Delhi High Court to pronounce order in defamation suit filed by Lakshmi Puri against Saket Gokhale for his tweets alleging accumulation of disproportionate assets by Puri to purchase a house in Switzerland.
Issue summons in main suit. Documents to be filed within four weeks. Plaintiff can reply within two weeks after. Matter listed for September 10 before Registrar (Judicial)
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana led bench of Supreme Court to hear a plea by Major General S.G. Vombatkere challenging the constitutionality of Section 124A IPC which penalises for the offence of #Sedition
Justice GS Patel of #BombayHighCourt: I am not stopping any fair reporting of these proceedings, nor will I ever stop. Neither are the petitioners seeking that. I have a problem with the editorial comment on the cross examination and the commentary.
Justice Patel had called upon the Plaintiff and online publication Udaipur Times to explain how access to trial records pertinent to the case was made available to the media.
The defendant in the case had filed an interim applicant raising grievance that the plaintiff in the case was giving access of the pertinent trial records in an ongoing trial through social media.
#BombayHighCourt to hear the PIL seeking directions to make use of A4 size paper printed on both sides mandatory for filing all pleadings in the High Court and subordinate courts in Maharashtra.
Hearing before Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni.
Read details of the petition filed by Mumbai lawyer Ajinkya Udane @ajinkyaudaneadv
Adv SR Nargolkar for the HC administration submits that a notification amending the OS and AS Rules of High Court has been issued and the grievance stands redressed.
A4 size paper permitted to be used for filing and for internal work.
Supreme Court to shortly hear the appeal of Uttar Pradesh govt against Allahabad HC’s order wherein it had passed directions in its suo motu COVID case for improving the medical facilities. A vacation bench had earlier stayed the order. #supremecourt#suomotu#covid19
hearing begins
Matter has been passed over as SG Tushar Mehta is in another court
#SupremeCourt to shortly deliver verdict on a plea by Madras Bar Association challenging Sections 12, 13 of the Tribunal Reforms Ordinance, 2021 and Sections 184 and 186(2) of the Finance Act, 2017 as amended by the Ordinance
One of the moot point of the hearing was whether the retrospective effect given to Section 184(11) of Finance Act would override the judgments of the Supreme Court. #supremecourt#tribunalordinance
Madras Bar Association had argued that challenged provisions are in "contravention of principles of separation of powers, independence of the judiciary (both being part of the basic structure of our Constitution), and are against efficient and effective administration of justice"
#BREAKING: Madras High Court dismisses plea by State General Secretary of the BJP Karu Nagarajan against Tamil Nadu govt’s constitution of a nine-member panel to study the impact of #NEET on socially and economically backward students.
#MadrasHighCourt ORDER: Setting up of the commission does not amount to subverting any process of (medical) admission, far less an act of defiance to any order passed by #SupremeCourt or even remotest challenge to the authority of the Union. #NEET
#MadrasHighCourt ORDER: The setting up of the commission can by no stretch of imagination be seen to be contrary to any Supreme Court order, whether letter or spirit or as a counter to any legislative action taken by the Union or process put in place. #NEET