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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...

CBI books former ED official The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked a former Deputy Director of the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets estimated at Rs. 1.54 crore. The parent organisation of the accused, Gurnam Singh, is the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Chandigarh. He joined the ED on deputation and had been with the agency from March 2012 to January 2017, following which he was repatriated. “During his tenure as Deputy Director, Enforcement Directorate, he amassed huge properties/amount through corrupt illegal means and as benami properties,” the FIR says.

Delhi govt can’t have exclusive executive powers: Centre to SC Says it would be against national interest to give Delhi govt full administrative power. The Delhi government cannot have “exclusive” executive powers as it would be against national interests, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Referring to the report of a committee and several apex court judgments, the Centre submitted before a five-judge constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that a Union Territory (UT) cannot be raised to the level of a State under the Constitution and it has to be administered by the President of India. Constitutional provision “Designation does not change status. A UT [Delhi] remains a UT and it is not equivalent to a State. The Lieutenant-Governor [L-G] is not equivalent to Governors of States,” Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, arguing for the Centre, told the Bench, which also comprised Justices A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar, D....

Case Laws on Handwriting # 1. Murari Lal v. State of MP, AIR 1980 SC 531 In the said judgment Apex Court had discussed the entire case law relating to Handwriting Expert Evidence, thus relevant portions of the judgment are reproduced as under:- We will first consider the argument, a Stale argument often heard, particularly in criminal courts, that the opinion- evidence of a handwriting expert should not be acted upon without substantial corroboration. We shall presently point out how the argument cannot be justified on principle or precedent. We begin with the observation that the expert is no accomplice. There is no justification for condemning his opinion evidence to the same class of evidence as that of an accomplice and insist upon corroboration. True, it has occasionally been said on very high authority that it would be hazardous to base a conviction solely on the opinion of a handwriting expert. But, the hazard in accepting the opinion of any expert, handwriting expert or a...

LATEST LEGAL UPDATES:- Supreme Court has restrained all deemed universities across the country from continuing any distance learning courses from the academic year 2018-19 without prior approval of the regulatory authorities and ordered a CBI probe into granting of retrospective approvals to four of them. --------------- Supreme Court has upheld a Chhattisgarh High Court judgment that allowed legal heirs of the complainant to prosecute the petition before the high court. --------------- Supreme Court has directed the Registry to ensure that all cases filed before it against an acquittal must mention the period of custody undergone by the accused. --------------- Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea challenging Tamil Nadu government's decision to set up a one-man Commission to probe death of AIADMK Chief and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. --------------- Chhattisgarh High Court has held that right to property is not only constitutional right, but als...