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Nov 19

Supreme Court resumes hearing plea seeking investigation into alleged financial irregularities and fund diversion by Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL), now renamed Sammaan Capital Ltd.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and NK Singh

ASG SV Raju: your lordships had sought for the reports last time, I am ready with the reports.

Adv Prashant Bhushan: on the basis of SEBI affidavit this case is crying for an FIR. India bulls is a NBFC. They sent it to the NHB and MCA. Though MCA filed two affidavits before the high court, they don’t mention this before the high court. All that they say is yes certain violations have been noted and they have been compounded. Sameer Gehlot has fled the country. He has bought 5 star hotels, yachts, aircrafts there. SEBI has pointed out that there appears to be evergreening of loans. Shareholding of public is getting transferred to Sameer Gehlot. It needs a detailed investigation.

Justice Kant: very surprisingly CBI has a very cool kind of attitude in this case. We have never seen such a friendly approach by the CBI. This is ultimately public money. There is strong element of public interest. Even if 10% allegations are correct still there are large scale transactions which can be dubbed as dubious. You register an FIR. It will strengthen the hands of the ED, SFIO etc. whoever has to investigate. Why is the MCA indulging in closing the investigation like this? What is their interest in this?

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Nov 18

Supreme Court hears case pertaining to long pending bar council elections in States.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and NK Singh

On the last hearing, the court had said it will appoint retired high court judges for each state to oversee bar council polls.

Sr. Adv. Gopal Sankarnarayanan: over the last several years we have seen how the bar council of India has followed a particular pattern….

Sr. Adv. Manan Mishra, BCI Chairman: you are in the habit of making such allegations in all the courts against the BCI. You are making a mockery of the bar council.

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Nov 17

Supreme Court resumes hearing case regarding appointment of information commissioners.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi

ASG KM Nataraj: the meeting unfortunately could not be held.

Prashant Bhushan: today there are 2/11 information commissioners. There are 9 vacancies. It’s been 2 years since this is happening. RTI is not at all a priority for this government.

Court: the committee might have been busy in elections. It is a possibility.

Bhushan: this is not the last instance. This has been going on repeatedly. So many orders. It is defeating a fundamental right declared by this Court. There are more than 25000 cases pending there. Now people have stopped going there. Hardly any progress in any states. Karnataka has appointed all. Otherwise Jharkhand is defunct. Himachal is defunct.

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Nov 10

Attorney General for India R Venkataramani to shortly make submissions before Supreme Court on the case challenging the validity of the Tribunal Reforms law #SupremeCourt

AG addresses individual applications first. CESTAT, ITAT etc

AG: there has been detailed deliberations within the government. We have also submitted a note.

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Nov 8

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Inaugural Session of National Conference on 'Strengthening Legal Aid Delivery Mechanisms' and Celebration of 'Legal Services Day'
#SupremeCourt @PMOIndia

CJI BR Gavai, CJI Designate Justice Surya Kant, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal present on dias @arjunrammeghwal #SupremeCourt @PMOIndia

@arjunrammeghwal @PMOIndia Justice Surya Kant: As demand for equal and affordable justice evolved, the enactment of Legal Services Authority act was a decisive moment

#SupremeCourt @PMOIndia

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Nov 7

Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath to shortly deliver the AK Sen memorial lecture, 2025.

Justice Nath: I am dumbfounded whether or not to deliver this memorial lecture, because after hearing all the interesting anecdotes and episodes and about the life of Mr. Sen, of which I have neither been associated, acquainted, or known, like Mr. Bagchi is from Calcutta, Dr. Singhvi remembers back to his father's time with Mr. Sen, Mr. Jayanta Mitra also has so many. If they could have continued, I would have enjoyed more. But since I have been assigned this job of delivering the lecture, I think now the boring part starts. All of you will have to suffer me and listen to this lecture, which is a scripted one…. I don't have anecdotes to narrate. If I could be excused, I would be very happy and request all the panelists to continue with some more. And I would say that my lecture is delivered….Reasons to follow and we can go ahead.

Justice Nath: People often call AK Sen the inevitable law minister. By that, they mean he was the person you naturally turned to when the country needed someone sensible to steer legal reform, someone who could talk to courts, to parliament, to the government, and to citizens without raising the temperature. He combined a lawyer's eye for detail with a public servant's instinct to explain and include. His promise showed early. At the age of 26, he authored a book on commercial law. It was endorsed by his senior, Sri Sudhiranjan Das, who would later become Chief Justice of India.

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