CJI DY Chandrachud: Please don't raise your voice. This is not the way to behave as the President of SCBA. You're asking for a land allotted to the SC to be given to the bar. I have made my decision. It will be taken on 17th and it will not be first on board.
Singh: Just because the bar doesn't do anything doesn't mean it should be taken for granted. I feel strongly for this. 20 years lawyers have been waiting to be allotted chambers.
CJI DY Chandrachud: Mr Singh, I am the Chief Justice of India. I have been on the bench for long. I have never let myself be brow beaten by bar members and I will not let it happen in the final 2 years of my life.
#SupremeCourt hears a batch of petitions related to #WestBengalSIR, including WB Chief Minister #MamataBanerjee's plea raising issues inter-alia about characterization of voters in the 'logical discrepancy' list
Bench: CJI Surya Kant and J Joymalya Bagchi
Sr Adv Shyam Diwan (for Mamata Banerjee): Please see the last order.
#SupremeCourt to hear today ED's writ petition alleging that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and state police officers obstructed its search of the office of I-PAC, the political consultant of All India Trinamool Congress.
Bench: Justices PK Mishra and Justice NV Anjaria.
Last week, the State opposed the maintainability of the writ petition, contending that allowing a central government department to file writ petition against a state government will be dangerous to the federal structure. livelaw.in/top-stories/al…
Matter taken up.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal takes the Court through the prayers in the writ petition.
#BREAKING #SupremeCourt takes up suo motu case over creation of special exclusive courts
Matter listed today before a bench of CJI Surya Kant and J Joymalya Bagchi
Prior to this, the Court had suggested creation of exclusive courts in order to expedite trial of cases under special statutes like UAPA, MCOCA
Hearing in suo motu case over creation of special exclusive courts begins
MHA files status report on cases other than NIA cases
Many State/UT Advocate Generals join
CJI: Besides NIA, other matters which require timebound disposal are - UAPA...
ASG: UAPA covered in NIA.
CJI: We will separately deal with an issue I lost on that side in 2002. The system of this release of matching grant and stay...most states are revenue-deficit. Judiciary facing extreme hardship across country. Some new system required, or old practice be revisited...in some states, thanks to our bureaucrats, [earmarked] grant also not utilized. Centre has intention to pay. Beneficiary does not get.
#SupremeCourt hears writ petition by NGO Vanashakti, in which last year it recalled its own order that prohibited granting retrospective environmental clearances.
Senior Advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan takes the Court through various EIA notifications and relevant circulars from time to time: the first time they came up with this idea of ex-post facto environmental clearance was in 1998.
Sankarnarayanan: our argument is the only window that is open today in law for applying for expost facto clearance is the notification dated 14th March 2017. If you have as on that date have a half constructed building without clearance, you have 6 months within which you should apply for clearance
Plea against shortage of LPG cylinders in the hotel industry before the Karnataka High Court
Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum to pronounce orders at 2.30 pm after the meeting convened by Food and Supplies Minister concludes.
State informed the court that they will place all documents on record and it is likely that 10,000 LPG cylinders per day would be allocated for the commercial sector.
Solicitor General told the court that 'certain global events are beyond the control of the government ' and 'it is best to allow the governments to work out a remedy'.
Judge also noted that Bombay High Court has not given any indulgence in a similar matter.
Controversial NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede on Monday told the Bombay High Court that he never demanded any bribe from Bollywood Superstar Shahrukh Khan in the Cordelia Cruise drugs case, in which the actor's son Aaryan Khan was arrested in 2023.
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#BombayHighCourt #SameerWankhede
Senior Advocate Abad Ponda for Wankhede made brief submissions before a division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Suman Shyam.
Ponda told the judges that his client never made any demand or received any amounts as alleged by the prosecution CBI in its FIR under Prevention of Corruption Act.
Notably, the FIR alleged that Wankhede had demanded through private persons, an amount of around Rs 25 crores from Khan to grant a clean chit to his son Aaryan.
#BombayHighCourt
Wankhede today told the judges that the prosecution has not adduced any evidence to establish that he himself either demanded or received any amount. He argued that some private persons received some amount but they too aren't related to him.