A summary of important cases from the causelist of the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and the Madras High Court..The causelist will be updated in the evening to reflect the developments in court today..SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Nagendar Chindam & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr..Item 41 in court 2 – Writ Petition (Civil) 80/2013.Bench: Madan B Lokur, Deepak Gupta JJ..This case pertains to NRI voting rights. The Court had allowed the same while directing the Election Commission of India to put forth means to explore alternative options for voting by such overseas electors..Subsequently, the Centre had informed the court that it is proposing to amend the Representation of People Act, 1951 to enable the Election Commission of India to implement proxy voting and e-ballot voting for NRIs..Subrata Bhattacharya v. Securities and Exchange Board of India .Item 59 in court 13 – Civil Appeal 13301/2015].Bench: DY Chandrachud, MR Shah JJ..A batch of petitions related to PACL Ltd’s alleged ponzi scheme where it collected Rs. 45,000 crore from about 6 crore investors. Read more about the PACL case here..S Sreesanth v. Board of Control for Cricket in India.Item 57 in court 14 – SLP (Civil) 3551/2018.Bench: Ashok Bhushan, Ajay Rastogi JJ..Appeal filed by former Indian cricketer S Sreesanth against Kerala High Court judgment which had upheld the ban imposed by BCCI on the cricketer..DELHI HIGH COURT.Rakesh Asthana vs Central Bureau of Investigation & Ors. .Item 3 in Court No. 31- W.P.(CRL) 3248/2018.Bench: Justice Najmi Waziri.The case pertains to Special Director of CBI, Rakesh Asthana’s plea seeking to quash an FIR filed against him by the CBI..Today in Court: In a hearing that went over two hours, Asthana contended that the FIR in absence of Centre’s mandate under Section 17A of Prevention of Corruption Act,1988 was illegal..Real full story here.
A summary of important cases from the causelist of the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and the Madras High Court..The causelist will be updated in the evening to reflect the developments in court today..SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Nagendar Chindam & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr..Item 41 in court 2 – Writ Petition (Civil) 80/2013.Bench: Madan B Lokur, Deepak Gupta JJ..This case pertains to NRI voting rights. The Court had allowed the same while directing the Election Commission of India to put forth means to explore alternative options for voting by such overseas electors..Subsequently, the Centre had informed the court that it is proposing to amend the Representation of People Act, 1951 to enable the Election Commission of India to implement proxy voting and e-ballot voting for NRIs..Subrata Bhattacharya v. Securities and Exchange Board of India .Item 59 in court 13 – Civil Appeal 13301/2015].Bench: DY Chandrachud, MR Shah JJ..A batch of petitions related to PACL Ltd’s alleged ponzi scheme where it collected Rs. 45,000 crore from about 6 crore investors. Read more about the PACL case here..S Sreesanth v. Board of Control for Cricket in India.Item 57 in court 14 – SLP (Civil) 3551/2018.Bench: Ashok Bhushan, Ajay Rastogi JJ..Appeal filed by former Indian cricketer S Sreesanth against Kerala High Court judgment which had upheld the ban imposed by BCCI on the cricketer..DELHI HIGH COURT.Rakesh Asthana vs Central Bureau of Investigation & Ors. .Item 3 in Court No. 31- W.P.(CRL) 3248/2018.Bench: Justice Najmi Waziri.The case pertains to Special Director of CBI, Rakesh Asthana’s plea seeking to quash an FIR filed against him by the CBI..Today in Court: In a hearing that went over two hours, Asthana contended that the FIR in absence of Centre’s mandate under Section 17A of Prevention of Corruption Act,1988 was illegal..Real full story here.