#SupremeCourt Justice UU Lalit led bench to hear a PIL seeking to provide adequate infrastructure under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act across the country for providing effective legal aid to abused women in matrimonial homes among other remedies
Justice Lalit: This is essentially the job of Home ministry and Ministry of Women and Development @HMOIndia
Adv Shobha Gupta: Ministry of information and broadcasting is needed due to section 11
SC: We issue notice to respondent 1,2, 3. we are not issuing notice to states else it will become a jamboree.
SC: We will then put the case in the basket of Central govt for monitoring. Issue notice to respondent 1, 2 and 3. let replies be filed by December 6, 2021. #supremecourt
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The award ceremony for the Prathiba M Singh #Cambridge LL.M. Scholarship will begin shortly.
The event will see eminent jurist and Senior Advocate Fali S Nariman as the Chief Guest, with several distinguished speakers including Justice Prathiba M Singh.
Supreme Court today agreed to hear the batch of Petitions seeking access to Virtual Courts through Hybrid Mode as a Fundamental Right in the month of December 2021 #supremecourt
The matter was mentioned by Senior Advocate
Sidharth Luthra before the Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Abhay S. Oka, who queried Luthra in a lighter vein that effectively the writ Petitions are infructuous with the physical opening of all the Courts.
Luthra: This Court would be the last Court to make access to Virtual Courts through Hybrid Mode infructuous as we have filed the Petition on the basis of the directives issued by the E-Committee of this Court itself to all High Courts.
#BombayHighCourt to shortly hear defamation suit filed by father of #SameerWankhede claiming ₹1.25 crores damages from NCP leader #NawabMalik for allegedly defamatory statements against his son and family.
Vacation Bench of single-judge Justice Madhav Jamdar to hear on:
- interim relief of deletion of alleged defamatory statements in electronic and social media
- temporary injunction restraining #NawabMalik from publishing or speaking in any media
#SupremeCourt to hear the PIL seeking probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case (in Uttar Pradesh) in which eight people were killed, including four farmers.
#SupremeCourt had earlier directed the UP government to provide protection to the witnesses of the incident
It had also questioned the state government as to why there are very few witnesses in the case when hundreds of farmers were present at the rally
Sr Adv Harish Salve: Does the bench have the updated statement?
CJI: There is nothing in it apart from saying that more witness has been examined. 10 days time was granted, lab reports have not come
Supreme Court allows stockbroker Ketan Parekh who was convicted in the Canfina Mutual Fund scam case to travel to UK for medical need
Parekh was held guilty in the case related to 1992 stocks scam, duping CFS of more than Rs 47 crores. #supremecourt had earlier granted him bail
SC: The petitioner wishes to travel to UK to attend to the medical need of his daughter. The petitioner has been allowed to travel abroad on several occasions. He was allowed to travel on 6 previous occasions. #supremecourt
SC: we think ends of justice will be met by allowing the petitioner to travel abroad from Jan 27, 2022, to End of February, 2022. order will be subject to previous conditions.