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2024 INSC646REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO(S).4887-4888/2024 UNION OF INDIA Appellant VERSUS BAHAREH BAKSHI Respondent JUDGMENT1 Heard Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, learned Additional Solicitor General appearing for the appellant Union of India. Also heard Mr. Ankur Mahindro, learned counsel appearing for the respondent.2. The consideration to be made in this matter is whether the presence of the estranged husband is mandatory to process an application for Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Card, under Section 7-A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. The respondent had filed the WP(C) No.10807/2020 in the High Court of Delhi for dispensing with the presence of the husband of the respondent. The learned Single Judge Page 1 of 17 dispensed with the presence of the husband of respondent and this view was affirmed by the learned Division Bench under the impugned order dated 25.03.2022. Hence the Civil Appeal at the instance of Union of India.3. In the W...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC621IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO(S). OF2024(Arising out of SLP(Civil) No(s). 30976 of 2017) RAJKARAN SINGH & ORS. .APPELLANT(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT Mehta, J.1. Heard.2. Leave granted.3. The present appeal by special leave, is preferred on behalf of the appellants, assailing the judgment dated 25th April, 2017 passed by the High Court of Delhi in Writ Petition (Civil) No.3543 of 2017, dismissing the writ petition filed by the appellants and upholding the judgment dated 4th October, 2016 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter being referred to as the Tribunal) in Original Application Nos. 60 of 2013 and 459 of 2013. The Tribunal had 1 rejected the appellants claim for benefits of the replacement scales of the Revised Pay Rules, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as RP Rules) in accordance with the 6th Pay Commission Report, with effect from 1st Januar...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC617IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No.149 OF2024GIRISH GANDHI PETITIONER (s) VERSUS THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS. RESPONDENT(s) JUDGMENT K.V. Viswanathan, J.1. The present Writ Petition, under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, has been filed by the petitioner-Girish Gandhi seeking an appropriate Writ or Direction to the effect that the personal bonds and sureties executed by the petitioner in connection with FIR No.0030 of 2021 dated 21.01.2021 registered at P.S. Sadar, District Gurugram, shall hold good for eleven other bail orders passed in his favour from the Courts of different States. Details of the bail orders in different FIRs have been elaborated hereinbelow. 12. The question that arises for consideration is, is the petitioner entitled to the relief of treating the personal bond and one set of sureties already furnished as holding good for the other bail orders also?. Brief Facts:- 3. Very broadl...
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- 1 - NC:2024. KHC:33494 CRL.P No.6248 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU R DATED THIS THE21T DAY OF AUGUST, 2024 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA CRIMINAL PETITION No.6248 OF2024BETWEEN:1. SRI GAJENDRA K.M., S/O MUNISHAMAPPA AGED ABOUT26YEARS.2. SRI BABU S/O BYATHYAPPA AGED ABOUT33YEARS.3. SRI BYATHYAPPA S/O LATE NARAYANAPPA AGED ABOUT80YEARS.4. SMT. VENKATALAKSHMAMMA W/O BYATHYAPPA AGED ABOUT70YEARS.5. SMT. SUSHEELAMMA W/O MUNISHAMAPPA AGED ABOUT40YEARS.6. SMT. MANULA W/O BABU AGED ABOUT28YEARS ALL ARE RESIDING AT KOTTURU VILLAGE TEKAL HOBLI MALUR TALUK, KOLAR DISTRICT 563 101. PETITIONERS (BY SRI CHOKKAREDDY, ADVOCATE) - 2 - NC:2024. KHC:33494 CRL.P No.6248 of 2024 AND:1. STATE BY POLICE SUB-INSPECTOR MASTHI POLICE STATION REPRESENTED BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT BUILDING BENGALURU 560 001.2. SRI VENKATESH S/O LATE MUNIYAPPA AGED ABOUT42YEARS RESIDING AT EEKAMBHAHALLI VILLAGE KOLAR, KASABA HOBLI KOLAR TALUK AND DISTRICT 563 101. RESPONDENTS (...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC615IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.5051 OF2023REKHA SHARMA APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR & ANR. RESPONDENT(S) WITH CIVIL APPEAL No.5052/2023 RATANLAL APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR & ANR. RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT BELA M. TRIVEDI, J.1. Both the appeals having common question of law and facts were heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.2. The facts in nutshell are that the respondent High Court had issued an advertisement for the direct recruitment of 120 posts of Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate under the Civil Judge Cadre. The appellant-Ms. 1 Rekha Sharma, having 40% permanent disability in relation to her eyes, had applied for the said post. The appellant-Ratan Lal having locomotor disability i.e. 55% permanent physical impairment in relation to his right upper limb, had also applied for the said post. Both having appeared in the Preliminary Examination we...
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REPORTABLE CIVIL APPEAL No.3465/2023 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA2024INSC677CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.3465 OF2023STATE PROJECT DIRECTOR, UP EDUCATION FOR ALL PROJECT BOARD & ORS. APPELLANTS VERSUS SAROJ MAURYA & ORS. RESPONDENTS ORDER1 The appellant-State of Uttar Pradesh has assailed the Judgment and Order dated 18th April, 2022 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in an intra court appeal1 directed against the common judgment and order dated 21st December, 2021 passed by the learned Single Judge in a batch of writ petitions. We have perused the impugned judgment and find that except for placing on record the case of the writ petitioners and the respondents followed by the findings returned by the learned Single Judge and the conclusions arrived at, on its own the Division Bench has not expressed its view on the issues raised before it. The judgment simply concludes with an observation that the Division Bench is in agreement wit...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC611IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024(Arising out of SLP(C) No.2111 of 2024) RAMNARESH @ RINKU KUSHWAH AND OTHERS ...APPELLANT(S) VERSUS STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS ...RESPONDENT(S) WITH CIVIL APPEAL NOS. OF2024(Arising out of SLP(C) Nos. 2311-2312 of 2024) CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024(Arising out of SLP(C) No.2285 of 2024) JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. Leave granted.2. The present appeals challenge the judgments and orders dated 22nd December 2023 and 12th January 2024 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Gwalior in Writ Petition Nos. 23998 and 23437 of 2023, and 23060 of 2023 respectively. By the said writ petitions, the writ petitioners 1 (appellants herein) had challenged the decision of the Respondent-Department of Medical Education of not allotting MBBS Unreserved (UR) Category Government School (GS) quota seats to the meritorious reserved candidates, who had passed from the Government Schools. The appellants ...
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2024 INSC614REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL/APPELLATE JURISDICTION SUO MOTU WRIT PETITION (C) No.3 OF2023IN RE: RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF ADOLESCENTS with CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1451 OF2024JUDGMENT ABHAY S. OKA, J.FACTUAL ASPECTS1 Criminal Appeal no.1451 of 2024 has been preferred by the State of West Bengal, aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 18th October 2023, passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta. The learned Special Judge appointed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short, the POCSO Act), Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, convicted the accused for the offences punishable under Section 6 of the POCSO Act and Sections 363 and 366 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, the IPC). For the offence punishable under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, the accused was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for twenty years and pay a fine of Rs.10,000/-. He was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for four and five ye...
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2024 INSC612REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.3082 OF2024SHABNA ABDULLA APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE UNION OF INDIA & ORS. RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. The present appeal challenges the final judgment and order dated 24th January 2023 in Writ Petition (Crl.) No.596 of 2022, passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala, whereby the High Court dismissed the petition filed by the appellant, who is the sister-in-law of the detenue, and thereby upheld the detention order dated 24th August, 2021 issued against the detenue (one Abdul Raoof) under Section 3 of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange & Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1 1974 (hereinafter referred to as, COFEPOSA) and its confirmation vide order dated 24th May, 2022.2. The facts, in brief, giving rise to the present appeal are as given below. 2.1 On 20th April, 2021, the unaccompanied baggage of one Althaf Moosan Mukri was checked and inside the compre...
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W.P. (C) No.706/2020 REPORTABLE2024INSC648IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.706 OF2020RAVI AGRAWAL PETITIONER VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ANOTHER RESPONDENTS ORDER This writ petition is filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India as a Public Interest Litigation seeking the following prayers to be granted in exercise of powers of this Court under Article 142 of the Constitution: a. Issue a writ of Mandamus under Article 32 of the Constitution of India or any other appropriate writ, order or directions under Article 142 of the Constitution of the India to the Respondents to execute/carry out the decision/directions of the Central Information Commission given on 27th June, 2019 in the Second Appeal No.CIC/LICOI/A/ 2018/611292-BJ of the Petitioner. b. Issue a writ of Mandamus under Article 32 of the Constitution of India or any other appropriate writ, order or directions under Article 142 of the Constitution of the India to the Respond...
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