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India News: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a 10-day-old Delhi high court order quashing GST imposed on oxygen concentrators, imported for personal. ....
The SC on Thursday finalised its view on recalling retired high court judges to function ad hoc for a fixed tenure to help clear the huge backlog of cases but said re-engagement of former HC judges would not be in lieu of regular vacancies in an HC, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. A bench of CJI S A Bobde and Justices Sanjay K Kaul and Surya Kant asked additional solicitor general Rupinder Singh Suri to file an affidavit detailing the Centre’s view on how to shorten the procedure for appointment of ad hoc judges. Article 224A of the Constitution provides that “the chief justice of an HC for any state may at any time, with the previous consent of the President, request any person who has held the office of a judge of that court or of any other HC to sit and act as a judge of the HC for that state.” ....
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday appointed two special judges to expeditiously complete trials in 41 pending cases in the illegal coal block allotment scandal, which had rocked the UPA-2 government headed by Manmohan Singh in 2014, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Coal block allocation scam cases were brought to light by a PIL filed by advocate M L Sharma and during which the SC had chastised the CBI for being a “caged parrot” ostensibly for the then CBI director rushing to the then law minister to vet the probe status report prior to its submission before an SC bench headed by Justice R M Lodha. ....
File photo NEW DELHI: Facing a challenge to his Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat last year, foreign minister S Jaishankar told the Supreme Court that the appeal failed to disclose any cogent reason and said the Election Commission was right in holding separate elections for the two RS seats falling vacant after the resignations of Amit Shah and Smriti Irani, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. “The grounds taken in the petition are imaginary and have no legal basis. Allegations .are wrong and baseless. .The appeal does not deserve indulgence of the SC and the appellant should not be granted any relief.,” Jaishankar said. ....