Articles tagged with: Amitava Roy
SC declines bail plea for Somnath Bharti; Gopal Subramanium gets CJI to open his 'heart' despite Rohatgi
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Lipika Mitra, the estranged wife of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti whether she was inclined to join mediation efforts as offered by her husband to resolve all issues between them. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy issu...
New writ asks SC: Please tell Gov’t to stop Attorneys General (ie Rohatgi) from appearing for private parties?
Should it be directed to the Government of India not to give permission to the Attorney General for India to appear for private parties against the state and its instrumentalities? This is the question which a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy would be faced with, when a PIL seeking such a direction would be called for hearing before them.
SC rejects Prashant Bhushan plea for Caravan to transfer Essar 'SLAPP' to Delhi
A Supreme Court bench of justices Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy declined a transfer petition from Ahmedabad city civil court to Delhi in the Rs 250 crore defamation case launched by Essar against Caravan magazine and others, as first reported by Legally India in August . Mint reported: Lawyer Prashan...
SC gives CBI 3 weeks to figure out Vyapam scam case takeover
The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Central Bureau of Investigation three weeks’ time to take over all the cases relating to the Vyapam scam and complete the appointment of public prosecutors to lead prosecution of its cases before the trial court. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Kurian ...
'Incompetent, inefficient or corrupt'? 'Rigged' Medical Council of India (MCI) election under SC scanner [SCOI REPORT]
Ex-Medical Council of India (MCI) president Dr Ketan Desai is facing a Supreme Court probe into all manner of allegations into the future of the profession’s regulator.
CJI Dattu gets yet another chance at Surender Koli death penalty in UP appeal vs Allahabad HC commutation
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Nithari killings’ convict Surender Koli on an Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking restoration of death sentence in Rimpa Haldar case - one of the 14 cases of rape and killings in the village in Noida bordering Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...
AIPMT 2015 paper leak lawyer Vaibhav Choudhary explains why Monday’s SC judgment may cancel medical entrance exam
SC slams Rajasthan for displaying 'helplessness' in widening NHAI expressway
The Supreme Court today chided the Rajasthan government for displaying “state of helplessness” in carrying out a high court direction to facilitate widening of the Delhi-Jaipur highway. The widening of the highway is held up due to a ‘bavadi’ (stepwell) and ‘samadhi’ (memorial of Baba Balnath. The R...
After months of gossip, SC collegium inducts Orissa HC chief Amitava Roy to apex court
Justice Amitava Roy was Friday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court. With the elevation of Roy, who was chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the strength of the apex court has gone up to 29 against a sanctioned strength of 31 judges. Justice Roy will have a tenure of three years. Coming from ...