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.BG Verghese vs Union of India Ministry of Homa Affairs & Anr.Item no. 5 in Court 1 – WP (Crl) No. 31/2007.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi with Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna JJ..This PIL pertains to the alleged fake encounters that took place in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. The Chairperson of Monitoring Committee, retired judge, Justice HS Bedi has submitted his final report regarding the alleged encounters wherein he has called for a probe into three of the seventeen cases considered by him. Bedi J. has also observed in his report that there has been no selective elimination of Muslim extremists..Reliance Communications Ltd & Ors vs State Bank of India & Ors.Item no. 11 in Court 5 – WP (C) No. 845/2018.Bench: Justices Rohinton Nariman and Vineet Saran.This case relates to the contempt proceedings initiated against Reliance Communication’s Anil Ambani for flouting the Court’s orders relating to repayment of money to Ericsson. The Court has sought Ambani’s personal presence in the Court..DELHI HIGH COURT.Delhi High Court Bar Association vs S Gurumurthy .Item no. 2 in Court no. 34– CONT.CAS.(CRL) 10/2018.Bench: Siddharth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, JJ..The case pertains to the contempt petition filed by the Delhi High Court Bar Association against Chartered Accountant S Gurumurthy for making scandalous allegations against Justice S Muralidhar..Today in Court: The Court today directed Standing Counsel of Delhi Govt. (criminal) to bring on record the Central Government notification authorizing him to give his consent to parties to initiate criminal contempt proceedings..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Revenue Bar Association and Anr v Union of India.Item no, 11 in Court no, 3 – WP 21147/2018.Bench: Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad .These petitions challenge the vires of provisions concerning the constitution of Appellate Tribunals under the Central Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act, 2017..Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. Vs Union of India and two others.Item 17 in Court no, 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.BG Verghese vs Union of India Ministry of Homa Affairs & Anr.Item no. 5 in Court 1 – WP (Crl) No. 31/2007.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi with Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna JJ..This PIL pertains to the alleged fake encounters that took place in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. The Chairperson of Monitoring Committee, retired judge, Justice HS Bedi has submitted his final report regarding the alleged encounters wherein he has called for a probe into three of the seventeen cases considered by him. Bedi J. has also observed in his report that there has been no selective elimination of Muslim extremists..Reliance Communications Ltd & Ors vs State Bank of India & Ors.Item no. 11 in Court 5 – WP (C) No. 845/2018.Bench: Justices Rohinton Nariman and Vineet Saran.This case relates to the contempt proceedings initiated against Reliance Communication’s Anil Ambani for flouting the Court’s orders relating to repayment of money to Ericsson. The Court has sought Ambani’s personal presence in the Court..DELHI HIGH COURT.Delhi High Court Bar Association vs S Gurumurthy .Item no. 2 in Court no. 34– CONT.CAS.(CRL) 10/2018.Bench: Siddharth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, JJ..The case pertains to the contempt petition filed by the Delhi High Court Bar Association against Chartered Accountant S Gurumurthy for making scandalous allegations against Justice S Muralidhar..Today in Court: The Court today directed Standing Counsel of Delhi Govt. (criminal) to bring on record the Central Government notification authorizing him to give his consent to parties to initiate criminal contempt proceedings..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Revenue Bar Association and Anr v Union of India.Item no, 11 in Court no, 3 – WP 21147/2018.Bench: Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad .These petitions challenge the vires of provisions concerning the constitution of Appellate Tribunals under the Central Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act, 2017..Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. Vs Union of India and two others.Item 17 in Court no, 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.