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. (causelist).SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Association for Democratic Reforms vs Union of India.Item no. 1 in Court 1 – WP (C) No. 333/2015.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.This petition seeks to bring political parties under the purview of the Right to Information Act and also challenges the validity of the electoral bonds scheme..Today in Court: The Court adjourned the hearing in the case till April 2.Subrata Chattoraj vs Union of India.Item no. 2 in Court 1 – MA 309/2019 in WP (C) 401/2013 [at 3.30 pm].Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.These are applications filed by the CBI against the West Bengal government alleging non-cooperation in the Saradha scam investigation. One of the applications had prayed for a direction to be passed to question the Commissioner of Police of Kolkata, Rajeev Kumar..Today in Court: The Court was submitted the status report in the investigation by the CBI against Rajeev Kumar in a sealed cover. The Court has granted CBI a period of ten days for filing appropriate applications regarding the case..TTV Dhinakaran v. Election Commission of India.Item 10 in court 1 – SLP (Civil) 6621/ 2019.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.Appeal filed by TTV Dhinakaran against the Delhi High Court verdict in Two Leaves symbol dispute..During the last hearing, Dhinakaran submitted that he won’t be pressing for two leaves symbol. Instead, he has made the limited prayer for permission to continue using the old symbol, “Pressure Cooker”..The Court had issued notice on that limited aspect..When the matter was taken up yesterday, the Election Commission had told the Court that a symbol cannot be allotted to a group of individuals who are not registered as a political party. So the pressure cooker symbol can be allotted either to an individual or a political party and not a group of persons as in this case. The Court asked the Election Commission to file an affidavit to that effect..Today in Court: The Court today ordered that the Election Commission allot a common symbol to all the candidates of the TTV Dhinakaran faction for Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections noting that if elected, these members will be considered as independent candidates and not candidates of a political party..DELHI HIGH COURT.The Joint Director, Directorate of Enforcement vs A Raja & Ors.Item no. 12 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 184/2018.Central Bureau of Investigation vs A Raja & Ors.Item no. 13 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 185/2018.Central Bureau of Investigation vs Ravi Kant Ruia & Ors.Item no. 14 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 257/2018.Bench: Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal .The case pertains to appeals filed against the acquittal of all 17 accused in the 2G scam case..Today in Court: The case was adjourned for October 24.
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. (causelist).SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.Association for Democratic Reforms vs Union of India.Item no. 1 in Court 1 – WP (C) No. 333/2015.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.This petition seeks to bring political parties under the purview of the Right to Information Act and also challenges the validity of the electoral bonds scheme..Today in Court: The Court adjourned the hearing in the case till April 2.Subrata Chattoraj vs Union of India.Item no. 2 in Court 1 – MA 309/2019 in WP (C) 401/2013 [at 3.30 pm].Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.These are applications filed by the CBI against the West Bengal government alleging non-cooperation in the Saradha scam investigation. One of the applications had prayed for a direction to be passed to question the Commissioner of Police of Kolkata, Rajeev Kumar..Today in Court: The Court was submitted the status report in the investigation by the CBI against Rajeev Kumar in a sealed cover. The Court has granted CBI a period of ten days for filing appropriate applications regarding the case..TTV Dhinakaran v. Election Commission of India.Item 10 in court 1 – SLP (Civil) 6621/ 2019.Bench: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.Appeal filed by TTV Dhinakaran against the Delhi High Court verdict in Two Leaves symbol dispute..During the last hearing, Dhinakaran submitted that he won’t be pressing for two leaves symbol. Instead, he has made the limited prayer for permission to continue using the old symbol, “Pressure Cooker”..The Court had issued notice on that limited aspect..When the matter was taken up yesterday, the Election Commission had told the Court that a symbol cannot be allotted to a group of individuals who are not registered as a political party. So the pressure cooker symbol can be allotted either to an individual or a political party and not a group of persons as in this case. The Court asked the Election Commission to file an affidavit to that effect..Today in Court: The Court today ordered that the Election Commission allot a common symbol to all the candidates of the TTV Dhinakaran faction for Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections noting that if elected, these members will be considered as independent candidates and not candidates of a political party..DELHI HIGH COURT.The Joint Director, Directorate of Enforcement vs A Raja & Ors.Item no. 12 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 184/2018.Central Bureau of Investigation vs A Raja & Ors.Item no. 13 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 185/2018.Central Bureau of Investigation vs Ravi Kant Ruia & Ors.Item no. 14 in Court 32- CRL.L.P. 257/2018.Bench: Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal .The case pertains to appeals filed against the acquittal of all 17 accused in the 2G scam case..Today in Court: The case was adjourned for October 24.