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Supreme Court said that authorizing the Central Government to lay down the terms of mining leases and grant approval to concessions, the MMDR Act seeks to ensure that there is uniformity in the terms for working of mines and extraction of minerals.
“The payments made to the Government cannot be deemed to be a tax merely because the statute provides for their recovery as arrears”.
The imposition of such a requirement was manifestly proper, as judicial officers are required to appreciate the evidence in the State’s language.
The Supreme Court refused to grant interim relief at this stage.
This matter was the oldest pending nine-judge Bench case before the Supreme court. The Bench had reserved its judgment in the matter on 14-03-2024
On 22-07-2024 the Supreme Court has asked the Director of IIT, Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee to give their opinion regarding the correct answer to a multiple-choice question of NEET-UG 2024, for which the NTA awarded marks for two options.
Supreme Court directed NTA to complete this exercise till Saturday noon.
In National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, the Court directed the Centre and State Governments to treat transgender persons as ‘Socially and Educationally Backward Classes’ of citizens and extend reservation in admission in educational institutions and for public appointments.
“Legitimate expectation, jurisprudentially, was a device created to maintain a check on arbitrariness in state action. It does not extend to and cannot govern the operation of contracts between private parties, wherein the doctrine of promissory estoppel holds the field.”
The Telangana High Court’s order quashing the cheating case against BMW was upheld and the direction for the replacement of the old defective vehicle with a new vehicle was set aside.
Justice Manoj Misra is the sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in February 2023 and has formerly served as a Judge in the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
In Anshuman Singh Rathore v. Union of India, 2024 SCC OnLine All 857, U.P. Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 was held as unconstitutional for being violative of the principle of secularism, Articles 14, 21 and 21-A of the Constitution and violative of Section 22 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
“The grant of a pre-trial injunction against the publication of an article may have severe ramifications on the right to freedom of speech of the author and the public’s right to know.”.
A curative petition is a petition which requests the court to review its own decision even after a review petition is dismissed. It is considered as the last and final option available for redressal of grievances.
Supreme Court expressed that “The power to transfer investigation must be exercised in exceptional circumstances. Such powers cannot be exercised in the absence of cogent justifications.”
“Generally, prospective adoptive parents have to wait for 3-4 years for getting ‘a healthy and young child’ due to the huge mismatch in the number of registered PAPs and children available for adoption.”
“Sexual harassment in any form at the workplace must be viewed seriously and the harasser should not be allowed to escape from the clutches of law.”
Supreme Court said that the delivery will be conducted by AIIMS at the appropriate time and the Union Government will bear all the medical costs for the delivery.
Justice Manoj Misra is the sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in February 2023 and has formerly served as a Judge in the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
Supreme Court said that the denial of promotion was on the ground that candidates do not possess the prescribed requisite qualification namely “Diploma in Civil Engineering”, and not because they possess a two-year diploma not three-year diploma.