Suspension Of MLAs: The Supreme Court has set aside the one-year suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The Supreme Court held that suspension for a year was ‘unconstitutional, substantively illegal and irrational’. The MLAs were suspended for misbehaviour in the Assembly pertaining to disclosure of data regarding OBCs. The challenge to […]
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Supreme Court Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation
Supreme Court (SC) Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation: The Supreme Court (SC) refused to lay down the “yardstick” for determining the inadequacy of representation for granting reservation in promotions for Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates in government jobs. The court’s judgement came in a batch of petitions from across the country […]
Non-Renewal of FCRA Registration
Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA): The Supreme Court asked 6,000-odd NGOs to go back to the government for redressal of their grievances on non-renewal of their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration. The FCRA was enacted during the Emergency in 1976 in an atmosphere of apprehension that foreign powers were interfering in India’s affairs by […]
Draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22: Delhi University
Draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22: Delhi University The Delhi University (DU) on Friday released a draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 22 (UGCF-2022) keeping in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) and has invited feedback on it from stakeholders till January 30. The new UG curriculum will come into force from next year when the university […]
Criminal Justice Reform: Slow Pace
Criminal Justice Reforms: Experts have expressed “serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice”. The delay in disposal of cases was leading to human rights violations of the under-trials and convicts. Despite the Supreme Court’s directions on police reforms, there had been hardly any changes on […]
Indian Environment Service (IES)
Indian Environment Service (IES): The Supreme Court asked the Centre to establish a dedicated Indian Environment Service (IES) at the all-India level. The creation of IES was recommended by a committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian in 2014. It will act as an expert group in the public and quasi-governmental sectors over the […]
Conjugal Rights
Conjugal Rights: A petition challenging the provision allowing restitution (recovery) of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws (Hindu Marriage act 1955).has been pending in the Supreme Court (SC) for months without a hearing. The petition, titled Ojaswa Pathak vs Union of India, was filed in the SC in February 2019. The case was last heard […]
Supreme Court on Property Inheritance
Inheritance: The Supreme Court ruled that the property of a man who had died without executing a will and is survived only by a daughter will devolve upon the daughter and not others such as his brother. The judgment, which came on an appeal against the Madras High Court verdict, dealt with the property rights […]
19ṭh Tranche of Electoral Bonds
Electoral Bonds: The 19ṭh tranche of electoral bonds, which have been pitched as an alternative to cash donations, were on sale, ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in five States. In the past, the Supreme Court has raised the possibility of misuse of money received by political parties through electoral bonds. This may defeat the […]
Deputation Of All India Services Officer
Deputation Of All India Services Officer: The Centre has proposed amendments to the IAS (Cadre) Rules in order to exercise greater control in central deputation of IAS officials, which has often been at the centre of tussles between the Centre and the states. Central deputation in the Indian Administrative Service is covered under Rule-6 (1) […]
