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Justice Bela M. Trivedi, who was appointed as a Supreme Court Judge in 2021, became the first woman Judge from Gujarat High Court to be elevated to the Supreme Court and is a Limca Book of Records holder.
While Justice Bela M. Trivedi took a stern note of the actions of the errant advocates, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma accepted the unconditional apology.
“A right of an Advocate to appear for a party and to practice in the Courts is coupled with the duty to remain present in the Court at the time of hearing, and to participate and conduct the proceedings diligently, sincerely, honestly and to the best of his ability. Rights and duties are two sides of the same coin, and they are inherently connected with each other.”
“Though, the power of judicial review keeps a check and balance on the functioning of the public authorities and is exercised for better and more efficient and informed exercise of their powers, such power has to be exercised very cautiously keeping in mind that such exercise of power of judicial review may not lead to judicial overreach, undermining the powers of the statutory authorities”
“Consideration of two conditions mentioned in Section 45 is mandatory, and while considering the bail application, the said rigours of Section 45 have to be reckoned by the court to uphold the objectives of the PMLA.”
The husband and wife were married for about one and a half year, and due to continuous quarrels, the wife started living in her parental home along with their 6-month-old daughter at the time of the incident. During this period, the husband committed suicide.
The complaint alleging that the actor committed a rape in 2016, came in the wake of revelations made in Justice K. Hema Report detailing several instances of sexual abuse in the Malayalam film industry.
“This is one of the few orders we have come across in last few days passed by the High Court, in which, without deciding the matter on merits, the High Court has granted the bail to the accused, subject to the condition that he shall furnish the bail bonds after six months of the passing of the order.”
“There is a great sanctity attached to the proceedings conducted in the Court. No professional much less legal professional, is immune from being prosecuted for his/her criminal misdeeds.”
In 2020, a FIR was registered by the CBI, ACB, Kolkata in respect of alleged illegal excavation and theft of Coal taking place in the leasehold areas of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL). Eventually ED issued summons in 2021 to the Appellants seeking their presence and documents pertaining to the matter.
Without mincing any words, the Court stated that the accused had miserably failed to get himself discharged when he had filed the application under S. 227 CrPC; still however, he filed another vexatious application seeking modification of charge under Section 216 of CrPC to derail the criminal proceedings.
The case of fake signatures came before the Court, when the petitioner approached the Court in person, stating that he did not know either of the Advocates who were appearing on his behalf and that he came to know of the SLP filed in his name, when the Police Station served notice upon him.
Supreme Court said that the reservation for the Persons with disabilities has been treated as Horizontal Reservation i.e. the reservation under Clause (1) of Article 16, and not the Vertical reservation i.e. the reservation under Clause (4) of Article 16 of the Constitution of India.
The matter revolved around the Notification dated 29-05-2015 issued by the Central Government, containing instructions for the Framework for Revival and Rehabilitation of MSMEs.
“State has neither executive nor legislative power to sub-classify or sub-divide or re-group the castes, races or tribes specified as the “Scheduled Castes” in the Presidential List notified under Article 341. Under the guise of providing reservation or under the pretext of taking affirmative action for the weaker of the weakest sections of the society, the State cannot vary, nor tinker the Presidential List.”
In E.V. Chinnaiah v. State of A.P., (2005) 1 SCC 394, the Supreme Court five Judge Bench held that Scheduled Castes form homogenous classes and there cannot be any sub-division, and that such sub-classification of SC/STs is contrary to Article 341 of the Constitution.
Income Tax Authorities conducted a raid at DK Shivakumar’s house and allegedly recovered Rs.8,59,69,100/- and CBI registered an FIR for offence punishable under Section 13(1)(e) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Soumya Viswanathan was a journalist working with India Today when she was found dead in her car in Vasant Kunj in 2008
Justice Bela M. Trivedi, who was appointed as a Supreme Court Judge in 2021, is the first woman Judge from Gujarat High Court to be elevated to the Supreme Court and a Limca Book of Records holder.
Satyendar Jain was arrested in May 2022 pertaining to offences under PMLA.