Author: NitiRiti Bureau

New Delhi, Feb 27. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea to set up a committee under the Home Ministry to rename Indian cities and roads, with observations that “history cannot be selectively erased”, nor a “particular community be harassed over the past”. “Hinduism is a great religion. Don’t belittle it,” Justice K.M. Joseph observed. The other judge on the bench Justice B.V. Nagarathna insisted that “Hinduism was a way of life and not a religion”. The country is secular, she said. Justice Joseph also said that the courts were a secular forum just as the Home…

New Delhi, Feb 24. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained Sona Mandhira from using Sona BLW’s trademark/trade name/logo “SONA” in any manner or any other trademark/trade name/logo containing ‘SONA’. Justice Navin Chawla granted an interim injunction on Feb 22, 2023. Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. (Sona BLW) had filed a suit against use of its registered and well-known trademark “SONA”, by Sona Mandhira Pvt. Ltd. Sona BLW claimed that Sona Mandhira had deliberately and illegally adopted a completely identical trade name “SONA” as part of its corporate name, despite being fully aware of Sona BLW and its predecessors uninterrupted,…

New Delhi, Feb 24. The Supreme Court’s green bench on Friday stayed for now the laying of concrete paver blocks in the Matheran Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ) as part of a pilot project for trial of e-rickshaws in the hill station. The bench, comprised Justices B.R. Gavai and Vikram Nath, also directed the Monitoring Committee established (under Notification S.O. No. 133(E) dated 04.02.2003) of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India, to submit a detailed report on the pilot project. In the interim the court stayed the laying of paver blocks. The report will be submitted in…

New Delhi, Feb 23. The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera be released on bail in a case filed against him in Assam over his alleged disrespectful remarks against PM Narendra Modi during a press conference on the Adani controversy recently. The Opposition leader was detained at the Delhi airport by Assam police while he was on way to Chhattisgarh. He was ostensibly offloaded from the flight. He will now be produced before the appropriate court under which the airport falls. Khera had apologised for his “inadvertent” remarks the very same day. However, at least three…

New Delhi, Feb 21. Children are entitled to right to privacy and bodily integrity and DNA tests cannot be ordered routinely by courts, especially to prove infidelity charges against the wife, the Supreme Court has said in a ruling delivered on Monday. “… children have the right not to have their legitimacy questioned frivolously before a court of law. This is an essential attribute of the right to privacy. “… children are not to be regarded like material objects, and be subjected to forensic, DNA testing, particularly when they are not parties to the divorce proceeding. It is imperative that…

New Delhi, Feb 17. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a suggestion to have a sitting judge examine if there were any loopholes in India’s existing regulatory mechanism, as alleged by the Hindenburg report on the Adanis, and instead said that it would set up an independent panel of experts to see if the existing regulatory structures ought to be overhauled to prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future. Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud immediately dismissed the suggestion made by one of the petitioners seeking to get to the bottom of the matter. “A Supreme Court judge…

New Delhi, Feb 17. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a National Company Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order affirming penalty of INR 751.83 crores on Heineken’s subsidiary, United Breweries Limited, in an alleged beer cartel case. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had on Sept 24, 2021, found UBL, SABMiller India Limited (now renamed as Anheuser Busch InBev India Ltd.), Carlsberg India Private Limited, and the All-India Brewers’ Association guilty of cartelization in the beer market. The CCI had imposed a total penalty of about Rs 862 crores on these entities. UBL was directed to pay Rs 751.83 crores of this.…

New Delhi, Feb 13. The Indian Constitution doesn’t confer any fundamental right on a citizen to carry arms unlike the US Constitution which permits every citizen to carry arms in self-defence, the Supreme Court said on Monday, expressing concern over the proliferation of unlicensed arms in the country. To check the possession and use of such illegal firearms, the top court instituted a suo motu case to get the authorities in Uttar Pradesh to arrest what it dubbed as a “disturbing trend”. “Unlike the US Constitution where the right to bear arms is a fundamental right, under the wisdom of…

New Delhi, Feb 13. The government on Monday claimed in the Supreme Court that its regulatory body and statutory regime were adequate to deal with the after-effects of any Hindenburg kind of expose’, which wiped off thousands of crores of Adani investors overnight, but agreed to have an expert committee to examine the issue at length as suggested by the court. The government, however, warned the top court that the remit of any such committee would have to be very “limited” lest the fact that the court was “monitoring” the situation send an “unintentional message” to international investors and “adversely…