#SupremeCourt hears the plea to bar political parties from promising #freebies to the electorate
Adv Ashwini Upadhyay: Three judges are required to take a re look at the Subhramanium Balaji judgment
Adv Shadan Farasat:. This is a politically motivated plea
Upadhyay: First is relook and another request is to form a committee to have a standard manifesto...
CJI: Let this thing be done in a proper way. Let the entire matter be considered by a three judges bench.
Upadhyay: We are proposing a committee under the secretarial guidance of the Chief Election Commissioner and with members from the finance commission etc #Freebies
Upadhyay: There is no standard format of the manifesto
CJI: we will list the matter before a three judges bench. Once there is a reference order it has to be looked into by a three judge bench
CJI: Considering the nature of controversy and submissions made, in our view let matter be listed as early as possible before three judges. Let paper be placed before CJI #freebies
Corrigendum: The argument that it was a politically motivated plea and need not be heard urgently was made by Senior Advocate @PWilsonDMK.
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The #MadrasHighCourt is hearing the bunch of 50 pleas filed by the #RSS seeking permission for a state-wide route march in Tamil Nadu on November 6.
Senior counsel NL Rajah for RSS- Permission has been granted by the TN police for the march in only 3 out of the 50 districts we requested. This is in contempt of the court's order.
Senior counsel NR Elango for TN police- In 24 of the 50 locations, the commissioners of police felt it was not possible to grant permission. At 23 locations the SPs said the march can be allowed but only in a closed space or indoors.
Supreme Court is hearing a PIL by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay seeking a direction to Centre, states and union territories to set up expert committees to suggest steps for improving India’s “pathetic” ranking on the global Corruption Perception Index #SupremeCourt
Adv Upadhyay: today is my last appearance before your lordships
CJI: No, i have still a few more days left
Justice Ravindra Bhat: How many reported judgments do you have in your name?
Upadhyay: i did not count milord. I left my PSU career to pursue this profession
Upadhyay @AshwiniUpadhyay : Please see the examples. one person for corporate fraud was sentenced to 1 lakh plus years and for ponzi scheme one was sentenced for 13,000 years.
Kerala High Court is set to pronounce verdict on Kozhikode Sessions judge S Krishnakumar's plea against his transfer to a labour court.
The judge had come under the scanner for his controversial "provocative dress" order.
The HC registrar had opposed the plea stating that the transfer was effected in the general interest of administration of justice and that the judge had made unwarranted comments and used inappropriate methods while handling some cases
Kerala High Court SETS ASIDE the transfer of Kozhikode Sessions judge S Krishnakumar to a labour court following his controversial "provocative" dress order