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.Nivedita Jha vs the State of Bihar.Item No. 4 in Court 1 – SLP(C) No. 24978/2018.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna.This petition relates to incidents of sexual abuse shelter homes in Bihar. The Court had earlier handed over the probe in the matter from Bihar police to the CBI and transferred the trial in Muzaffarpur case to Delhi. In terms of the probe in the 16 other Shelter Homes in Bihar, the Court had sought the personal presence and replies from former interim DCBI M Nageswara Rao and other officials involved in transferring AK Sharma who was heading the probe. Rao has now tendered an unconditional apology for violating the orders of the Supreme Court..Today in Court: The Supreme Court found M Nageswara Rao and S Bhasuran guilty of Contempt of Court and sentenced them until the Bench rises for the day along with a fine of Rs 1 lac each..Sri Marthanda Varma (D) thr LR vs The State of Kerala.Item no. 1 in Court No. 9 – SLP (C) No. 11295/2011.Bench: Justices UU Lalit and Indu Malhotra.Case pertaining to treasure trove at the Padmanabha Swamy temple in Trivandrum..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. Vs Union of India and two others.Item 20 in Court 3 – WP 21479/2018.Bench: Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad .The petition by Kalyan Jewellers challenges the Constitutionality of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Act, 2016. The petitioner has contended that the new Act, which replaced the erstwhile BIS Act of 1996, imposes disproportionate and arbitrary penalties on jewellers/licence holders alone, while disregarding basic principles of natural justice and criminal procedure.
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.Nivedita Jha vs the State of Bihar.Item No. 4 in Court 1 – SLP(C) No. 24978/2018.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna.This petition relates to incidents of sexual abuse shelter homes in Bihar. The Court had earlier handed over the probe in the matter from Bihar police to the CBI and transferred the trial in Muzaffarpur case to Delhi. In terms of the probe in the 16 other Shelter Homes in Bihar, the Court had sought the personal presence and replies from former interim DCBI M Nageswara Rao and other officials involved in transferring AK Sharma who was heading the probe. Rao has now tendered an unconditional apology for violating the orders of the Supreme Court..Today in Court: The Supreme Court found M Nageswara Rao and S Bhasuran guilty of Contempt of Court and sentenced them until the Bench rises for the day along with a fine of Rs 1 lac each..Sri Marthanda Varma (D) thr LR vs The State of Kerala.Item no. 1 in Court No. 9 – SLP (C) No. 11295/2011.Bench: Justices UU Lalit and Indu Malhotra.Case pertaining to treasure trove at the Padmanabha Swamy temple in Trivandrum..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. Vs Union of India and two others.Item 20 in Court 3 – WP 21479/2018.Bench: Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad .The petition by Kalyan Jewellers challenges the Constitutionality of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Act, 2016. The petitioner has contended that the new Act, which replaced the erstwhile BIS Act of 1996, imposes disproportionate and arbitrary penalties on jewellers/licence holders alone, while disregarding basic principles of natural justice and criminal procedure.