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 suo motu plea concerning struggles faced by military cadets who are boarded out due to injury or disablement during training.
Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan.
ASG Venkataraman: the MOF is willing to work on rehabilitation and spend money on it. It is in a nascent state.
J Nagarathna: some reassessment of the disability must be done. If there have recouped and are able to be mobile and all that some other jobs can be given to them.
Amicus Curiae Rekha Palli: 90% can be rehabilitated. They also don't have any reservation because they do not get ex-serviceman status.
ASG: kindly give us some time we will come back with something.
#SupremeCourt hears a plea filed by INC candidate-Motab Shaikh challenging his deletion from #WestBengal's electoral roll after adjudication under the SIR process
The petitioner has also sought direction to ECI for permission to file nomination papers as the INC candidate
Sr Adv for petitioner: Ground reality is one Adv Ayush Majumdar is waiting there since morning...the main gate is closed. There are others who are waiting. I have seen personally that the main gate is closed. My last date to file nomination is 6th. I am the chosen candidate for the Congress party.
CJI: There was training part going on...Tribunals are functional today.
Sr Adv DS Naidu (for ECI): He can straightaway approach any Appellate Tribunal. We will assist. If it's a genuine case, it can be disposed of within no time
J Bagchi to Naidu: Please use your good offices so that by the time we take up the main matter again on 6th, his appeal can be dealt with in light of the documents submitted. He has a passport. Please look into that
Naidu: He (petitioner) himself agrees there is a name discrepancy.
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal (for petitioners): I got a report...I have read
Sr Adv Menaka Guruswamy: This was an apolitical protest
CJI: Don't want to politicize
SG Tushar Mehta: It is UNACCEPTABLE!
CJI: Till 11 o clock your Collector was not there. I had to verbally instruct very harsh orders in night. 5 yr old child not allowed food and water!
J Bagchi: Persons who are entrusted now with law and order need to be more vigilant. Please make enquiries. Efforts which were required to be made to contact by CJ office with civil servant incharge in WB...there are leaders of state who need to in one voice...we are here to protect the spl officers. Their orders are deemed to be our orders
Sr Adv Gopal S: We will increase security
SG Mehta: It won't be wise to rely on state now for security of judicial officers
J Bagchi: We leave it to ECI
Gopal S: Report says police and paramilitary have secured now. Report suggests villagers have said they will continue protest. Let Central Paramilitary, ECI everyone ensure security.
SG: A strong message must go
Sr Adv DS Naidu: Kindly see the audacity, the brazenness. We need to protect the judicial officers
Order: Letter received from CJ of HC in morning. In night, [information received] that 7 judicial officers including 3 women were gheraoed by some anti-social elements in the BDO office, Malda District...gherao started at [...] pm...Registrar General of HC immediately informed admn authority of state and requested immediate action. Nothing however was done till 8.30 PM. RG then contacted Home Secy and DGP...with CJ of HC. Assurance was made for early action. But no action was taken by authorities. Even food and water was not permitted to be supplied to the judicial officers...Some senior judges of HC were also associated.
Kerala High Court resumes hearing PIL moved by KeLSA (Kerala State Legal Services Authority) seeking stronger laws to combat ragging within educational institutions
#KeralaHighCourt #KeLSA #Ragging
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice C. Jayachandran is hearing the matter
On 10th March, the Court had directed the State to set a deadline for submission of remarks by the concerned departments to expedite the process of finalising the Anti-Ragging Bill
Justice Abhay Oka, former Supreme Court judge, to shortly speak at the 45th JP Memorial Lecture at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh.
The judge will be speaking on "Reclaiming Justice: Bringing Back The Constitution & The People Into The Judiciary"
#JusticeAbhayOka
J Oka: Fortunately, my parents made me compulsorily read a Marathi and English newspapers. Then I read about JP Narayan, how he began a movement and how he became a leader. We knew him as somebody who led agitations against the then Indira Gandhi government. He was truely a Gandhian, a colleague of Vinobaji Bhave... He was a strong supporter of "non-violence."
#JusticeOka
J Oka reads out a quote by JP Narayan on non-violence.
In few lines, such a beautiful message has been given by him. When I was reading about him, I felt that he should have continued in active life for more 10 years. What he started in Bihar, was incomplete due to Emergency and his health. Perhaps had he continued his active life for more 10 years, we would have been a different India today.
Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas is considering the case
The plea was preferred by the father of the accused contending that the movie may prejudice the trial in the case, which is still pending before the Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram.