Articles tagged with: RM Lodha
Swatanter Kumar to tell SC why intern case should stay in Delhi, as J Manmohan Singh back in HC
The Supreme Court told KK Venugopal, the senior counsel for former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is currently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), that Kumar should respond to an apex court transfer petition within four weeks, which was filed by one of his former interns who a...
CJI wants Gopal Subramanium persuaded to prosecute coalgaters
Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who recently withdrew from the process to become a Supreme Court judge after government leaks about his suitability, should be the special public prosecutor in the Coalgate scam cases, reported the PTI . Lodha, who had...
CJI: Gov’t laws responsible for perception of judges chasing post-retirement tribunal jobs
“Daring” the government to do away with laws requiring tribunals to be headed by judicial members chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that it is these laws that create a public perception that retired judges are “running and running and running after tribunals”, reported the Economic Times . ...
CJI Lodha asked Gopal Subramanium to undo resignation, Gopal declined
During the retirement function of Justice BS Chauhan, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that he had requested Gopal Subramanium to withdraw his resignation from the Supreme Court bench elevation process, reported the Hindustan Times . However, the senior counsel wrote a “30-word regret lett...
CJI Lodha’s next move: SC sets up 2 permanent miscellaneous benches
SCBA 'open to deliberations' on CJI's 365 day courts, suggests banning strikes & 5 other pendency fixes
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), through president Pravin Parekh, wrote to Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha suggesting that in his proposed scheme of 365-days working courtrooms, lawyers be consulted before listing their matters on what would otherwise be non-working days. Asking for “...
What's RM Lodha's game plan? CJI looks to transfer 9 super senior judges between high courts
Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has set in motion the transfer of up to nine senior high court judges, reported the Economic Times . According to senior high court officials four judges had received ‘consent-seeking letters’ - Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul coul...
CJI Lodha hires NLU D prof Anup Surendranath for first SC research, efficiency drive in 30 years
CJI Lodha waxes wishful: Let's have 365-day-a-year justice
New Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha asked, somewhat rhetorically, at a function yesterday why law could not be available 365 days per year, just like medical and health services: “Some of the adjournments of the hearing in the courts are necessary but some of them are altogether needless and c...
‘Bad court management’? SC hearings wasted, Reliance proposes arbitration in gas pricing war
Reliance Industries, BP and Niko Resources on Saturday served the Indian government with an arbitration notice in order to allow them to increase the price of natural gas that was shelved by the Election Commission until the elections finish on 16 May. Senior counsel Harish Salve, who has been repre...
SC Consti Bench: Kerala gov should have raised Mullaperiyar dam water levels [JUDGMENT]
A five-judge constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices HL Dattu, Chandramauli KR Prasad, Madan B Lokur and MY Eqbal ruled in favour of the Tamil Nadu government that the Kerala government must not restrict the water levels in the Mullaperiyar dam. The bench said that the Kerala law from 2006 w...
SC 5-judge bench: Right to Education Act & Rules consistent with Constitution; Can't force kids to study Kannada [JUDGMENTS]
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Right to Education Act under Article 15(5) and 21-A of the Constitution about compulsory education to six to 14-year-olds. Sitting in two related cases, the constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices AK Patnaik, Dipak Misra, SJ Mukhopadhaya and I...
New CJI issues tight new mentioning guidelines with form, affidavit & strict time window
New CJI Lodha continues Sathasivam legacy: Stays another killer's death sentence
The new Chief Justice of India RM Lodha and a bench of two others stayed the death penalty of 2000 Red Fort shootout convict because he had already served 14 years [Times of India]
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: Lower courts must hear criminal trials v lawmakers day-to-day in a year
A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice RM Lodha said today that lower courts would have to complete criminal trials against lawmakers within a year, by holding day-to-day-hearings, or explain to the respective high court’s chief justice why they weren’t able to meet the deadline [The Hindu]
SC considers suo motu contempt action against shirtless, Sahara-ink-throwing advocate, serial protestor
The Supreme Court Justice RM Lodha has taken suo motu cognisance against advocate Manoj Sharma, who threw ink at the Sahara chief Subrata Roy on the Supreme Court premises on Monday [ Economic Times ]. Lodha instructed the attorney general to find out the facts of the case today. The next hearing is...
After RM Lodha scoffs at joining Lokpal panel, HL Dattu may get post
After the Supreme Court’s second-most senior judge and next Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said he would be the last person to accept appointment to the Lokpal selection panel, Chief justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam reportedly nominated the SC’s third-most senior judge HL Dattu to the pane...