Supreme Court News

Chief Justice of Bombay High Court  Dipankar Dutta can be summoned as a witness in a contempt case initiated by him against a Lawyer. Division bench headed by Chief Justice T. B. Radhakrishnan, with Justice Sanjib Banerjee while granting four weeks time to file reply appointed Advocate General as an Amicus to assist the Court. Counsel for Respondent Lawyer informed the Court that they want to file preliminary objection about maintainability of the contempt proceedings.                         While speaking to the media Mr. Ojha said; “ Since action under sec.14 of the Contempt of Court’s Act, 1971 was not taken on the spot and the Lawyer was allowed to leave the court hall, then subsequently  court is prohibited from taking cognizance and issuing show cause notice and proceedings are vitiated as per Calcutta High Court’s own Judgment in Manisha Mukharjee’s case. If proceeding goes further then the respondent Lawyer i...

∆     Petition filed against Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra seeking action under Contempt and Perjury.   ∆     Advocate Siddharth Luthra may face prosecution under sec. 409,109,120(B) of I.P.C., for the attempt of misappropriation of Supreme Court funds in conspiracy with others.                                   Adv. Nilesh Ojha                                  National President                                Indian Bar Association                                 Adv. Vijay Kurle                     Maharashtra &Goa State President           ...

Petition filed against Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra seeking action under Contempt and Perjury.   Advocate Siddharth Luthra may face prosecution under sec. 409,109,120(B) of I.P.C., for the attempt of misappropriation of Supreme Court funds in conspiracy with others.                                   Adv. Nilesh Ojha                                  National President                                Indian Bar Association                                Adv. Vijay Kurle                     Maharashtra &Goa State President                        ...

The order passed by the Three Judge Bench in the recent Suo Motu Contempt case against Adv. Prashant Bhushan has OVERRULED the order passed by 2-Judge Bench in the Suo Motu contempt case Re: Vijay Kurle and others. The Three Judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, in their order dated 22.07.2020 have followed to a T the procedure laid down in the Supreme Court Rules as well as the binding precedents of the Supreme Court unlike the order passed by the Bench of Justice Rohinton Nariman and Justice Vineet Saran that has thrown all the laws/rules/binding precedents out of the window. The Bench of Justice (Retd.) Deepak Gupta and Justice Aniruddha Bose had further perpetuated the illegalities committed by the Bench of Justice Rohinton Nariman instead of paying heed to the written and oral submissions of the alleged contemnors in Re: Vijay Kurle and others. The order passed by the three Judge Bench on 22.07.2020 in the matter of Prashant Bhushan has vindicated the arguments put forth by a...

Wanton abuse of power by Justice (Retd.) Deepak Gupta and Justice Aniruddha Bose in appointing a Private Counsel as ‘Amicus Curiae’ instead of the Attorney General/Solicitor General of India as mandated by Rule 10 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1975. Adv. Siddharth Luthra guilty of misappropriation of funds of the Supreme Court by joining the conspiracy by allowing himself to be appointed as an Amicus as against Supreme Court Rules in a contempt of court matter ⮚    As per the Rules, Bench had a choice of appointing either Attorney-General or Solicitor General as an Amicus Curiae in the Contempt Cases. ⮚    The order appointing  an ineligible Adv. Siddharth Luthra as an Amicus and entitling him to claim fee from the government is misappropriation of public funds and is an offence under Sec. 409, 120 (B), 109 & 34 of I.P.C. on the part of Justice Deepak Gupta, Justice Aniruddha Bose and Adv. Siddharth Luthra.               ...