Supreme Court today: Rohit Tandon, Rohingya Deportation and more

It was a busy miscellaneous day at the Supreme Court today, particularly in the court of Chief Justice of India, which had around 118 cases listed before it..Below is a summary of certain important matters that were heard today..Supreme Court notice to Enforcement Directorate in bail peal by Delhi lawyer Rohit Tandon.The Court today issued notice to Enforcement Directorate in an appeal filed by Delhi lawyer Rohit Tandon against a Delhi High Court order rejecting his plea for bail..Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi appeared for Tandon before a Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud..Tandon was arrested after the Greater Kailash office of his law firm T&T Law was raided post demonetisation. Old and new currency notes worth Rs. 13.6 crores were seized from the lawyer’s office and he was charged with illegally converting old currency notes in connivance with some bank officials..In May this year, Rohit Tandon’s bail application was dismissed by a Single Judge Bench of Justice SP Garg. The High Court had, however, granted him an interim bail on August 10 to be with his mother, who was undergoing surgery. The interim bail expires on September 6..The Supreme Court today refused to extend the interim bail and directed him to surrender on expiry of the same..Rohingya Deportation: Supreme Court seeks Centre’s reply.In a petition filed by two Rohingya Muslim refugees, the Supreme Court has asked the Centre about why it wants to deport Rohingya Muslims..A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra posted the matter for Monday but did not give any interim direction to the Centre to refrain from taking any steps..The petitioners had approached the Supreme Court contending that the proposed deportation is contrary to the Constitutional protections of Article 14, Article 21 and Article 51(c) of the Constitution of India, which provides equal rights and liberty to every ‘person’. It is also their argument that this act would fall foul of the principle of ‘Non-Refoulement’, which has been widely recognised as a principle of Customary International Law..NCLT Allahabad order initiating insolvency proceedings against Jaypee Infratech.The Supreme Court today stayed the order of the Allahabad Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) directing initiation of insolvency proceedings against Jaypee Infratech..Read more here..Click here to download the Bar & Bench Android App