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The Supreme Court on Monday held that without impounding of the passport, the Passport Authority cannot unauthorizedly retain a passport handed over by the Police in the name of a pending criminal case. A division bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal was considering an appeal filed by a husband whose passport was handed over to…
It is a paradox that the right to vote is not a fundamental right, though democracy has been held to be one of the basic features of Constitution, said the Supreme Court in a recent judgment. The Court noted that right to vote has been termed as a “mere” statutory right. “Democracy has been held…
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, indicated that courts should impose realistic conditions of bail considering the economic and social position of the undertrial prisons or else the act of grant of bail does not subserve its purpose. A Bench comprising Justice SK Kaul and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia observed the same while hearing a suo moto writ petition…
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ को जमानत देते हुए कहा कि इस आधार पर जमानत से इनकार नहीं किया जा सकता है कि आरोपी ने सीआरपीसी की धारा 482, या संविधान के अनुच्छेद 226 या अनुच्छेद 32 के तहत एफआरआई/चार्जशीट को रद्द करने के लिए आवेदन दायर नहीं किया है । शीर्ष अदालत…
Supreme Court: The 3-Judges Bench of Fazl Ali, B.K. Mukherjea and Chandrasekhara Aiyar*, JJ., opined that it agreed with the finding of the Bombay High Court that there was ample material on record from which it could be held that Appellant 1, must have known, when he got the properties under the will of his…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday orally remarked that a journalist or a reporter doesn’t have the license to take the law into their own hands. The Court made the observation while hearing a plea by a journalist who was denied anticipatory bail by the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The case of the journalist was that…
The Supreme Court observed that school transfer certificate and extracts of the admission register cannot be relied on to determine age of the victim in POCSO cases. While acquitting an accused, the bench of Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar noted that wherever the dispute with respect to the age of a person arises in the…
The Supreme Court on Monday closed the contempt proceeding initiated against the officer bearers of the Bharatpur Bar Association, Rajasthan, who had allegedly obstructed the work of legal aid defence counsel appointed by the Legal Services Authority. Previously, the Apex Court had stayed the letter issued by Bharatpur Bar Association Committee suspending three legal aid defence counsels from the…
Disquieting trend of criminal cases for cheating being converted into recovery proceedings “A disquieting trend emerging over the years which has gained pace in recent times necessitates this opinion. It has been found by us in multiple cases in the past several months that upon First Information Reports being lodged inter alia under section 420 of…
The Supreme Court recently directed Ford India Ltd. to pay Rs. 42 lakhs as compensation to a consumer who purchased a car which had manufacturing defects. The issue related to a Ford Titanium Endeavour 3.4L owned by the consumer. https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-directs-ford-india-to-pay-rs-42-lakhs-to-owner-of-ford-titanium-endeavour-manufacturing-defect-232239?infinitescroll=1
