Articles tagged with: TS Thakur

Read highly critical buried NUJS report that SJA won from VC Bhat today • CCTV cameras dead

The student juridical association (SJA) has obtained a copy from vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhat of the 56-page long-buried and long-overdue report by the statutory review commission.

Unpopular NUJS vice chancellor Ishwara Bhat to leave for CNLU Patna, before report exhumation • NLIU ex-vc, 3 others also applied

NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhat, who was hugely unpopular with its student body will be CNLU Patna’s new VC, having applied for the post shortly after NUJS had its first ever judicial review commission and four years before his term was due to end.

NUJS students mobilise, submit 2nd ‘no confidence’ petition in VC, as first judicial probe in 16 years concludes

NUJS Kolkata’s vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhat now has a second loss-of-confidence petition signed against him by the law school’s student body in his career of six years at the helm at the West Bengal national law school.

NUJS finally constitutes 16-years-overdue review commission, 9 months after resolving to

NUJS Kolkata has finally constituted its 16-years-overdue review commission, nine months after former Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur signed a resolution to institute a judicial review of the law school.

CAG report to Guj assembly: GNLU illegally transferred NRI student to general category, losing Rs 27 lakh

GNLU Gandhinagar showed undue favour to an LLB student of the law school, resulting in a loss of Rs 27 lakh to GNLU’s coffers, according to the annual Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled before the Gujarat legislative assembly on 31 March 2017.

NUJS review commission still stuck in red tape, despite ex-CJI appointing Mohan Gopal, Faizan Mustafa, Lalit Magotra

The judiciary-appointed review commission of NUJS Kolkata, which was signed off on by NUJS’s ex-chancellor and ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur in November 2016, remains 16-years overdue and has not been signed off on yet.

SC 7-judge-bench trains suo motu contempt guns on one of its own again: Cal’s Justice CS Karnan stripped of judicial work [UPDATE: READ ORDER]

A seven apex court judge bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Khehar, with justices Dipak Misra, J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur, PC Ghose and Kurian Joseph have today withdrawn all judicial and administrative work from Calcutta high court judge Justice CS Karnan, according to PTI.

'Raucous' Bhojpuri movie shot on NUJS campus causes 5-day ruckus • College bans future film shooting

NUJS Kolkata banned film shooting on campus, after alleged complaints to the administration from faculty and students for disturbance caused by the shooting of a Bhojpuri film inside the Salt Lake law school.

Looks like new CJI is not a fan of the BCI either: Calls body “lacklustre\" for delaying matter 5-6 years

Bar & Bench ( @barandbench ) tweeted: “You are lacklustre”, Supreme Court comes down on BCI. The new Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Khehar told the top regulator of lawyers, which in all fairness has a huge workload of cases it’s defending in court: “You are very lacklustre. Matters are pendin...

GNLU financial officer challenges alleged abrupt, oral, wrongful termination in HC

GNLU Gandhinagar is back in the Gujarat high court, this time facing its accounts officer’s petition for alleged wrongful termination of employment.

Chief TS Thakur bids farewell after one of the toughest of recent CJI terms • He will be missed

BloombergQuint ( @BloombergQuint ) tweeted: “ Parting words from India’s 43rd Chief Justice of India:“ Chief Justice TS Thakur Laments Lack Of Judges, Pendency In His Farewell Speech Dealing with the emerging areas of litigations, the Chief Justice said, “You will have very, very serious issues comi...

Allegedly ‘short-tempered’ JS Khehar to get quite short 8-month term as Chief Justice of India

Supreme Court Justice JS Khehar has been formally confirmed by the President of India as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) to succeed Justice TS Thakur and will be the first CJI from the Sikh community, according to the Indian Express.

SC bans Delhi firecracker sales • At least 3 babies take deep breath, one year after lawyer-dads filed PIL

A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur and justices AK Sikri and SA Bobde today ordered a ban on all sales of firecrackers and the issuing of new licences in Delhi.

CJI greenlights 16-years-overdue NUJS Kolkata judicial review commission, after students raised voices

NUJS Kolkata’s chancellor, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur, has signed off on a resolution to institute a judicial review commission at the university, according to campus sources with knowledge of the development.

CJI sets up inquiry into GNLU director Bimal Patel’s faculty recruitments

GNLU Gandhinagar director Bimal Patel will face a review committee that has been constituted by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to look into allegations of Patel’s opaque faculty recruitments.

NLU Shimla to start for 60 students from 1 Oct, seeks admission forms by 20 Sep

The Himachal Pradesh National Law University in Shimla has requested applications for its five year LLB course, as first reported by CLATGyan, with classes set to start on 1 October 2016 with 60 available seats.

Legally Explained: Did Justice Chelameswar start a revolution today in the SC collegium?

Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the fifth-most senior judge of the Supreme Court, and a member of the SC’s collegium, made the news today with the New Indian Express publishing his refusal to participate in a Supreme Court collegium meeting, as a protest against the collegium’s failure to comply with the principle of transparency of its proceedings.

SC petition challenges MCI oversight by Lodha committee

The Supreme Court will hear on 29 August a plea contending that the top court appointed oversight committee headed by former Chief Justice RM Lodha was going beyond its mandate of monitoring the work of Medical Council of India (MCI).

Legally Explained: How has the SC managed to keep dodging its RTI obligations? [via Mint]

On 17 August, before it broke for a long weekend of four days, a three-judge Supreme Court (SC) bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi, Prafulla Chandra Pant and AM Khanwilkar referred a challenge to its immunity from the Right to Information (RTI) Act to a five-judge constitution bench. The decision, made after a brief hearing, was a surprise as well as a disappointment.

BCCI follows Katju‘s advice, asks for SC review of Lodha decision

The Board of Control for Cricket India in India (BCCI) on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking the review of its 18 July verdict asking the country’s apex cricketing body to implement the Justice Lodha Committee recommendations for transparency and accountability in its functioning and limiting the involvement of ministers and government officials.