Author: NitiRiti Bureau

Two judges differ, say any affirmative action only on the basis of economic criterion, which keeps out the SCs, STs (among the country’s poorest), is Orwellian Nitiriti Bureau New Delhi, November 7. In a 3:2 ruling the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the 103rd constitutional amendment which enables state governments to set aside up to 10 percent of quotas for the purely economically weaker sections or the poor as valid. The amendment will allow state governments to bring in separate laws providing for up to 10 per cent admission and job quotas for the poor defined as those with annual…

Nitiriti Bureau New Delhi, Nov 7. The Supreme Court has asked the Maharashtra government to begin paying compensation or Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of persons who went missing during the riots in Mumbai in 1992 and 1993. The state government shall pay compensation of Rs 2 lakhs to legal heirs of the missing persons traced out hereafter, with interest at the rate of 9% per annum from Jan 22, 1999, from the expiry of six months from the date of a second government resolution allowing this till actual payment. Payments to next of kin of missing in 9 months These payments will have to be made in the next nine…

Nitiriti Bureau New Delhi, Nov 7. The Supreme Court has held that High Courts have no power to direct any bank or a financial institution to grant any one-time settlement (OTS) benefits or extend the time granted to pay up dues under any such scheme. The borrower and the creditor bank can mutually agree to extend the time permissible under Section 62 of the Indian Contract Act, the court said. A court order to the bank to reschedule the payment under OTS would tantamount to modification of the contract in violation of the Act. Rescheduling payment under an OTS scheme and granting extension of time would tantamount to…

* Allows govt to rethink how to garner more pension funds, including asking employer to pay more New Delhi, Nov 6. In a ruling delivered on Friday, the Supreme Court upheld an Aug, 2014, notification amending the government’s 1995 employees’ pension scheme, as “legal and valid” but stayed its order for six months to allow the government to give necessary legislative teeth to the changes introduced via an executive order. The government will also get a window to examine how to best increase the pension fund base, including asking employers to cough up more for the pension fund. Till then, the court said,…

New Delhi, Nov 5. The Supreme Court has said that LTC (Leave Travel Concession) paid to government employees must not involve any foreign travel and must be paid for the shortest route possible between two places in India, otherwise the employer will have to pay tax on such income. LTC is a payment made to an employee which is exempted as “income” and hence under normal circumstances, there should be no question of deducting TDS on this payment, a top court bench, led by outgoing CJI Uday Umesh Lalit said. But in this specific case, two employees of State Bank…

Nitiriti News Bureau New Delhi, Nov 1. The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings of forgery and cheating initiated against former Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal over the alleged filing of two separate Constitutions of the Shiromani Akali Dal before two different fora i.e., the Election Commission and the SGPC. Hoshiarpur resident Balwant Singh Khera filed a criminal complaint against the SAD leaders, including Daljit Singh Cheema, before the additional chief judicial magistrate in 2009. He accused them of filing two different Constitutions, one to the poll panel and another to the highest Sikh…

Nitiriti Bureau New Delhi, Oct 31. The Supreme Court on Monday lamented the use of the two-finger test in rape cases, decades after it had outlawed it, and said that it would now treat the use of the test as a “misconduct”. The test is carried out by the medical fraternity to establish whether a woman, who claimed to have been raped, was sexually active or not. Whether a woman is “habituated to sexual intercourse” is irrelevant for the purposes of determining whether the ingredients of Section 375, IPC, or rape, are made out, a bench, led by next in…

चंडीगढ़ विश्वविद्यालय में सात लड़कियों ने नहाते समय एमएमएस (MMS) वीडियो कथित तौर पर लीक होने के बाद आत्महत्या करने की कोशिश की। आरोप है कि हॉस्टल में ही रहने वाली एक लड़की ने करीब 60 लड़कियों का नहाते वक्त वीडियो बनाकर अपने ब्वायफ्रेंड को भेज दिया था। ऐसी घटना किसी के साथ भी हो सकती है और आपको देश के कानून के बारे मे जानकारी होनी चाहिए। कुछ साइबर कानूनों पर एक नज़र डालें जिनके जरिए आप सीधे FIR करा सकते हैं। सरकारी पोर्टल cybercrime.gov.in पर ऑनलाइन रिपोर्ट कर सकते हैं। सवाल 1- साइबर क्राइम क्या है ? उत्तर1-…

नीतिरीति ब्यूरो नई दिल्ली सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने अपने एक ऐतिहासिक फैसले में कहा है कि एक विवाहित महिला अपने पति से बलात्कार का शिकार होती है और उसकी वजह से वह गर्भवती होती है तो उसे उस गर्भ को बगैर किसी के इजाज़त के गिराने का अधिकार है। जस्टिस डी वाई चंद्रचूड़ की अध्यक्षता वाली तीन जजों की बेंच ने कहा कि पति या साथी की हिंसा आज एक वास्तविकता है और ये बलात्कार का रूप ले सकती है जिससे एक महिला गर्भवती हो जाती है। अदालत की यह टिप्पणी काफी महत्वपूर्ण है क्योंकि भारतीय कानून भारतीय दंड संहिता यानी…

INTERVIEW WITH EX COLONEL AMIT KUMAR 1. You have challenged the scheme in the Delhi High Court. What are your prayers before the court? Ans: Quash the scheme and do not implement it with retrospective effect. 2. Does the Agnipath scheme mean an end to the normal recruitment process in the armed forces? Ans: Yes. 2. Is the scheme intended to drastically cut down the defence budget? If so, will it affect operational preparedness? Ans: This is where the government is not clearing the air. But if you see the ground realities and the fact that pay, allowances and pensions…