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LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS - June 2022

Jun 2022

Jan 17, 2023

Supreme Court Issues Notice to Centre, National Medical Commission on Mandatory Internship for Ch...

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union government and the National Medical Commission (NMC) on a petition filed by 70 China-educated medical graduates challenging a circular that made a two-year internship compulsory for them.
The orders were passed by a Bench of Justice B. R. Gavai and Justice Vikram Nath.
A batch of petitions were been filed in the Apex Court by Indian medical students studying in Ukraine, China and Philippines, seeking to continue their education in India.
The top court of the country had segregated the pleas made by China-graduated students from others in November, as they had resorted to online education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and not because of any war-like situation, which was the case in students educating in Ukraine.

Jan 16, 2023

Committee Headed by Justice P.S. Narasimha to Revisit Framework on Categorisation of Cases Formed...

A 6-member case Categorisation Advisory Committee headed by Justice P.S. Narasimha was constituted by the Supreme Court to revisit the existing framework relating to the categorisation of judicial matters according to the subject categories.
The Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court, Sunil Chauhan will serve as the secretary of the committee.
The committee comprises of Senior Advocate Aruneshwar Gupta, advocates-on-record K Parameshwar, Gaurav Agrawal and Vanshaja Shukla as its other members.
The broad charters of the committee are to examine the existing framework of subject categories and sub-categories.
It would also suggest changes and suggest schemes for categorisation of matters. It would also look into identifying the overlapping in the subject categories/ sub-categories.
The Committee work will also comprise of identifying and suggesting renaming or merging existing subject categories and/ or sub-categories.

Supreme Court Pulls up Madras High Court for Quashing Criminal Proceedings against YouTuber in Hurry

The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court for quashing criminal proceedings registered against a YouTuber in a hurry, without giving adequate time for the investigating agency to probe the charges.
The bench of Justice M.R. Shah and Justice C.T. Ravikumar, while setting aside the High Court order, noted that the Madurai Bench should not have quashed the FIR registered against YouTuber Maridhas Malaichamy, without giving adequate time to the probe agency to investigate.
The Supreme Court noted that the FIR in the case was lodged on December 9, 2021, while the quashing petition was filed on the very next date and within a period of four days on December 14, 2021, the single-judge bench of Justice G.R. Swaminathan passed an order, quashing the criminal proceedings against the accused.

Jan 14, 2023

Bench of Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Recuses from Hearing Review Plea against Appointment o...

Chief Justice (CJ) Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad of the Delhi High Court rescued themselves from hearing a review petition challenging appointment of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India (CJI).
The review petition was filed against an order of the High Court dated November 11, 2022, by which the petition challenging appointment of CJI Chandrachud was dismissed by the High Court.
The same bench of CJ Sharma and Justice Prasad who rescued had passed the dismissal order then.
The Court in its November order, had put a fine of Rs. 1 lakh on the petitioner, Sanjeev Kumar Tiwari, who is the president of an organisation named Gram Uday Foundation.

Jan 13, 2023

Madras High Court Designates 62 Lawyers as Senior Advocates

The High Court of Madras High notified the designation of 62 lawyers as Senior Advocates.
The notification was issued under Section 16 (2) of the Advocates Act, 1961.
About 175 applications were received after the notifications were issued in September 2020 and June 2022. The permanent committee had approved 149 eligible applicants. Interviews with these applicants took place between November 16 and 23, 2022.

Jan 12, 2023

National Heritage Status for Ram Setu: Supreme Court Directs Centre to File Affidavit

The Supreme Court directed the Union of India to file its affidavit on a petition seeking national heritage status for Ram Setu by the first week of February.
The matter was mentioned by petitioner-in-person and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy before the Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice P.S. Narasimha.
Swamy told the Apex Court that the Central government had earlier committed to submit a counter by December 12, but it was yet to file the same.
The petitioner then requested the Court to summon the Union Cabinet Secretary as the matter was related to the Cabinet. Appearing for the Union government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought time till February first week, stating that the matter was under consideration.

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