The Supreme Court this week went by without any major fireworks. Read the highlights from the week below..Monday, February 27.Supreme Court expresses shock over Hyderabad High Court order reducing acid attacker’s sentence.A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi have set aside the verdict of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh which had reduced the sentence of a man who threw acid on a girl..The High Court had reduced the sentence of the convict to 30 days, the period already undergone by him behind bars and restored it to one year jail term as awarded by a trial court..The Bench also awarded the victim, a young girl from Andhra Pradesh, a compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh while allowing her appeal against the verdict of the High Court..Read full story here..NEET: Can age-limit be prescribed without regulations, Supreme Court to decide.Can age-limit be prescribed for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in the absence of any regulation or procedure under the MCI Act authorising the same?.If submissions by Senior Counsel Vikas Singh are anything to go by, MCI will take a stand that age-limit can be prescribed for NEET despite the absence of any such empowering regulations..The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and M Shantana Goudar has posted the case challenging NEET age-limit for March 20..“List on March 20 to enable Senior Counsel Vikas Singh to satisfy the Court that age-limit can be fixed without any regulation”, read the order..Read story here..Wednesday, March 1.Day 1 of Uber v. CCI in the Supreme Court.A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra, R Banumathi and Mohan M Shantanagoudar heard Uber India’s grievances against the Competition Commission of India (CCI)..Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal is representing Uber. He was briefed by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. Abhishek Manu Singhvi appeared for Meru..Read the complete account of the hearing here..Thursday, March 2.SC issues notice to Maharashtra over bargirls’ plea.The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Maharashtra government on a plea of a bar dancers’ body challenging the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law putting conditions on dance performances by women in bars and hotels there..The fresh plea, filed by ‘Bharatiya Bargirls Union’, has termed the new Act arbitrary and violative of their right to earn a livelihood through legitimate means..Read more about the case here..Friday, March 3.Supreme Court stays BCI’s LL.B. age notification.The Supreme Court has stayed a notification issued by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to fix the upper age limit to 22 years for the five-year law course and 45 years for the three-year course to get admission in a law college..A bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao said it would examine the validity of the BCI decision to raise the age-limit from 20 to 22 years and putting a cap of 45 years for the three-year law course..Read full story here..Follow Bar and Bench channel on WhatsAppDownload the Bar and Bench Mobile app for instant access to the latest legal news.
