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Supreme Court Quashes Pharma Supplier’s Blacklisting Over Quality Failure, Finds Effective Retesting Opportunity Denied
Kiran Raj The Supreme Court Three Judge Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta has quashed orders imposing a three-year blacklisting and a two-year drug-specific supply ban on a pharmaceutical supplier in Madhya Pradesh after four batches of its medicines were declared Not of Standard Quality. The Court held that authorities failed to follow the mandatory retesting procedure prescribed in the tend...
Motor Accident Claims | Victim Requiring Lifelong Attendant Can Be Considered To Have 100% Functional Disability Despite Lower Medical Disability Certification: Supreme Court
Kiran Raj The Supreme Court Division Bench of Justice S.V.N. Bhatti and Justice N.V. Anjaria enhanced compensation to ₹77.84 lakh and ₹69.60 lakh for two claimants injured in a scooter collision. The Court held that lifelong dependence on another person and the need for an attendant can justify assessing functional disability at 100%, despite a lower medical disability certification. Assessing the claimants’ functional disa...
Only Supreme Court Can Declare Its Judgments Cannot Be Cited As Precedents: Delhi High Court
Safiya Malik The High Court of Delhi Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Vinod Kumar held that only the Supreme Court can stipulate that its decisions cannot be cited as precedents, given their binding force under Article 141. In a dispute over a retired scientist’s retrospective promotions, the Court upheld the Tribunal’s order advancing his promotion to Scientist C, while clarifying that promotion...
AP municipal polls: Supreme Court Directs State Election Commission To Decide YSRCP’s Plea For Nomination Deadline Extension Where Law And Order Conditions Prevented Filing
Kiran Raj The Supreme Court Division Bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana on Wednesday directed the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission to decide by October 22 on the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party’s plea for extending the nomination deadline for urban local body elections. The Commission must consider representations submitted by the party and its candidates, along with supporting electronic e...
NCLT Kochi Rules, Directors Cannot Escape Liquidation Duties By Claiming One Director Managed Company Affairs
Sachin S Anil The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Kochi Bench, has held that directors cannot escape their statutory obligations during liquidation by contending that one director principally managed the company’s affairs. The Tribunal ruled that directors are required to cooperate with the liquidator and account for the company’s assets, even when they claim that they did not participate in its day-to-day management. “Havin...
CMRL-Exalogic Case: Supreme Court Stays Probe Into Kerala FIR Against Ex-CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Daughter And Son-In-Law For Seven Days; Directs HC To Hear Appeal On Merits
From the Editor's Desk The Supreme Court Division Bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana held that former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena Thaikkandiyil and son-in-law, former Minister Mohammed Riyas, could appeal before the Kerala High Court Division Bench against the Single Bench’s direction to register an FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic payoff case. That direction followed information fu...
