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SC expresses preference for cricketer like Sunil Gavaskar as BCCI chief after slamming Srinivasan
Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik said today: “In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president.” Yesterday the court said that N Srinivasan’s continuing to stick on as the current BCCI board chairman was...
Court Witness in Mumbai Mirror on Sahara Subrata: \"The smell of dragonfire hangs deep in Delhi.\"
Legally India Supreme Court postcard writer and tweeting advocate Court Witness’ column on Subrata Roy: “The Supreme Court dragon has woken and it is annoyed.” [Mumbai Mirror]
HC sends sessions judge back to school to learn law
Gujarat High Court Justice Anant Dave ordered Nandiad sessions judge B B Pathak to go back to the judicial academy for a “training session is to be scheduled with regard to powers to be exercised under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure” (anticipatory bail), which the judge had flubbed in...
SC won't back down v government on its order to ferret out black money abroad
The Supreme Court rejected the government’s plea to undo its judgment asking for a special investigation team to probe black money stashed abroad in a PIL that was first filed and won by senior counsel Ram Jethmalani. Anil Divan represented Jethmalani, while Mohan Parasaran argued for the government...
SC holidays on 10th, 14th April for elections, Ambedkar birthday, decrees Chief
The Supreme Court and its registry will be closed on Thursday 10 April and Monday 14 April 2014 because of the general elections and Dr BR Ambedkar’s birthday respectively, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has announced in notices on the SC website Ambedkar birthday notice [ General elections notice...
Pharma cos sell condoms at 100% mark-up over mandated ceiling
The Delhi High Court’s acting Chief Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sidharth Mridul were told by the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) that pharma companies sold condoms at “100 percent more than the ceiling price of Rs6.56 per condom even after its inclusion in the” Drug Price Control ...
Read possibly most expensive bail order ever: SC sets Sahara Subrata bail at Rs 5,000 cr cash + Rs 5,000 cr SEBI guarantee
#InternJudge adjourned to CJI Lodha tenure as amicus Fali recommends sex harass investigation procedure for current and ex-judges
Breaking: Read SC order slamming UP gov for Muzaffarnagar riots negligence
UP government was negligent in failing to prevent Muzaffarnagar riots but needn't be probed: SC
The Supreme Court said that the Uttar Pradesh government failed to protect the fundamental rights of Muzaffarnagar residents, of whom 60 died in communal riots last year. While the apex court said all those responsible, irrespective of political affiliation, should be arrested, the bench stopped sho...
\"After two wasted years, Sathasivam realizes that Kapadia was, after all, right about the Registry\": @CourtWitness1
“After two wasted years, Sathasivam realizes that Kapadia was, after all, right about the Registry,” tweeted CourtWitness. Livelaw reported that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sathasivam said at an AOR-hosted function yesterday that the registry was not listing matters correctly by allowing lawyers to...
Government servants banned from GMail, external email for security reasons
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, filed an affidavit with the Delhi high court that the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) convened to ban the use of external email services for government staff to ensure security [The Hindu]
16-year chambers waitlist drives Deepak Khosla to park chambers-bus outside of court
12 April SC Lok Adalat postponed, TBC
The second national lok adalat in the Supreme Court, which was scheduled for 12 April 2014, has been postponed, with the new date to be announced shortly [SC notification]
DHCBA meets today under Rajiv Khosla: Reverse DVD harassment, publicise ‘suspicious judgments’, free lawyer parking, valets & more...
Sahara promises SC it will pay everything by 2015
Sahara says it will pay Rs 2,500 crore in three days, three instalments of Rs 3,500 cr each at the end of June, Sept and Dec, and Rs 7,000 crore by 31 March 2015. The new proposal totals Rs 20,000, which would be Rs 3,000 crore more than its earlier proposal, as the company’s chief Subrata Roy is st...
Supreme Court tells 'nauseating' BCCI chief N Srinivasan to step down (or else)
The Supreme Court has told the cricket body’s boss N Srinivasan to step down as board chief so that the IPL betting and match-fixing could be investigated properly, with Justice AK Patnaik saying it was “nauseating” that he continued and would have to go if cricket were to be cleaned: “Why is Sriniv...
SC won't cancel Unitech 2G accused's bail, despite CBI recording of him trying to influence prosecutor
Justice HL Dattu said that it was not appropriate at this stage to interfere with the bail the court granted in November 2011 for Sanjay Chandra, despite the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) approaching the court claiming Chandra was “materially interfering” and trying to influence the investig...
SC re-throws spanner into government Aadhar Card works: Not mandatory!
A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Justice BS Chauhan reiterated that the government must not imply that Aadhar cards are mandatory to take advantage of any government services. “I received lot of letters which say Aadhar card is mandatory despite court orders. One letter said his marriage is n...
Bangalore judges to be given 40 iPhones worth Rs 16 lakh
The Karnataka high court in Bangalore has floated a tender to buy 40 Apple iPhone 5Cs for its judges to use. While the smartphones are the lowest end phones that the US-based company makes, they still retail for around Rs 40,000 each (and ironically are not compatible with two recently-launched Andr...