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SC gives 10 years’ time to Telecos to pay AGR dues

Supreme Court: Asking Telecom Operators to make the payment of 10% of the total AGR dues as by 31.3.2021, the 3-judge bench

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | Mere framing of charge alone is not sufficient ground for grant of bail, application dismissed

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Harnaresh Singh Gill, J., rejected the bail application filed by the applicant-accused in connection with the FIR

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NHRC notice to Uttar Pradesh over reported rape and murder of an 18-year old Dalit girl

The National Human Rights Commission, India has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that an 18-year old Dalit girl was found

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NGT | Pursuing stale claims and multiplicity proceedings in no manner sub-serves public interest; Goa Govt. to finally notify an area of 46.11 sq km as ‘private forest’

National Green Tribunal (NGT): A Division Bench of Justice Sheo Kumar Singh (Judicial Member) and Satyawan Singh Garbyal (Expert Member) while addressing

Case Briefs Supreme Court Roundups

Supreme Court Monthly Roundup – August 2020

CONSTITUTION BENCH Accused under NDPS Act not entitled to acquittal as a blanket rule merely because the complainant is the investigating officer

Case Briefs High Courts

MP HC | Rape accused incapable of performing the act as per medical diagnosis; Court grants bail

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Vijay Kumar Shukla, J., allowed the bail application filed by the applicant-accused in connection with the FIR registered

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLAT | Whether provisions of Limitation Act, 1963 vide S. 238A of I&B Code, 2016 will be applicable to all NPA cases or not? Tribunal answers

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT): Full Bench of Justice Bansi Lal Bhat (Acting Chairperson) and Justice Anant Bijay Singh (Member, judicial) and

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NHRC decides to refer jailed poet-activist Vara Vara Rao’s medical report sent by Maharashtra Government to its expert panel

The National Human Rights Commission decided to get examined the medical report of Vara Vara Rao, sent by the Government of Maharashtra

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | What may amount to “recce”? Court discusses while granting bail

Bombay High Court: Sarang V. Kotwal, J., granted bail to an accused observing that his act by itself does not amount to recce.

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution/Larger Benches)

Accused under NDPS Act not entitled to acquittal as a blanket rule merely because the complainant is the investigating officer: 5-Judge Bench

Supreme Court: The 5-judge Constitution bench of Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, MR Shah and S. Ravindra Bhat, JJ has held

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | Will the Act of demanding repayment of money bring a case within the meaning of S. 306 IPC? HC throws light on ingredients of abetment to suicide

Gujarat High Court: Gita Gopi, J., while addressing an issue with regard to abetment to suicide held that in accordance with the ingredients

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | Can a transferee claim that he being the transferee of an establishment is not liable to pay dues accruing before the transfer under ESI Act? HC explains

Calcutta High Court: Ravi Krishan Kapur, J., while addressing an issue pertaining to Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, observed that, The ESI Act

Case Briefs High Courts

J&K HC | “No doubt gravity of offence is relevant factor for deciding bail application but period of detention is also pertinent factor”: Bail granted to accused under NDPS Act

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Rajnesh Oswal, J. allowed the application and enlarged the applicants on bail. The applicants in the instant

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Party to contract displaying repeated non-exercise of right to appoint arbitrator shows waiver of the same by conduct

Karnataka High Court: John Michael Cunha, J. disposed of the petition by appointing a sole arbitrator to adjudicate the said matter in

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Here’s what SC said while sentencing Prashant Bhushan to a fine of Rupee 1 for his contemptuous tweets [DETAILED REPORT]

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari, JJ has sentenced advocate Prashant Bhushan with a fine

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution/Larger Benches)

States, and not MCI, have power to make reservation for in-service candidates in Post Graduate Medical Course; Constitution bench holds

Supreme Court: The 5-judge Constitution bench of Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose, JJ has held that

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Quashing of FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat foreign nationals: Justice Sewlikar gives reasoning for the judgment; Differs on observations of malice in State action

Bombay High Court: M.G. Sewlikar, J., in reference to the judgment pronounced by this Court on 21-08-2020, with regard to the quashing of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

NGT can’t pass a blanket direction to debar vehicles without valid PUC Certificate from being supplied fuel

Supreme Court: In the case where the National Green Tribunal directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to ensure that no dealer and/or

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | Right to practise and propagate religion is subject to public order, morality and health; Permission to lift prohibition on performing Moharram rituals, declined

Pandemic is spreading like wild fire, despite harsh lockdowns. We are standing naked at the shore and don’t know when the huge

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | Mental cruelty is no less than physical cruelty, wife causing mental cruelty to husband valid ground for dissolution of marriage; Court dismisses appeal

Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench of Ravi Malimath and Narayan Singh Dhanik, JJ., dismissed and appeal which was filed aggrieved by