Articles tagged with: P Sathasivam
SCOI Analysis: What could Naz's section 377 curative constitution bench look like and what can it do?
Even as the Supreme Court is yet to upload its order referring the curative petitions filed by Naz Foundation and others to the five Judge Constitution bench, a debate has already begun over the scope and composition of the bench among observers.
SG tells SC death penalty constitution bench: No further mercy pleas after President's rejection
The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that after a mercy petition by a death row convict is rejected by the President, it cannot be moved afresh before the governor of a state unless there were entirely new grounds. Telling this to the Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...
Executioner-in-Chief? The SC's ever-changing dance with death under HL Dattu & other justices
Sathasivam guide to journalism: No reason to 'prevent' media from court reporting (if journos always read judgments first)
Kerala Governor and former Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam today told journalists to ensure that they report court cases after reading the judgments. “First get the copy of the judgment… these days in the Supreme Court, it’s available on the internet after two or three hours. Then read the judgm...
Lodha bids farewell, answers (nearly) all media questions (but not on Sathasivam)
In apparent disapproval of his predecessor P Sathasivam accepting the Kerala governor’s post, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha Friday said that no CJI or Supreme Court or high court judge should accept any government position or occupy a constitutional office at least for some time after retiring. In...
Gov't throws bench a bone? P Sathasivam becomes first ex-CJI governor
Ignored by Sathasivam, Bombay lawyers write to new CJI about CK Prasad leapfrog
The Bombay Lawyers Association wrote to Chief Justice of India RM Lodha about an incident alleged by senior counsel Dushyant Dave in March about Supreme Court Justice CK Prasad hearing and deciding on a property matter listed before another bench himself: “We expected some response to our letter but...
Sathasivam the Humanitarian: 3 reasons we’ll miss the former CJI (and 1 question mark)
As good as it gets? Court Witness’ CJI report card on Sathasivam the Safe, a remarkable Chief Justice
Satisfied with own performance: The Hindu talks to CJI Sathasivam on eve of retirement
The Hindu ’s senior court reporter J Venkatesan has interviewed Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow from his post. In the hour-long interview, excerpts of which were published by the paper, Sathasivam recounted how he rose to the highest judicial office in the country fro...
Last day in office: CJI avoids one controversy for another, forms constitution bench on Rajiv Gandhi killers' release [JUDGMENT LINKED]
A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow to make way for Justice RM Lodha as CJI, said that a constitution bench will look into whether the commuted death sentence of the seven conspiring assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, should m...
Madhava Menon + 2 others appointed by CJI to draft guidlines on 'political' government ads [JUDGMENT]
The founder director of NLSIU Bangalore, NR Madhavan Menon, ex Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan and senior counsel Ranjit Kumar have been appointed by the Supreme Court to form a committee regulating government departments advertising with an “obvious political message”. Chief Justice of ...
Sex harassment at SC: Apex court bans advocate for 6 months
Next Chief Lodha will hear oral arguments in curative Section 377 petition next week
A Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu, and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya has agreed to orally hear the Naz Foundation’s curative petition to re-examine the apex court’s earlier re-criminalisation of homosexual and other sexual “intercou...
SC amends law to equalise advocate-judges’ pension with other judges
The Supreme Court has ordered a retrospective amendment in the High Court Judges Rules 1956, to standardise all retired higher judiciary judges’ pension. The SC has also directed those states which have not yet extended various post-retirement benefits to retired higher judiciary judges, to do so within six months.
Has CJI de facto abolished death penalty? In swift 8-page order Sathasivam follows own precedent, commutes Bhullar noose to life
A Supreme Court bench of CJI P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, commuted the death penalty of 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment, citing its earlier Shatrughan Chauhan decision.
SC 'implores' state to protect women in suo motu kangaroo-court gang-rape ruling
The Supreme Court has said that the police should take action in the gang-rape of a woman in a village, which was allegedly ordered by a village panchayat as punishment for her affair. The bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam was apparently able to do little substantively in th...
Crap law: CJI rules on much-flouted manual human waste disposal legislation
A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam has ruled in a writ petition on people disposing human waste manually from dry toilets, granting Rs 10 lakh compensation each to families of manual scavengers who died in sewers, manholes or septic tanks since 1993, after the ...
Breaking: Read SC order slamming UP gov for Muzaffarnagar riots negligence
\"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...