Petitioner and IFS officer Sanjay Chaturvedi NEW DELHI: Highlighting that there is no protection for honest govt officials and also private persons who face the music for exposing corruption by suffering frequent transfers and non-consequential postings, Magsaysay award winner and IFS officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi has moved the Supreme Court for protection of whistleblowers, as the…
SC: Indians married here can’t get divorced abroad NEW DELHI: Taking advantage of liberal laws abroad to obtain a divorce for a wedding solemnised in India will not automatically lead to dissolution of the marriage under Indian law, Supreme Court has ruled.Viewing negatively the use in a foreign court of grounds for divorce which are…
Supreme Court seeks mandatory compensation for digital fraud victims if banks fail due diligence NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked WhatsApp and other digital intermediaries to submit details of the measures they propose to take to prevent digital arrest scams and related cybercrimes, directing them to share their proposals with the Indian Cybercrime Coordination…
‘Unusual, disturbing’: Lawyers’ boycott makes man stay in jail despite bail NEW DELHI: The accused in an abetment of suicide case who got bail from Supreme Court after spending one year in custody had to stay in jail for another one and a half months as lawyers refused to represent him before the trial court…
The government has maintained that it is not challenging or seeking a review of the March 11 judgment. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday clarified that its March 11 ruling on determining the creamy layer status of Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates would not reopen completed appointments, promotions or seniority positions.The top court said…
Tejpal had approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court’s August 6 judgment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to suspend the 10-year prison sentence of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, convicted of raping a junior colleague inside a hotel elevator in Goa in November 2013.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and…
‘Can’t interfere in norms for SC/ST seats in house’NEW DELHI: Refusing to blur the constitutional ‘Lakshman Rekha’ that separates the three organs of governance, Supreme Court Wednesday said it cannot usurp legislature’s exclusive powers to interfere in the criteria for reserving an assembly or parliamentary constituency for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.“We cannot become the…
The SC also rejected the BMC commissioner’s request for more time. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took a stern view of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) failure to clear encroachments from land reserved for a BEST bus stand in Mumbai, initiating contempt proceedings against the civic body’s commissioner.A Bench headed by Chief Justice…
Supreme Court seeks reconciliation between estranged couple as it hears woman’s plea to terminate over six-month pregnancy, opposed by her husband NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday found itself in a predicament on an abortion plea of a woman who sought its approval for termination of her over-six-month pregnancy over the discord with her husband, who…
SC allows tax department to reopen assessment of former CJI YK Sabharwal’s sons over Rs 255 crore share sale deals. NEW DELHI: Holding that the income tax department is not precluded from conducting reassessment upon discovering evidence suggesting income had escaped assessment, Supreme Court upheld a Delhi high court order allowing the agency to reassess…
