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 to continue hearing habeas corpus petition filed by Dr Gitanjali Angmo (@GitanjaliAngmo) seeking to declare illegal the detention of Ladakhi social activist and her husband #sonamwangchuk (@Wangchuk66) detention under the National Security Act as illegal.
@GitanjaliAngmo @Wangchuk66 Wangchuk was arrested after the #Protest for #statehood turned violent.
@GitanjaliAngmo @Wangchuk66 Bench: Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice PB Varale
#SupremeCourt hears plea filed by a Muslim cleric alleged to be a victim of a hate crime in Noida
The petitioner seeks a fair and impartial investigation and action against police officials who allegedly refused to take action on his complaint
Bench: Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta
Recently, the bench reserved orders in the hate speech batch of petitions, but kept this case pending
ASG KM Nataraj: Now the trial is going on, nothing may survive in this matter
Sr Adv Huzefa Ahmadi (for petitioner): Today main grievance is - even today, there's refusal to lodge FIR for offenses under IPC which relate to hate crime. Incident of 4.7.21 - first counter by state was in denial...in January'23, court called for case diary...after 2 days, FIR was lodged...but not for hate crime...they said it was offense against human body, etc.
#HateCrime
J Mehta: What offenses under IPC?
Ahmadi: Sections 153A, 295A
J Mehta: Let trial court apply its mind
Ahmadi: I am trying to show a pattern of reluctance to take cognizance of fact that this kind of thing is happening
J Nath: On general issue, we have reserved decision.
#SupremeCourt hears plea by @Meta and @WhatsApp challenging the NCLAT order that upheld the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) Rs 213 crore penalty for abuse of dominance in the OTT messaging market
Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi : 3 appeals, first two from Meta and Whatsapp, the 3rd by the CCI
Counsel: as far as penalty is concerned, it is paid in full, subject to the appeal....CCI didnot challenge the order of Jan 25
CJI: we will not allow you to share even a single information, you cannot play with the rights of this country, let a clear message go on your whatsapp
#SupremeCourt hears a plea where a woman is declared as a foreigner
Counsel: she has given the following documents- voter list of 1970, containing names of the father, mother...since 1966, the records show that
J Bagchi: who is your mother ? your mother features first in 1985
Counsel: kindly remand the matter before the tribunal
CJI: how can we remand the matter, if you have any other proof to connect you as the natural daughter of (inaudible)...
J Bagchi: you are naming yourself to be born from Abdul noor and Sulema, till 1987, she has not married abdul noor...the connect between you and your natural father is becoming dubious, that is why we are not giving you an advantage
#SupremeCourt hears batch of petitions on the issue of whether PMLA proceedings survive when predicate offence is quashed on the basis of compromise and not on merits.
Bench: Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh
Additional Solicitor General SV Raju takes the Court through relevant definitions under the PMLA Act.
ASG: this is not a case of full acquittal of the full case. In the predicate offence in India one of the accused has been convicted.
ASG: scheduled offence still exists. One of them is convicted. If we are independently able to show in the PMLA case that a predicate offence existed then that might suffice irrespective of what happens when the predicate case