A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to High Courts to take appropriate steps to adopt uniform procedure for case registration, use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations and make the court fee uniform.
Supreme Court bench after hearing counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Mr. Rahul Chitnis counsel on behalf of the State of Maharashtra, at length, has observed that petitioner is in jail since last six and half years and there is no likelihood of completion of trial in a reasonable time.
On the previous hearing the Attorney General KK Venugopal had strongly objected to the judgement passed by the Bombay High Court which held 'skin-to-skin' contact is necessary to constitute sexual assault under POCSO Act.
A Supreme Court bench heard the counsel for the State of Maharashtra Rahul Chitnis and dismissed the plea filed by State of Maharashtra seeking removal of certain paragraphs from the FIR registered by CBI against Ex Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on charges of bribery, corruption & criminal conspiracy.
A Supreme Court bench has issued a notice in the matter filed by the Caste Tribe Mahsool Karmachari Sanghatna, challenging the Government notification whereby the State of Maharashtra has withheld the promotions of the officers/employees of the said State Government despite the order of this Court.
The Petitioner Hospital prays the State of Maharashtra and other responsible authorities to take appropriate action against Indo Gas Agency for selling oxygen cylinders in the black market and refusing to supply to the Petitioner Hospital.
Amid the complete chaos of politically motivated cases and indictments in India, there still remains the silver lining of judgment, of powerful investigating agencies doing their duties as they should.
The Bombay High court directing the registry to register the Suo Motu PIL rule said that a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases arose a need for the intervention of the Court to revisit the measures.