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.Enakshi Ganguly vs Union of India.Item 302 in Court 1 – W.P.(C) No. 1166/2019.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer.This PIL pertains to the illegal detention of children in Kashmir in the aftermath of abrogation of Article 370. In the previous hearing, it was claimed that the PIL was filed in the Supreme Court instead of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court given that the High Court was not accessible to the litigants in light of the curfew and restrictions. Supreme Court took note of the claims and sought a reply on this from the Chief Justice of the High Court on the same..M Siddiq (D) through LRS v. Mahant Suresh Das.Item 501 in Court 1 – Civil Appeal 10866/10867/2010.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer.Hearing in the Ram Mandir – Babri Masjid dispute..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Revenue Bar Association v UOI.Item no. 6 in Court 5 – WMP 26150/2019.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.This petition challenges the recently notified rules concerning the appointment and the terms of service governing the President and Members of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunals(GSTAT)..Today in Court: The matter was adjourned to September 30 in view of an order pronounced the same day by another Bench of Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad on the validity of the GSTAT tribunals itself..M Karpagam v The Secretary to the President and ors.Item 8 in Court 5 – WP 119657.2019.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.The plea challenges the Supreme Court Collegium’s proposal to transfer Chief Justice VK Tahilramani to the Meghalaya high Court. In the petition, Advocate M Karpagam contends that since the Collegium proposal is in the nature of an administrative order, the same is amenable to judicial review. The Court will decide on the maintainability of the petition today..Today in Court: The Court has reserved orders in this matter. Read an account of the hearing here..Antony Clement Rubin v UOI and ors, Janani Krishnamurthy v UOI and ors.Item 10 in Court 5 – WP 20774/2018, WP 20214/2018.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.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 had led the Bench to query what measures were in place to counter such crimes. To examine the matter, social media companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp etc have also been impleaded as parties. It was, however, clarified during earlier hearings that the Bench would not entertain the plea for linkage of Aadhaar..Today in Court: The Court has adjourned the matter to October 1..NCLAT.Jet Airways (India) Ltd. (Offshore Regional Hub, Through its Administrator Mr. Rocco Mulder) Vs. State Bank of India & Anr.Item 32 in Court of Chairperson- Comp. App. (AT) (Ins) No. 707 of 2019.Bench: Chairperson, Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya, Member (Judicial) Justice A.I.S. Cheema, and Member (Technical) Kanthi Narahari.The case pertains to an appeal against an NCLT, Mumbai order rejecting the Dutch Bankruptcy Administrator’s plea to recognize their proceedings in the Jet insolvency case.
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.Enakshi Ganguly vs Union of India.Item 302 in Court 1 – W.P.(C) No. 1166/2019.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer.This PIL pertains to the illegal detention of children in Kashmir in the aftermath of abrogation of Article 370. In the previous hearing, it was claimed that the PIL was filed in the Supreme Court instead of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court given that the High Court was not accessible to the litigants in light of the curfew and restrictions. Supreme Court took note of the claims and sought a reply on this from the Chief Justice of the High Court on the same..M Siddiq (D) through LRS v. Mahant Suresh Das.Item 501 in Court 1 – Civil Appeal 10866/10867/2010.Bench: CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer.Hearing in the Ram Mandir – Babri Masjid dispute..MADRAS HIGH COURT.Revenue Bar Association v UOI.Item no. 6 in Court 5 – WMP 26150/2019.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.This petition challenges the recently notified rules concerning the appointment and the terms of service governing the President and Members of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunals(GSTAT)..Today in Court: The matter was adjourned to September 30 in view of an order pronounced the same day by another Bench of Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad on the validity of the GSTAT tribunals itself..M Karpagam v The Secretary to the President and ors.Item 8 in Court 5 – WP 119657.2019.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.The plea challenges the Supreme Court Collegium’s proposal to transfer Chief Justice VK Tahilramani to the Meghalaya high Court. In the petition, Advocate M Karpagam contends that since the Collegium proposal is in the nature of an administrative order, the same is amenable to judicial review. The Court will decide on the maintainability of the petition today..Today in Court: The Court has reserved orders in this matter. Read an account of the hearing here..Antony Clement Rubin v UOI and ors, Janani Krishnamurthy v UOI and ors.Item 10 in Court 5 – WP 20774/2018, WP 20214/2018.Bench: Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee.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 had led the Bench to query what measures were in place to counter such crimes. To examine the matter, social media companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp etc have also been impleaded as parties. It was, however, clarified during earlier hearings that the Bench would not entertain the plea for linkage of Aadhaar..Today in Court: The Court has adjourned the matter to October 1..NCLAT.Jet Airways (India) Ltd. (Offshore Regional Hub, Through its Administrator Mr. Rocco Mulder) Vs. State Bank of India & Anr.Item 32 in Court of Chairperson- Comp. App. (AT) (Ins) No. 707 of 2019.Bench: Chairperson, Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya, Member (Judicial) Justice A.I.S. Cheema, and Member (Technical) Kanthi Narahari.The case pertains to an appeal against an NCLT, Mumbai order rejecting the Dutch Bankruptcy Administrator’s plea to recognize their proceedings in the Jet insolvency case.