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“When procedural law doesn’t preclude the investigating agency from arresting a person in relation to a different offence while he is already under custody in some previous offence, the accused too cannot be precluded of his statutory right to apply for anticipatory bail only on the ground that he is in custody in relation to a different offence.”
The issue in the instant case revolved around whether a dealer or the manufacturer can be construed as an ‘owner’ vis-a-vis fixation of tortious liability for payment of compensation, especially when the driver and deceased both were employees of the manufacturer.
Supreme Court said that as more and more women join the work force, the nation cannot wait for another rape for things to change on the ground.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences is all set to conduct the exam on 11-08-2024 in two shifts across 416 centres in 170 cities pan-India.
“Courts may direct the cancellation of an examination or approve such cancellation by the competent authority only if it is not possible to separate the tainted candidates from the untainted ones.”
“Some of them are from District Judiciary retiring with a pension of only Rs 15,000/-. We are the guardians of the District Judiciary. As guardians of the district judiciary, what do we do?”
“Royalty is in the nature of a tax or an exaction. It is not merely a contractual payment but a statutory levy under Section 9 of the MMDR Act.”
Supreme Court requested the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court to assign the hearing of the petition under Section 34 to a Judge other than the Judge who heard and passed the impugned order.
Supreme Court said that authorizing the Central Government to lay down the terms of mining leases and grant approval to concessions, the MMDR Act seeks to ensure that there is uniformity in the terms for working of mines and extraction of minerals.
“The payments made to the Government cannot be deemed to be a tax merely because the statute provides for their recovery as arrears”.
The imposition of such a requirement was manifestly proper, as judicial officers are required to appreciate the evidence in the State’s language.
The Supreme Court refused to grant interim relief at this stage.
This matter was the oldest pending nine-judge Bench case before the Supreme court. The Bench had reserved its judgment in the matter on 14-03-2024
On 22-07-2024 the Supreme Court has asked the Director of IIT, Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee to give their opinion regarding the correct answer to a multiple-choice question of NEET-UG 2024, for which the NTA awarded marks for two options.
Supreme Court directed NTA to complete this exercise till Saturday noon.
In National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, the Court directed the Centre and State Governments to treat transgender persons as ‘Socially and Educationally Backward Classes’ of citizens and extend reservation in admission in educational institutions and for public appointments.
“Legitimate expectation, jurisprudentially, was a device created to maintain a check on arbitrariness in state action. It does not extend to and cannot govern the operation of contracts between private parties, wherein the doctrine of promissory estoppel holds the field.”
The Telangana High Court’s order quashing the cheating case against BMW was upheld and the direction for the replacement of the old defective vehicle with a new vehicle was set aside.
Justice Manoj Misra is the sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in February 2023 and has formerly served as a Judge in the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
In Anshuman Singh Rathore v. Union of India, 2024 SCC OnLine All 857, U.P. Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 was held as unconstitutional for being violative of the principle of secularism, Articles 14, 21 and 21-A of the Constitution and violative of Section 22 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.