A summary of important cases from the causelist of the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and the Madras High Court..The causelist will be updated in the evening to reflect the developments in court today..SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Manohar Lal Sharma vs Prime Ministers Office and Ors.Item 1 in Court No. 1 – WP (Crl) No. 24/2019.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.This PIL challenges the transfer of Rakesh Asthana from the post of Special Director of the CBI to the Civil Aviation Bureau on the grounds that an investigation is pending against him after the Delhi High Court had refused to quash the FIR filed against him by the CBI in a bribery case..Today in Court: The Court dismissed the petition..Common Cause and Anr vs Union of India.Item 3 in Court No. 4 – WP (C) No. 54/2019.Bench: Justices NV Ramana, M Shantanagoudar. and Indira Banerjee.This petition challenges the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the interim Director of the CBI after the ouster of Alok Verma from the post of Director. The petition prays for making the process of appointment to this post to be more transparent..Today in Court: Justice NV Ramana recused himself from hearing the case stating that he knows M Nageshwar Rao personally..DELHI HIGH COURT.VK Sasikala vs Election Commission of India & Ors.Item 1 in Court No. 38- W.P.(C) 10725/2017 .Bench: Justices GS Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.TTV Dhinakaran vs Election Commission of India & Ors.Item 2 in Court No. 38- W.P.(C) 10728/2017 .Bench: Justices GS Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.The cases pertain to the “two-leaves” symbol dispute between the two factions of AIADMK, one led by ousted AIADMK leaders Sasikala-Dhinakaran and other by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister EK Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam..Daiichi Sankyo Company Ltd. vs Malvinder Mohan Singh & Ors.Item 9 in Court 47- O.M.P.(EFA)(COMM.) 6/2016.Bench: Justice Rajiv Shakder.The case pertains to Daiichi Sankyo’s execution petition pursuant to an arbitral award for recovery of Rs. 3500 crore from former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder and Shivinder Singh..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Antony Clement Rubin v Union of India.Item 34 in Court no. 4 – WP 20774/2018.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and P Rajamanickam.A PIL initially filed with a plea to link Aadhaar with e-mail IDs and other online user accounts for easier detection of online crimes was kept pending by the Madras High Court to check on what measures are in in place for the prevention and detection of cyber crimes. The plea to link Aadhaar with e-mail IDs was however rejected at the early stages of hearing, citing the pendency of the constitutional challenge to the Aadhaar Act itself in the Supreme Court at the time..Edapadi K Palanisamy v Mathew Samuel and 6 others.Item 32 in Court no. 47 – OA 86/2019, CS 82/2019.Bench: Justice K Kalyanasundaram.Chief Minister of Tami Nadu, E Palanisamy has filed a Rs 1.1 crore defamation suit against Narada News Editor, Mathew Samuel, four other journalists and two accused in the 2017 Kodanadu Estate break in and murder case for having uploaded a video earlier this month in which Palanisamy is accused of having a role to play in the estate burglary and subsequent deaths. Last week, the Court allowed an urgent plea for interim injunction by Palanisamy, barring the defendants from further publication of the video in question.
A summary of important cases from the causelist of the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and the Madras High Court..The causelist will be updated in the evening to reflect the developments in court today..SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Manohar Lal Sharma vs Prime Ministers Office and Ors.Item 1 in Court No. 1 – WP (Crl) No. 24/2019.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.This PIL challenges the transfer of Rakesh Asthana from the post of Special Director of the CBI to the Civil Aviation Bureau on the grounds that an investigation is pending against him after the Delhi High Court had refused to quash the FIR filed against him by the CBI in a bribery case..Today in Court: The Court dismissed the petition..Common Cause and Anr vs Union of India.Item 3 in Court No. 4 – WP (C) No. 54/2019.Bench: Justices NV Ramana, M Shantanagoudar. and Indira Banerjee.This petition challenges the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the interim Director of the CBI after the ouster of Alok Verma from the post of Director. The petition prays for making the process of appointment to this post to be more transparent..Today in Court: Justice NV Ramana recused himself from hearing the case stating that he knows M Nageshwar Rao personally..DELHI HIGH COURT.VK Sasikala vs Election Commission of India & Ors.Item 1 in Court No. 38- W.P.(C) 10725/2017 .Bench: Justices GS Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.TTV Dhinakaran vs Election Commission of India & Ors.Item 2 in Court No. 38- W.P.(C) 10728/2017 .Bench: Justices GS Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.The cases pertain to the “two-leaves” symbol dispute between the two factions of AIADMK, one led by ousted AIADMK leaders Sasikala-Dhinakaran and other by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister EK Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam..Daiichi Sankyo Company Ltd. vs Malvinder Mohan Singh & Ors.Item 9 in Court 47- O.M.P.(EFA)(COMM.) 6/2016.Bench: Justice Rajiv Shakder.The case pertains to Daiichi Sankyo’s execution petition pursuant to an arbitral award for recovery of Rs. 3500 crore from former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder and Shivinder Singh..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Antony Clement Rubin v Union of India.Item 34 in Court no. 4 – WP 20774/2018.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and P Rajamanickam.A PIL initially filed with a plea to link Aadhaar with e-mail IDs and other online user accounts for easier detection of online crimes was kept pending by the Madras High Court to check on what measures are in in place for the prevention and detection of cyber crimes. The plea to link Aadhaar with e-mail IDs was however rejected at the early stages of hearing, citing the pendency of the constitutional challenge to the Aadhaar Act itself in the Supreme Court at the time..Edapadi K Palanisamy v Mathew Samuel and 6 others.Item 32 in Court no. 47 – OA 86/2019, CS 82/2019.Bench: Justice K Kalyanasundaram.Chief Minister of Tami Nadu, E Palanisamy has filed a Rs 1.1 crore defamation suit against Narada News Editor, Mathew Samuel, four other journalists and two accused in the 2017 Kodanadu Estate break in and murder case for having uploaded a video earlier this month in which Palanisamy is accused of having a role to play in the estate burglary and subsequent deaths. Last week, the Court allowed an urgent plea for interim injunction by Palanisamy, barring the defendants from further publication of the video in question.