The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the government to restore the Army Chief Gen V K Singh's date of birth as May 10, 1951 saying it was not maintainable in law.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to Bharti Airtel and Vodafone on a BSNL petition, seeking that the private telecom operators pay interconnection charges, along with penalty, for transferring to its network their calls that did not identify phone numbers.
The bench also allowed various firms producing Endosulfan to become parties to the plea against the controversial pesticide, which is said to have harmful effects on environment and human beings.
Bench, however, did not pass any order against 68 other mines
The bench directed the companies to place before it their 2010-11 balance sheets and statements of accounts for November 2011 by January 8, the next date of hearing.
A bench presided by Chief Justice S H Kapadia stated in the order the new petition was almost identical to the one withdrawn earlier.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the seven-year trading ban imposed by market regulator Sebi on Pyramid Samaira Theatre for its fraudulent initial public offer.
The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the Uttar Pradesh government from carrying out building and construction activities for the installation of statues and memorials of Dalit icons, including Chief Minister Mayawati, at a park in Noida adjacent to the national capital.
Lalli, who assumed the CEO's post in December 2006, was indicted by the Central Vigilance Commission, which accused him of breach of Parliamentary privilege, giving undue favours to some broadcast companies and financial mismanagement.
The government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the issue of a chargesheet against Central Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas in a corruption case and the sanction granted by the Kerala government for his prosecution were not brought before the high-powered committee for selecting a candidate for the post.This was stated by Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati before a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia.
Justice S H Kapadia, the senior most judge of the Supreme Court, was on Wednesday sworn in as the 38th Chief Justice of India by President Pratibha Patil.
In a morale booster to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's pet project, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld environmental compatibility of the Noida park scheme, also being developed into a memorial for Dalit icon B R Ambedkar and her political mentor late Kanshi Ram.
The apex court also postponed the date of hearing to July 19, 2011, from the previously scheduled hearing on February 5.
During Friday's proceedings, senior advocate Fali S Nariman, appearing for the Sahara group, said that Sahara was not a listed company and only the government has jurisdiction over it and not market regulator Sebi.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition of international Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing his claim for Rs 28.5 lakh tax exemption, which he maintained was paid to his father in return for training him.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia held that the transfer of debts between banks is legal and the Banking Services Regulation Act allows this activity.
The Supreme Court collegium has decided to drop its recommendation for elevating Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing charges of land grabbing, to the apex court, bringing to end months of controversy over the move. The collegium led by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and including Justice S H Kapadia, Tarun Chatterjee, Altamas Kabir and R V Raveendran, met on Thursday evening and decided to take back the recommendation for his elevation.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to go into a batch of Public Interest Litigations challenging constitutional validity of the notification on composition of a committee to draft the Jan Lokpal bill, saying the petitions were "premature".
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to all the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking to restore against them the stringent charge of culpable homicide, which attracts a maximum punishment of 10 years' jail term.
A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia, while disposing of Sebi's plea, also expunged the Securities Appellate Tribunal's observations on Sebi's adjudicating officer Amit Pradhan. Pradhan had imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) on Goldman Sachs Investment (Mauritius) for furnishing 'false' declarations citing violation of the Sebi(Foreign Institutional Investors) Regulations, 1995.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
Kingfisher Airlines had moved the Supreme Court against a probe into its two-year-old strategic alliance with Jet Airways.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar, directed the companies to pay Rs 1,200 crore as the amount due for the state government.
An advocate, who has moved the Supreme Court for a probe into the assets of close relatives of K G Balakrishnan, was on Friday allowed by the Supreme Court to submit additional documents related to the property acquired by them after he had become the Chief Justice of India.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked Attorney General G E Vahanvati to apprise it about the status of a complaint filed in May last year against former chief justice of India and chairman of the National Human Rights Commission K G Balakrishnan, seeking a probe by the CBI into his assets. "What is the status of the complaint forwarded to the ministry of home affairs," a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia sought to know.
A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has posted the matter for the hearing on December 9. PWC had challenged the Calcutta high court's judgement that held that the firm had failed to furnish its true and correct particulars of accounts while filing the returns.
Sebi is locked in a turf battle with insurance regulator IRDA over who has jurisdiction over ULIPs.
A lawyer, who had sought a direction from the Supreme Court for a CBI probe into Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's alleged proxy stake in the Kochi IPL franchisee, on Thursday withdrew his petition.
The judgment has serious tax implications for multinationals, which hitherto were taking the plea that no tax was deducted on home salary, with the apex court ruling that TDS provisions can be extended beyond the country's borders in the case of salaries.
The retailer was forced to shut its network of supermarkets across India due to acute financial crunch.
The Supreme Court has accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice A M Ahmadi as the Chairman of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust looking after the treatment of the gas victims.
"Special leave is not a matter of right vested in the employee. It depends on the administrative exigencies," a bench of Justices S H Kapadia and Aftab Alam said while striking down a direction passed by Punjab and Haryana high court.
The Bench said that the Chief Justice of India would form a larger bench to decide the issue.
The Supreme Court has issued notices to 23 states and three UTs on a petition by Tata Motors seeking quashing of the Central Sales Tax Appellate Authority's decision asking it to pay Central Sales Tax to the tune of around Rs 14 crore (Rs 1 40 million) on sale of bus chassis to the Andhra Pradesh government.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued contempt notice to noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan for allegedly casting aspersions on some of the judges, including a senior most apex court judge and previous Chief Justices of India in an interview to a news magazine.
The apex court has already issued notices on the petition challenging the order issued by Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh and the government in its counter has justified caste-based reservation.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an application challenging the order of Uttar Pradesh Governor T V Rajeshwar refusing sanction for the prosecution of state Chief Minister Mayawati in the Taj Corridor case. A bench comprising Justice S B Sinha, Justice S H Kapadia and Justice D K Jain dismissed the application filed by amicus curiae Krishan Mahajan, challenging the order of the governor.
The bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia directed Vodafone to deposit Rs 2,500 crore within three weeks and a bank guarantee of Rs 8,500 crore within 8 weeks.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought reply from PricewaterhouseCoopers as to why the non-resident company should not pay advance tax on fee charged by it for providing services in India.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on an appeal by Anil Ambani firm Reliance Airport Developers challenging the Delhi high court verdict, which upheld the government's decision to allot modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.