Articles tagged with: Mukul Rohatgi

Phoenix, Khaitan get SC to stay NGT order for 100% CNG conversion of airport vehicles

Phoenix Legal obtained a stay, by the Supreme Court, on the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) order that had directed all vehicles plying at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to be converted to using only CNG as fuel.

JGLS student gang rape case: SC orders HC to conclude case within 5 months

The JGLS Sonepat student rape survivor may finally see an end to her five-year ordeal as the Supreme Court has now ordered the Punjab & Haryana high court to dispose of her appeal within five months, as reported by IANS.

SC: Will not tolerate continuing blackmail by JGLS rape convicts over nude pictures, demands iCloud password

The former JGLS Sonepat students, who were convicted of raping and blackmailing a fellow student had until now refused to share the password of an iCloud online storage account in which they had allegedly stored the victim’s nude photos, but the Supreme Court has now finally ordered them to disclose it, reported the Indian Express and others.

SC holds firm on Padmaavat ban against MP, Rajasthan, Karni Sena appeals • Rohatgi, Naik rep Viacom

The Supreme Court has dismissed all intervention applications filed by various organisations, including the Karni Sena, for intervention in the writ petition in which it had cleared the screening of the movie Padmaavat on 18 January.

Blow-by-blow fireworks in the SC Loya case today: Dave vs Salve & Rohatgi • CJI vs Jaising

Judge BH Loya’s mysterious death was finally heard today for nearly an hour by the Supreme Court, under the shadow of the 12 January press conference of the Famous Four Judges, as well as Justice Arun Mishra’s equally mysterious recusal from hearing the case, after passing an order on 16 January.

Clasis, Rohatgi, Datar win for Macquarie in SC vs AM Singhvi, Divan for ArcelorMittal

Clasis Law won in the Supreme Court for Australian lender Macquarie Bank whose money recovery suit against global steel giant ArcelorMittal’s loss-making unit Uttam Galva Steel, was dismissed in June by the National Company Law Tribunal as then reported by VC Circle . Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi ...

Read ED submission in SC to keep lawyer Rohit Tandon jailed: Laundered up to Rs 128 cr demonetised notes, won’t explain origin of cash

T&T Law founding partner Rohit Tandon, now in jail for nearly a year in one of the most high-profile arrests carried out in the wake of the government’s demonetisation drive in 2015, is now awaiting a final order of the Supreme Court over his bail plea in the money laundering case against him.

HSA wins back $168m for L&T from Punjab Power with Rohatgi & Vaidyanathan in SC [READ ORDER]

The Supreme Court directed the Punjab State Power Corporation (PSPCL) to pay Rs 1100 crores as refund to L&T subsidiary Nabha Power (NPL), relieving NPL from a potential loss of Rs 8000 crore over the next 22 years.

Karanjawala for Ryan murder accused in SC, gets bar associations to back-off from restraining legal representation

“The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the bar association of the Gurgaon district courts for passing a resolution calling upon lawyers to not defend the accused in the murder of a sevenyear-old student at Ryan International School. A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, warned local lawyers against preventing the advocates of the accused from appearing in court and defending them,” reported the Economic Times.

9 months & counting: T&T founder Rohit Tandon back in jail after brief bail, lines up SC appeal

T&T Law managing partner Rohit Tandon is back in jail, having surrendered to the authorities on 6 September after his short interim bail on compassionate grounds was not extended by the Supreme Court.

Legally Explained: SC challenge to Aadhaar so far, and how on Day 2 Shyam Divan infused new energy into the case that is NOT about privacy - or is it?

As the challenge to compulsory Aadhaar identification to file IT returns was heard by the Supreme Court for the second day today (27 April), the mood among the anti-Aadhaar activists has been upbeat.

Court Cuts: ‘Bloody’ makes Chandrachud J experience ‘lowest point in SC history’ • Misra J talks amicus Vibhishana • Gopal likens Sibal to Marc Antony

The hearing of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) reform case before Justice Dipak Misra-led bench this afternoon in Supreme Court room number 2, as expected, did not lead to any tangible outcome.

SC declines Bhushan writ that NaMo was paid cash: Sahara-Birla papers not enough evidence

Livemint ( @livemint ) tweeted: “SC throws out case alleging Narendra Modi took cash payments” SC throws out case alleging Narendra Modi took cash payments By Suchitra Mohanty New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a case brought by anti-corruption lawyer Prashant Bhushan that accused P...

Was AG Mukul Rohatgi allowed to advise a PSU directly without law ministry request? Big deal or a big deal?

Raghav Ohri ( @raghavohri0 ) tweeted: “ET Investigation: Attorney General flouts service Rule, says it’s “directory”. NO, it’s mandatory, holds ex-SC Judge” Did the top law officer of India violate a service rule? The rule requires all government law officers to advise ministries or public entities ...

Dipak Misra J shows little appetite for more controversy: SC declines BJP lawyer’s plea to make nat’l anthem mandatory in courts

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain the petition of BJP leader and lawyer Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, who seeking to get an order to make playing of the national anthem compulsory before court proceedings from the same bench that had on Wednesday passed a controversial order making the playing of the anthem in cinemas mandatory, reported PTI.

Can this ever happen in India? New Singapore attorney general is Allen Gledhill chief, corp lawyer Lucien Wong

“With his extensive experience in corporate law at the head of Singapore’s largest law firm, Mr Lucien Wong will provide a fresh perspective when he takes over as Attorney-General in January, lawyers said yesterday,” reported The Straits Times about the country’s “first A-G who has not spent time on the Bench or at the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC)”.

SC directs ‘for love of motherland’: Stop ‘wallowing’ in freedom, you must stand, all cinemas must play national anthem to instil ‘patriotism, nationalism’ [READ JUDGMENT]

A bench of justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy ordered that in line with states such as Maharashtra, all cinema halls in India must play the national anthem before movie screenings in order to “instill a sense of committed patriotism and nationalism” in citizens.

Katju feels humiliated by 'surgical' contempt strike & eviction from SC ‘like common vagabond’ by his ‘junior’ Gogoi (about whom he’d been quite rude)

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, together with justices PC Pant and UU Lalit, issued a contempt notice on retired Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju in a review petition in the Soumya murder case to which Gogoi had last month surprisingly invited Katju to argue in.

Court Cuts: When TN and Karnataka for once agreed over Cauvery, and bantered about illegitimate children

The Cauvery dispute is the most intractable of all the river water disputes, did you say? Think again.

Court Cuts: When Justice Gogoi emerged as King of Surprises, setting up a mystery encounter with Markandey Katju

It was a series of surprises wrapped in an enigma, so to speak. In the end, the King of Surprises, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, pretty much proved to those who assembled in Court 5 of the Supreme Court on 17 October that no one could beat him in the game of springing surprises.