Supreme Court Legal News Evaluation criteria set by the Army for women engaged on Short Service Commissions seeking Permanent Commissions is arbitrary and irrational. SC held that benchmarking these officers with the officers lowest in merit in the corresponding male batch constituted systemic discrimination Decided on 25th March, 2021 Lt. Col. Nitisha & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors For full text of judgmentclick here

Supreme Court Legal News Unless free speech affects the public order it cannot be stifled by initiating criminal proceedings: SC quashed the FIR against Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim over a FB post Decided on 25th March, 2021 Patricia Mukhim v. State of Meghalaya & ors. For full text of judgmentCLICK HERE

Supreme Court Legal News The homebuyers as a class having assented to the resolution plan cannot maintain a challenge to the resolution plan and cannot be treated as a dissenting financial creditor or an aggrieved person under IBC.: SC held Decided on 24th March, 2021 Jaypee Kensington Boulevard Apartments Welfare Association & Ors. v. NBCC (India) Ltd. & Ors. For full text of judgment CLICK HERE

Supreme Court Legal News Not to charge "interest on interest/compound interest/penal interest" for the period during the loan moratorium from any of the borrowers and any amount so recovered shall be refunded or adjusted. :SC rules rejecting the relief of total waiver of interest. Decided on 23rd March, 2021 Small Scale Industrial Manufactures Association (Regd.) v. Union of India and Ors. For full text of judgment CLICK HERE

Supreme Court Legal News SC overruling N.V. International v. State of Assam held that a cut off of 120 days cannot be judicially engrafted onto a statutory provision which then bars condonation of delay by even one day beyond the cap so engrafted for filing appeals under Section 37 of the Arbitration Act. Further held that a delay in filing an appeal under section 37 can be condoned by way of exception and not by way of rule. Decided on 19th March, 2021 GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA v. M/S BORSE ...