A Justice Ashok Bhushan led bench of the Supreme Court to hear a batch of petitions today seeking to postpone the NEET-UG exams set to be held on September 13.
There are three cases listed. Lead case of Keshav Maheshwari is set to be argued by @advocate_alakh .. the other two of Arijit Sau and Pragya Pranjal too seeks to postpone NEET-UG exams. Pleas filed through @anubha1812
Justice MR Shah: Mr. Datar, all arrangements will be made for the #NEET exams
Arvind Datar refers to UGC judgment by #SupremeCourt
Datar seeks to highlight the example of Bihar where there are only 2 exam centres
SC observes that there cannot be different dates for different States.
SC: Whatever date is fixed, there might be some difficulty
Datar urges for the exam to be considered to be postponed by three weeks
SC points out that a review petition was also dismissed
Senior Advocate KTS Tulsi arguing for petitioners: #COVID19 cases are increasing and now there are 90,000 daily case.
Tulsi shows example of the Bombay HC's recent order where the JC said those who could not appear for the exam should be appropriately considered @MPKTSTulsi
Justice Ashok Bhushan: Whether the students should be considered or not is for the body to decide not for this Court to pass directions on
@MPKTSTulsi cites the Disaster Management Act and says that the students are at a high risk of contracting the virus
Senior Adv Tulsi cites Article 21
Advocate Shoeb Alam now arguing: My petition (Arijit Sau) is different from the petitions so far and is not seeking for deferment of the exams
Alam: I want to point out some lacuna in the guidelines issued by the NTA
Adv Shoeb Alam Alam prays that there might be some facilitation for aspirants to reach the exam centres.
Alam: The local authorities may be directed to ensure that the guidelines are enforced
SC: All this will be done
Adv Shoeb Alam: A slight nudge from your lordships will go a long way. At a time when there is a cap on large gatherings, there are hundreds of students who have to go out to take the exams so a direction from the Court will go a long way
Karnataka HC Division Bench hears appeal challenging single judge order directing National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru to provide 0.5% reservation for transgender students in admissions until it comes out with its own transgender reservation policy.
Justices Anu Sivaraman and Rajesh Rai K are hearing the matter. Senior Advocate KG Raghavan appears for NLSIU, he says that the petitioner who whose plea the single judge order was passed was offered admission but he did not join and "missed the bus."
Raghavan: This was for the 3 year programme.
Raghavan tells Court that petitioner was told to pay the fee for admission to the course, and that he should fill financial aid form if he wished to avail financial aid.
Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of a media report highlighting deaths caused by rabies due to stray dog attacks on children and the elderly.
Bench: Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan
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Justice Pardiwala: This is a highly disturbing news report titled “City hounded by strays and kids pay price”. It contains extremely troubling details.
Justice Pardiwala: There are reports of hundreds of dog bite incidents from both cities and peripheral areas, many of which have led to rabies infections
Supreme Court will today hear the plea filed by tainted Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house committee report indicting him over the recovery of a large sum of unaccounted cash at his official residence in Delhi
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A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih to hear the case today #SupremeCourt
Justice Varma has sought a declaration that the recommendation made by the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna for his removal as High Court judge be declared unconstitutional and ultra vires #YashwantVarma #SupremeCourt
Supreme Court to shortly hear the case pertaining to release of #UdaipurFiles movie
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The Central government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the movie Udaipur Files is about a particular crime and not against any particular community
Justice Kant: Have you filed any Petition in HC? How did Mr Sibal say that it was filed. First go to HC and pursue and then come here. Now other side says he is satisfied with central govt order and he does not want to pursue the case here. So you go to HC now. Why waste our time.
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: This can be transferred to the HC. I can go to the HC but matter was pending here.
Sr Adv Gaurav Bhatia: we are withdrawing it.
Sibal: that is fine ..we will challenge the Central govt order in HC
Chief Justice B.R:
What is your demand (for alimony)?
Lady: Just the house in Mumbai, free of all costs. And ₹12 crore as maintenance.
CJI Gavai: But that house is in Kalpataru… one of the good builders. You’re an IT person. You’ve done your MBA. You’re in demand ..Bengaluru, Hyderabad... Why don’t you work also?”
“You had a marriage for just 18 months,” the CJI continues, “and now you also want a BMW?” 18 months marriage and you want one crore for each month!
Lady: But he is very rich. And he sought the nullity of the marriage claiming I’m schizophrenic.
Sr Adv Madhavi Divan for the Husband: She has to work also. Everything cannot be demanded like this.
Lady: Do I look Schizophrenic My Lords
CJI Gavai: File income tax returns. But understand you cannot claim the properties of his father also.
Case again at 2 pm.
Bench reassembled
CJI Gavai: Where are the returns?
Lady: Yes it is here
Sr Adv Divan: Please give the entire copy .. see 2015-16 there is high income because he was employed then
CJI: Income in 2015-16
Divan: 2 crore 50 lakhs and 1 crore bonus itself..there are also allegations of proxy businesses. Let's take that also for example.. those balance sheets also there. There is nothing to talk about.. if he can just keep the job
Plea in #SupremeCourt seeks FIR against sitting Delhi HC judges
Adv: This plea seeks registration of FIR against sitting HC judges. The issue is when I am the topper of the exam, but all judges.. ideally case should be heard by court 1..
Justice Surya Kant: Are you wanting to argue or you want to do bench hunting? We understand this kind of publicity stunts. Which college you did graduate and MBA?
Adv: engineering from DU and MBA From IIM Kozhikode
Justice Kant: still you make such scandalous allegations
Adv: If this can be treated it as a civil petition.. then this court can..
Justice Kant: just because there are illegal, perverse petitions being filed . You cannot ask FIRs against judges. How many cases have you done
Adv: I did law for this case only
Justice Kant: that's what I thought. Tell me under which law judges are liable to be prosecuted for giving judgments against you.
Justice Kant: What happened to your contempt plea? Why unconditional apology to the tribunal then?
Adv: the court officer told me that earlier order passed was destroyed. the case was earlier only adjourned..
Justice Kant: why unconditional apology
Adv: Justice Vipin Sanghi told me to apologise to tribunal when I moved high court