Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Bombay High Court has said Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation must use modern technology including satellite and drones to supervise unauthorised constructions. “Make use of satellite…make use of drones. Human machinery has failed,” said a bench of Justice Naresh Patila and Justice Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi on April 5. The observations were made as the court

Source:- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Friday directed various high courts to initiate steps for appointing independent public prosecutors for POCSO courts meant for trial of sexual offence cases against children. Terming the issue as “extremely important and significant”, a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar also directed the Delhi High Court to

Source:- economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today slapped a cost of Rs 5 lakh on the Haryana government for filing an appeal against a high court order after more than five years saying it is “destroying” the judicial system by “blatant misuse” of the process. “You (Haryana government) are destroying the judicial system. The

Source:- asianage.com New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will take up for hearing on April 19 a petition for protection of the rights of displaced people from minority communities in Bangladesh, who were compelled to take shelter in India. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud

Source:- news18.com New Delhi: A convict was set free on Sunday due to a typographical error in the Delhi High Court’s order, which was directed by the Supreme Court to surrender first before hearing his plea challenging the order to re-arrest him. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan refused to grant any relief

Source:- hindustantimes.com Private medical and dental colleges from Maharashtra have submitted a plea in the Supreme Court, challenging the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) decision to conduct admission to all medical and dental colleges, including private and deemed, through the state-led centralised admission process (CAP). According to a notification from MCI, issued on March 11,

Source:- dnaindia.com It is necessary for courts to take a “pragmatic view” of the rights of consumers in disputes concerning them since customers are at a disadvantage as compared to service providers, the Supreme Court has said. The court noted that Parliament had enacted the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 and provision of limitation in the

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has constituted a panel of two senior advocates to reduce the mounting number of pending cases and cut short the discomfiting delay in their disposal by various high courts across the country. The order appointing senior advocates Shyam Divan and CU Singh was passed last week by a bench of

Source – thehindu.com When told that security forces’ indiscriminate use of pellet guns against mobs in Jammu and Kashmir is creating a “nation of blind people”, the Supreme Court retorted by questioning the sense of humanity of the very people who form the mob and use children as cover while engaging security forces in pitched

Source – huffingtonpost.in NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking cancellation of the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan while observing that it has found no merit in the plea. The plea has been filed by a Delhi-based lawyer ML Sharma, who has said that the treaty is unconstitutional.