The Weekly Reports:Supreme Court of India

Last week at the Supreme Court was marked by opinions. The budget, collegium recommendations, etc. all formed a part of discussions in the corridors. Amidst this, several matters of interest came up..Read the highlights below..Monday, January 30.SC appoints interim committee for BCCI administration.The Court appointed a four-member committee of administrators headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai to run the affairs of the BCCI and implement court-approved recommendations of the Justice R M Lodha panel on reforms in the cash-rich cricket body..The other members of the Committee include Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji and Vikram Limaye..A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud selected these four persons after considering the suggestions made by Amicus Curiae Gopal Subramanium and Anil Divan and Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal who appeared for certain State cricket associations..Read full story here..Tuesday, January 31.Is monetary compensation sufficient remedy for denial of admission, SC refers to larger Bench.Whether grant of monetary compensation can be considered as the sole and adequate remedy for a student who has been deprived of admission to the MBBS course, despite he or she being meritorious?.A two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Rohinton Fali Nariman has referred this question of seminal importance to a larger Bench. In the process, the Court will re-consider its own decision in Chandigarh Administration & Anr. v. Jasmine Kaur & Ors [(2014) 10 SCC 521]..Narmada Bachao: Supreme Court says no to returning land but moots compensation committee.The Supreme Court has today floated the possibility of a Committee being set up to deliberate the amount of compensation to be granted to those who were displaced by Narmada Dam Project..A Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justices NV Ramana and DY Chandrachud today accepted that the adivasis and locals of the region had “been wronged, without a doubt” but refused to entertain the possibility of stopping the developmental work and re-issuing the land to the aggrieved..Friday, February 3.Collegium recommendations under the scanner.The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Naveen Sinha, M Shantana Goudar, Dipak Gupta and S Abdul Nazeer for elevation as Supreme Court judges..Justice Chelameswar, who has not been attending Collegium meetings since September last year had conveyed his approval to the Collegium in writing while also attaching a dissent note regarding non-consideration of Justice K M Joseph..Read full story here..CUPA to move Supreme Court against criticism of Radhakrishnan J and Banumathi J.NGO Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA) will approach the Supreme Court against the criticism levelled against Justice R Banumathi and Justice (Retd.) KS Radhakrishnan in various media for their judgments in the Jallikattu matter..Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra mentioned the matter before Justice Dipak Misra and pointed out various articles making allegations against the judges..Read full story here..Supreme Court to hear Nirbhaya convicts’ on sentencing aspect afresh.In a major development in the 2012 Nirbhaya case, the Supreme Court has accepted Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran’s submissions that there has been violation of procedure with regard to the sentencing of the four convicts..A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan decided that it would hear afresh the matter with regard to sentencing of the four convicts..The Court implicitly accepted Ramachandran’s submissions that the mandate under Section 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was not followed by the trial court and the Delhi High Court..Read full story here..SC refuses to stay the screening of Jolly LLB 2.The makers of the film Jolly LLB 2 have approached the Supreme Court against a decision of the Bombay High Court, which had directed a three-member committee to watch the movie and submit a report..A Bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Ashok Bhushan asked the petitioners to wait for the Bombay High Court to decide the issue, and kept the case pending till then..The case is a result of the petition filed by Ajaykumar Waghmare in the Bombay High Court. Waghmare had moved the High Court alleging that scenes in the movie depict the Judiciary and the legal professional in bad light..He had contended that he had watched the promos and trailers of the movie and it contained scenes depicting lawyers playing cards on court premises and a judge hiding under the dais to evade objects being hurled in the court..Read the full story here.