[ad_1] The Supreme Court and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) currently do not have “sufficient technical and infrastructure wherewithal” to live-stream court proceedings without third party applications, the top court registry has said in reply to the plea of former RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya.The top court had on October...
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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a relief to lakhs of subscribers, the Supreme Court on Friday held that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) cannot seek an additional contribution of 1.16% of the salary from those drawing over Rs 15,000 without the government amending the law and opened a four-month window...
SC sentences Kenyan-Indian to 1 year jail, slaps Rs 25L fine in custody case, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] New Delhi, The Supreme Court has sentenced an Indian-origin Kenyan to one year imprisonment besides slapping a fine of Rs 25 lakh for civil and criminal contempt of court in a decade-long custody battle of his 11-year-old son.Smriti Madan and her Kenyan husband Perry Kansagra have been locked in...
Conviction can’t be based solely on extra judicial confession, says SC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday said when extra-judicial confession is not corroborated by any other reliable evidence, the conviction could not be based solely on such a weak piece of evidence.A bench comprising Chief Justice U.U. Lalit and justice Bela M. Trivedi noted that heavy reliance was...