Bench hearing a govt co's capital investment balance sheet matter
Justice KM Joseph: We are very sorry to shout at you. These are public funds. We don’t want to be emotional about it. People are without jobs!
SC: ... we’ll take action for contempt. These officers are responsible for taking up the courts time and have been so casual about it. Nobody here comes on daily basis from any of you. Please ask them. What are they doing?
Adv: this is part of original plaint record [reads]
Justice Joseph: Come to clause 2.47. Oh is that another mistake yeah?
#SupremeCourt hearing plea by Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), Tamil Nadu, challenging Madras HC’s order of rejecting its objection to list plea by former Municipal Administration Minister S.P. Velumani of AIADMK to quash corruption case.
Adv asks for passover as Sr Adv is in another court.
Justice Rastogi: What kind of orders are being passed, we certainly have a lot to say. No application of mind, just because some big lawyers come and argue ... Procedures followed speaks a lot about the HC
#SupremeCourt hearing plea by Animal Welfare Board of India, challenging a 2006 judgment of the Kerala High Court that empowers local self government institutions to kill stray dogs.
Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and JK Maheshwari hearing matter.
Adv: Been 5 years my lords. Many have died by attacks.
Justice Khanna: Some solution has to be found. Most of us are dog lovers. I also feed dogs. Something came to my mind - let people take care if they want but has to be marked, not tracked though chips I'm not in favour of..
Justice Khanna: that, they will be responsible for vaccinating them etc. Will this work?
Sr Adv Giri for State: correctness of judgment open to question. There are statutory rules. Your lordships may consider appeal
SC: We're not on that. We have to find a balancing way out.
#SupremeCourt is hearing plea challenging govt decision to form inter-ministerial group to regulate cryptocurrencies
Justice Chandrachud: What kind of plea is this? Govt has made committee so you filed 32? Challenge the law! What are your prayers? You're going by RTI response.
Lawyer says it was announced in budget that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender or safe.
SC: But once RBI came out with its circular, how can you file a 32?
Adv: They have now said they will make law.
SC: You're before the highest court of the land, please understand...
SC: It's a Constitutional issue. RBI circular advises but does not bind the govt, you have to advise your client properly else will get on trouble.
#SupremeCourt hearing case of Air India employee aspirant who was allegedly denied job for being transgender
Bench: Why was she not selected? Because of her gender? We're not insisting on reservation but reasonable accommodation.
Sr Adv KV Vishwanathan for Air India: She wasn't selected as she did not meet the eligibility criteria.
ASG Sanjay Jain: I was given to understand that your lordships wanted a liberal and pragmatic view in this, will render anything towards the same. Act only says (reads)
Order: Issues raised in the petition transcend the claim of employment but extend to formulation of appropriate policies by the govt and implementation of the enactment of the Act by all agencies.
At this stage, keeping the act in mind, we direct the Centre...
Bench was hearing a case pertaining to setting up and safety measures for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
Justice Chandrachud: Mr Bhushan, can this Court order for closure of a plant. There's investment riding on this.
Bhushan: If the reactors are not put in place properly, it'll be hazardous beyond what happened at Fukushima.
SG says he would take 1 hour to argue, and that Tamil Nadu is yet to conduct a public hearing.
Sr Adv V Giri: We will conduct it and place our stand.
Justice Chandrachud: We have to take a median approach. Concerns of community about the spent fuel at the site, before the reactors are established they must be ...
SG: They are not conventional fuel. They can be recharged and reused.
#SupremeCourt hearing case relating to irregularities in HUDCO
Adv Prashant Bhushan: Report had said their officers must be prosecuted against. I don't have much else to submit since the plea was only listed yesterday night (laughs), after 5 years.
Justice Kaul: Not the only 1
Justice Kaul: Even we came to know around midnight.
Bench goes through the office report.
Bhushan reads from pleadings about losses suffered by public sector finance companies.
SC: From here where do we go?
Bhushan: This is a PIL, highlights problems in HUDCO. Court can use it to enter problem of bad loans by public banks etc.