyer for illegally inquiring with a Court Master about the contents of an order. According to the counsel appearing before the CJI, a few observations that were made in open court during an arbitration matter were not included in the final draft of the order. In response […]
SC Quashes High Court’s Order For Further Investigation Under Sec. 173(8) CrPC
The Supreme Court, on September 30, 2024, set aside the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court’s order that had directed further investigation in a 2013 murder case. The case, which centres on the murder of one Kumar, had led to an FIR being filed in 2013, followed by a series of legal battles and […]
SC Strikes Down Caste-Based Discrimination In Prisons Manuals
SC Strikes Down Caste-Based Discrimination in Prisons: Orders States to Amend Prison Manuals The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgement, set aside discriminatory provisions in the prison manuals of several states that allowed segregation of prisoners and distribution of work based on caste. A bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. […]
SC to Rule on Caste-Based Discrimination in Prison Manuals Today
On October 3, 2024 the Supreme Court is set to deliver a significant judgement on a petition that challenges the caste-based discrimination allegedly entrenched in the prison manuals of various states. The bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra, will pronounce the verdict, which […]
Bombay HC Upholds Death Sentence
Upholding a sentence of the trial court sentencing a man to death in a ‘rarest of rare’ case the Bombay HC division bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan pronounced their judgment handing capital punishment to a convict who, on August 28th 2017, killed his mother in what was delineated as a […]
SC Criticises PIL Against Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi
On September 30, 2024 the Supreme Court took a strong stance against a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that named former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi as a respondent and sought an in-house inquiry against him for dismissing an earlier plea related to a service dispute. The bench, led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud […]
Karnataka HC : Orders Ola Cabs To Pay Rs 5 Lakh For Sexual Assault On Woman Commuter
An amount of Rs five lakh as compensation and an additional sum of Rs 50,000 as a cover for litigation expenses was ordered to be paid to a woman by ANI Technologies, the parent company of OLA Cabs who were hauled up by the High Court of Karnataka’s single-judge bench of Justice M G S […]
Sadguru’s Isha Foundation Under Scrutiny – Madras HC Asks State To Provide Details of Criminal Cases
"We want to know why a person who had given his daughter in marriage and made her settle well in life is encouraging the daughters of others to tonsure their heads and live the life of a hermitess. That is the doubt’’. These were observations of the division bench of Justice S M Subramanium and […]
Karnataka HC Stays Probe Against Nirmala Sitharaman In Electoral Bond Case
The Karnataka High Court on 30 September granted interim relief by staying the investigation into a First Information Report (FIR) against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others, in a case involving allegations of extortion related to electoral bonds. The stay order, delivered by Justice M. Nagaprasanna, is effective until the next hearing, scheduled for […]