Summary of Landmark Constitution Bench Judgments of 2024 [Part I of III]
by Siddharth R. Gupta* and Aman Agarwal**
Members of Parliament
Land allocation at basic rates to privileged groups is ‘capricious’ and ‘irrational’; SC strikes down land allotment policy favoring Judges, MPs, MLAs, and Journalists in Hyderabad
“Government servants, elected legislators, Judges in the Supreme Court and High Court, and prominent journalists do not belong to the “weaker” or per se deserving sections of our society, warranting special State reservations to land allotment.”
MP High Court refuses to quash MP Vivek Tankha’s defamation case against Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
“Indisputably, the public good is a question of fact. Good faith has also to be established as a fact. Ergo, to prove good faith so as to constitute offence of Section 499 of IPC, trial is necessary.”
Delhi High Court asks Judges to prioritize criminal cases, appeals, revisions pending against MPs, MLAs
The Court requested all the Judges to refrain from adjourning the subject cases except for rare and compelling reasons.
30% reduction in salaries payable to MPs to meet exigencies of COVID 19 — Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020
President promulgates — Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020. Amendment of Section 3: after sub-section (1), insertion
J&K HC | Two MP’s given permission to meet Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, President and Vice-President of J&K National Conference; followed by some conditions
Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Sanjeev Kumar, J. while hearing a petition filed by Members of Parliament in respect to seeking permission
Supreme Court refuses to scrap the pension & other benefits to ex-MPs
Supreme Court: Upholding the Constitutional validity of certain Amendments made to the Salaries, Allowances and Pensions of Members of Parliament Act, 1954, the bench of J. Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan