Youth should be aware of social realities and challenges: CJI

  • Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Sunday said the Unity and sacrifice of young people across faiths, beliefs and communities. 

  • He also added, “any change in the nation's trajectory always stems from its youth and their participation”.

  • He said that “it is for you to build the ideal nation and society that you desire to witness”.


Delhi High Court provided consent for marriage registration through video link

  • Justice Rekha Palli remarked that the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014, which made registration of marriages solemnised in Delhi compulsory

which needed reinterpretation to “encourage parties to easily get their marriages registered “.

  • The couple got married at Delhi on December 6, 2001 as per Hindu rites and ceremonies. As the couple requires a marriage registration certificate, the court held that the parties seeking registration of their marriage under the Registration Order through video conferencing.


Supreme Court awarded more time for filing a response in the Pegasus Case:

  • On August 17, the court issued notice to the Centre by making Centre by making it clear that it didn’t want the government to disclose any information comprises of national security.

  • The Bench also asked the Centre what the “problem “ was if the competent authority filed an affidavit before the Court  on the issue.


Delhi HC questioned the Bengal's handling of Transfer Requests 

  • The West Bengal government was trotting out a shortage of officers as the reason for rejecting the request of inter cadre transfer, without issuing relevant material on the record. 

  • The Court observed that, “only if the reasons set out in the order of refusal for inter-cadre transfer are backed by relevant material, it cannot pass the muster of the Court”.

Appointment of 31 new members for NCLT and ITAT:

  • Nearly 250 seats at the various tribunals are vacant, the Supreme Court continuously criticising the Centre by emasculating the tribunals by not appointing the officials. 

  • Now, the Government has appointed 31 new members as technical, judicial and accountant members at the National Company Law Tribunal and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.

 

Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court permitted a NEET Aspirant to attend her exam despite of the fact that her photograph was wrongly printed:

  • The court directed the authorities at the examination Centre at Solamalai College of Engineering in Madurai to permit the candidate to write her exam though her photograph was wrongly printed.


Stay on transfer of sole High School Teacher by MP High Court 

  • If an order transferring only employees from a school of 72 students without an alternative, it might draw the  presumption that the government has no compassion for the future of its students.  And it added that it’s prima facie “illegal”.

  • Rule 89(5) of CGST Rules upheld by Supreme Court

  • Rule 89(5) of CGST Rules provided a formula excluding the refund of ‘unutilised input tax’ paid on ‘input services’ as part of ‘input tax credit’ (ITC) which was challenged in a case known as “Union of India v. VKC Footsteps India Private Ltd, now upheld by the Apex Court. 


26 Myanmar nationals held in Guwahati

  • The Guwahati police on Sunday arrested 26 Myanmar nationals, 10 of them women.

  • All the 26 were found to be from Falam district of Myanmar, a few of them teenagers. They told the police they were headed for a religious programme in Delhi.

  • More than 10,000 Myanmar nationals of Chin stock have taken refuge in Mizoram since the military coup in the neighbouring country in February.



Saudi, Iranian Foreign Ministers to visit India

  • A week after hosting intelligence and security chiefs of U.S. and Russia, New Delhi is preparing for visits by the Saudi and Iranian Foreign Ministers, officials confirmed, as part of a series of engagements aimed at “broadbasing” discussions on Afghanistan with partner countries.

  • Both engagements are expected to focus on bilateral issues, the developments in Afghanistan will be a key component, as they have been in bilateral conversations with partners in Europe and Australia in the past few weeks.


Iran to allow nuclear surveillance

  • Iran agreed to allow international inspectors of  IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to install new memory cards into surveillance cameras at its sensitive nuclear sites and to continue filming there, potentially averting a diplomatic showdown this week

  • Tehran holds all recordings at its sites as negotiations over the U.S. and Iran returning to the 2015 nuclear deal remain stalled in Vienna. 

  • Iran is now enriching small amounts of uranium to its closest ever levels to weapons grade purity as its stockpile continues to grow.

Extracted & Compiled by- Ms. Divya, B. Com. LLB (Hon.) Student, School of Excellence in Law (SOEL), Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University 
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