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On April 28, the Supreme Court sat to pass a stay order on Calcutta High Court’s Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s order directing SC’s Secretary General to produce the transcript of his “controversial” interview, wherein he had made remarks against Abhishek Banerjee in relation to the Teachers Recruitment Scam case, which was pending before him
A party to a proceeding cannot be permitted to challenge the Award and abide by it at its own free will; garner benefit from it; get the opposite party to effectively alter its position; and then press its challenge after the passage of a considerable length of time.
Supreme Court expressed that the legislature would not have intended two entries for self-safe commodity making one taxable and the other exempted from tax.
Supreme Court held that the Punjab and Haryana High Court was not right in setting aside the judgment of the First Appellate Court and restoring the judgment of the Trial Court, granting the respondent compassionate appointment in Bank of Baroda.
The Court also said that the right to repurchase can always be assigned and the contract containing such condition shall be enforceable, with only exception that such a right should not be personal in nature.
Justice Krishna Murari, who has been serving as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, retires after an extensive career of 4.5 years. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he had served as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and the Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
This report covers the Supreme Court's Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1951 on requirements of adoption under Hindu Law.
The Court reprimanded the DSP and said that a DSP, ought to know that in terms of Section 162 of Cr.PC, no statement made by a person to a police officer in the course of any investigation, which is reduced to writing, is required to be signed by the person making the statement.
“A prominent market in the heart of the capital city is attacked and we may point out that it has not been dealt with the required degree of promptitude and attention. To our great dismay, we are forced to observe that this may be due to the involvement of influential persons.”
The makers and producers of the Amazon web-series ‘Tandav’ were accused of hurting religious sentiments and outraging religious beliefs by inserting controversial dialogues.
The Seven Supreme Court collegium resolutions were passed on 05-07-2023.
Supreme Court also considered the fact that the inter-faith couple had jointly approached the High Court seeking police protection.
The Supreme Court clarified that appointments made after the instant judgment would be limited to vacant posts notified under communication of 2006 and could not be extended to vacancies which arose thereafter.
Supreme Court Collegium took note of factors like Seniority, Merit, Integrity, Diversity & Inclusion while recommending the names of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice S Venkatanarayana Bhatti for elevation.
The allocation of quantities of Raw Pet-Coke (‘RPC’), a residue of the leftover from the refining of petroleum products and sand crude as well as other heavy oils was in issue in the present appeals.
The funds are needed for the construction of a Regional Rapid Transit System that will connect the national capital with Rajasthan and Haryana.
Supreme Court concurred with the Punjab and Haryana High Court that incriminating circumstances were not proved beyond reasonable doubt and chain of evidence was not complete to interfere with a degree of certainty of accused having committed the crime.
The month of June was a vacation month for the Supreme Court. The Vacation Benches, nevertheless, assembled to pass some orders in important and urgent matters. The retiring judges of the Supreme Court also delivered some important judgments. This roundup covers reports on these judgments and orders and some special posts on the Judges, the Never reported Judgments, interesting cases from SCC Archives, and more.
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Merely because a provision is described as a clarification or an explanation, the Court is not bound by the said statement in the statute itself but must proceed to analyse the nature of the amendment.