New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday held that a municipal authority cannot be saddled with liability under the Motor Vehicles Act (MVA) for injuries caused by the fall of a tree branch on a stationary autorickshaw during heavy rain, ruling that such an incident do not arise out of the “use of a motor vehicle” in the manner contemplated under the law.However, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N. Kotiswar Singh, invoking its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to en…
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New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court has set aside the auction sale of a mortgaged property conducted by Indian Bank in 2010, holding that the sale was vitiated due to non-compliance with mandatory provisions of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002, and granted the legal heir of the deceased guarantor a one-time opportunity to redeem the property. A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih allowed in part an appeal filed by M.R. Vasumathi, daughter of deceased guarantor G….
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court has ordered the release on bail of a life convict from Odisha who has remained behind bars for more than 22 years, taking strong exception to an Orissa High Court order which had dismissed his criminal appeal on the ground of a nearly nine-year delay in filing it. Calling the impugned decision “very disturbing”, a Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan observed that the High Court ought to have adopted a “practical view” and, at the ve…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe into the incident in West Bengal’s Malda district, where seven judicial officers deputed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly held hostage for several hours at a BDO office in Kaliachowk.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, while hearing a suo motu writ petition regis…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state. As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi will take up the petitions filed by Bane…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) In an interim order passed on Thursday, the Supreme Court stayed the operation of the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026. Issuing notice to the Centre and the UGC, a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed that the 2026 Regulations shall remain in abeyance and ordered that the 2012 UGC Regulations will continue to operate until further orders. The CJI Kant-led…
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) In an extraordinary exercise of its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, aimed at doing “complete justice”, the Supreme Court has granted relief to a widow who lost her husband during the second wave of Covid-19 by permitting her to settle a bank loan on relaxed terms and directed the Central Bank of India to release the title deeds of her residential property upon payment of a reduced amount. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymal…