Sahara City Homes Jaipur Project | Supreme Court asks Sahara Group of Companies to disclose personal assets
The tower in question was incomplete and there was no scope of construction to be completed within 6 months.
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This column will list all the case briefs on the decisions of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Verdict on Same Sex Marriage: Breakdown of the Agreements and Disagreements
In a verbose verdict running into 366 pages, the 5-judge Constitution Bench of Dr DY Chandrachud, CJI and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S. Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, PS Narasimha, JJ wrote 4 opinions on the Same Sex Marriage matter where they agreed on some points and disagreed on others.
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State has obligation to provide support persons to POCSO victims, which cannot be made optional: Supreme Court
Supreme Court directed NCPCR to formulate model guidelines after due consultation with the Central and State Governments for the States and Union Territories to frame their rules respecting the support persons under Section 39 of POCSO Act.
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‘Expertise and Merit are the criteria for Senior Advocates’ designation’; Know Why SC rejected plea against validity of S. 16 of Advocates Act
“There has been large growth in the legal profession of first- generation lawyers making their mark, some of them young ones, coming from National Law Schools and other prominent Law Schools”.
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Decoding Supreme Court three Judge bench verdict in 26-week pregnancy case
Supreme Court said that the delivery will be conducted by AIIMS at the appropriate time and the Union Government will bear all the medical costs for the delivery.
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‘Irretrievable break down of marriage’ not a straight-jacket formula for divorce under Article 142: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court considered an appeal seeking divorce for husband and wife aged 87 years and 82 years respectively, on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage.
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Rule 3(1)(a) of Electricity Rules and Proportionality Principle | Apply Weighted average method for proportional electricity consumption if captive user’s shareholding in CGP fluctuates: SC
The weighted average shareholding method is applied by taking average shareholding held by particular shareholder for the year for the purpose of calculating proportionate electricity required to be consumed by it in terms of the second proviso of Rule 3(1)(a).
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SC grants bail to accused in minor’s gang rape case considering the 5 years period spent in custody and slow progress of trial
Earlier, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant bail to the accused considering the seriousness of the offence.
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Know how the Question of abortion versus preterm delivery for unplanned pregnancy led to Supreme Court split verdict
A letter was received by ASG seeking clarification from the Court regarding whether foeticide can be done before termination process since the baby was viable, and that if that was not done, it would be a preterm delivery and not a foeticide.
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Family Planning | Know why the Supreme Court allowed termination of unplanned pregnancy at 26 weeks
The woman had adopted Lactational Amenorrhea Method (‘LAM’), a process which implies absence of menstruation due to continuing breast feeding as a contraceptive method.
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Wipro’s ‘Chandrika’ Soap | SC restrains Mariyas Soaps and Chemicals from using mark ‘Chandra’
Wipro Enterprises has a registered all India trade mark ‘Chandrika’ since 1976.
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Explained | Supreme Court verdict on principles relating to presumption and evidential burden under Ss. 138 & 139 of NI Act
“The accused has miserably failed to discharge his evidential burden, that fact will have to be taken to be proved by force of the presumption, without requiring anything more from the complainant”
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“Multiple inconsistencies in evidence”; Supreme Court acquits murder convicts after 10 years in prison
“When the testimonies of the eye-witnesses suffer from fatal flaws, to sustain conviction on the basis of such unreliable evidence would surely amount to miscarriage of justice”
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7-Judge Bench of Supreme Court all set to reconsider whether unstamped arbitration agreements are valid in law
Having regard to larger ramifications of NN Global case, the Supreme Court viewed that proceedings should be placed before a seven-judge bench to reconsider the correctness of the view by a five-judge bench.
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Why should grounds of arrest be furnished in writing by ED? SC explains constitutional and statutory mandate
“The very purpose of the constitutional and statutory protection would be rendered nugatory if the authorities concerned are permitted to merely read out or permit reading of the grounds of arrest, irrespective of their length and detail, and claim due compliance with the constitutional requirement under Article 22(1) and the statutory mandate under Section 19(1) of the PMLA”.
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‘Conclusion of Trial to take reasonable time’; SC grants bail to murder accused in custody for more than 4.5 years
The Court did not express anything on the merits of the case and released the accused considering the period in custody and reasonable time for conclusion of Trial.
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Can Karta sell HUF property without the consent of other joint family members? Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court clarified that “an HUF is capable of acting through its Karta or an adult member of the family in the management of the HUF property.”
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Trial not likely to be concluded soon; SC grants bail to NDPS accused after 6 years in Jail
The accused had spent nearly 6 years and 2 months in jail, which is more than half the period of punishment for the offences he was charged with.
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COVID-19 Limitation Period Suspension included outer limit of period to condone delay: Supreme Court
The appellants mainly averred that the further period of 90 days had not expired on the date of imposition of lockdown as on 23-03-2020.
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Child Custody| Supreme Court modifies Family Court’s order, allows father to meet child in mall instead of Court premises
Supreme Court said that the repeated visitation rights in the Court premises would also not be in the interest of the child as the environment during which the visitation rights are exercised would also matter.
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