The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of a successful bidder in an IBC liquidation auction that did not pay the balance price within 90 days, upholding the NCLAT’s order affirming forfeiture of its earnest money and the other sums it paid, on the strength of the forfeiture clause in the e-auction notice.
In its suo motu case on recent sexual offences in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court has directed Delhi authorities to complete, within four weeks, a police survey of vulnerable locations and an audit of lighting and CCTV, called for detailed status reports on women’s safety mechanisms, and sought an affidavit from the Delhi High Court on fast track and POCSO courts.
A victim’s appeal against an order of acquittal passed by a Magistrate lies to the Court of Session, and not to the High Court, the Supreme Court held, clarifying the effect of the proviso to Section 413 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita on a victim’s right of appeal. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has […]
The Supreme Court has given the Union Government a last opportunity to file a report on the steps it has taken to give effect to the Court’s 2024 directions to curb child sexual abuse material online, after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Law Ministry failed to file their compliance reports. Terming the matter ‘extremely serious’, the Court directed the Ministries to explain what precautions they would take to prevent lapses by social media intermediaries.
The Supreme Court has clarified that the grievousness of an injury, or its capacity to cause death, is not a necessary ingredient of the offence of attempt to murder under Section 307 IPC; what the section requires is an act done with the intention or knowledge that it could cause death. Even so, the Court declined to add a Section 307 charge in an assault case, holding that no such intention had been alleged at any stage and that the prayer to alter the charge came too late.
Doubting an earlier ruling that damages under Section 14B of the EPF Act are automatic, the Supreme Court has referred to a larger Bench the question whether the authorised officer retains a discretion not to levy a penalty at all. It directed resolution applicants to pay the provident-fund dues with statutory interest in four quarterly instalments in the meantime.
The Supreme Court held that a trust is not a juristic person capable of suing or being sued, and therefore cannot be arrayed as an accused in a criminal case. It directed that proceedings in the IMAP deposit scam not continue against an educational trust, while leaving the prosecution of its trustee and the other accused untouched.
Promoted on an ad-hoc basis in 2006, kept on for six years, then reverted, a group of MCD junior engineers spent two decades litigating for regularisation. The Supreme Court, deprecating the Corporation’s apathy, held that once the Lieutenant Governor approved the rule relaxation the approval related back to 2006, and ordered regularisation and consequential benefits from the date they were first promoted.
The former NSE Managing Director argued that officers of a private company cannot be public servants under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s rejection of that argument, holding that whether she was discharging a public duty is a question she can raise at trial.
Pushing the Centre on packaged-food warning labels, the Supreme Court welcomed the FSSAI’s proposed “red hexagon” HIGH FAT / SUGAR / SALT front-of-pack warning but flagged gaps in its phasing, thresholds and timeline, and put 13 pointed questions to the regulator, framing the exercise as part of the right to health under Article 21. New […]
