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Important Legal Updates in India 13th December, 2017 Supreme Court has stayed an order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) that allowed the government to take control of Unitech Ltd by suspending its board of directors. ------------------ Supreme Court has allowed hotels and restaurants to sell bottled water and other packaged products at above the maximum retail price, saying they also render a service and cannot be governed by the Legal Metrology Act. ------------------ Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the manner in which the government had approached the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the case of Unitech Ltd and the tribunal’s order allowing the government to take control of the company. ------------------ Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on a plea by death row convict Mukesh Singh seeking review of the top court judgment upholding his death sentence in the 16 December, 2012, New Delhi gangrape case. ...

Daily legal updates 12th December, 2017 Supreme Court has held that Courts should not be moved by compassion or empathy for students while deciding pleas for re-evaluation of answer sheets. ------------------ Supreme Court has categorically said that it cannot direct the state legislature of Jammu and Kashmir to legislate for formation of minority commission for the state and asked the Centre to “deliberate” on it. ------------------ Supreme Court has observed that after amendment of SC/ST Act carried out in 2016, mere knowledge of the accused that the person upon whom the offence is committed belongs to the community suffices to bring home the charge under Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act. ------------------ Delhi High Court has held that provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act cannot be dropped on mere filing of the status report by the probe agency. ------------------ Gujarat High Court has quashed a case against th...

Important Legal Updates in India 11th December, 2017 Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking 'one nation and one syllabus' for children aged 6-14 years across the nation. ------------------ Supreme Court, while pulling up Uttar Pradesh Government for its adhocism towards protection of Taj Mahal, has directed it to formulate a pragmatic and futuristic policy to protect the monument saying that it belonged to people of the country and it must be preserved for at least couple of centuries ------------------ Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Enforcement Directorate against a 2014 Hyderabad High Court judgement quashing money laundering charges against Satyam's successor company Tech Mahindra. ------------------ Supreme Court has ruled that giving lift to strangers who later stole the vehicle is not a breach that would nullify the insurance policy. ------------------ US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel...