NEW DELHI: Frowning at vexatious litigation relating to land acquisition, which delays projects for decades, Supreme Court Thursday ruled that when a govt acquires land for public purposes using its sovereign powers, it cannot be frustrated by creation of third-party rights after the acquisition.A bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar said even…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a borrower cannot be classified as a “consumer” under the Consumer Protection Act if the loan was taken for a profit-generating exercise. The verdict came as the top court set aside an order by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which had directed the Central Bank…
NEW DELHI: In contrast to the general refrain that lawyers extract money from gullible clients ignorant about the legal processes, a private company successfully dodged payment of legal assistance fee to a lawyers’ firm successfully by exploiting a little-known provision in Indian Partnership Act.‘The Chennai Law Firm’ had filed a suit against Reyvish Associates Pvt…
NEW DELHI: Two days after many died in the stampede at Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, partly blamed on alleged restrictions to facilitate visit of important dignitaries, SC Friday said it agreed with the PIL petitioner that there should not be any special arrangement for VVIP darshans at temples and religious places, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. A…
NEW DELHI: A groom’s greed for dowry gold tore apart his marriage within three days, entailed dowry harassment prosecution for 19 years, incarceration for three months, and now the Supreme Court has asked him to pay a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the bride, who has since married another and settled abroad.The marsriage took…
Nishikant Dubey (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Jharkhand government plea and upheld HC’s decision to quash an FIR against BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey, Manoj Tiwari, and other persons related to the 2022 Deoghar airport incident where allegedly the Air Traffic Control (ATC) was forced to give clearance for an unscheduled…
Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that no coercive action shall be taken against Indian Administrative Service (IAS) trainee officer Puja Khedkar till February 14.A bench of justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notice to the Delhi government and the Union Public Service…
AI image of the Supreme Court. NEW DELHI: Giving trial courts full discretionary freedom in formulating their decisions in bail matters, Supreme Court has ruled that no constitutional court, be it SC or HC, can dictate a format for grant of bail to accused to be mandatorily followed by judicial officers.The court quashed proceedings initiated…
NEW DELHI: Does shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ inside a mosque hurt religious sentiments of Muslims? Supreme Court on Friday will hear a petition challenging a Karnataka HC decision which quashed criminal proceedings against miscreants who raised the slogan inside a mosque on the ground that it did not hurt religious sentiments.A bench of Justices Pankaj…
NEW DELHI:A soldier, who was part of ‘Operation Rakshak‘ and deployed near LOC in J&K lost his life in extreme climactic conditions, while discharging his duty in the wee hours of a chilly Jan morning in 2013 but his widow was denied Liberalised Family Pension (LFP) despite getting order in her favour from armed forces…
