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Madhan Mohan Punchhi, who passed away aged 81 last night, was Chief Justice of India (CJI) between 18 January 1998 and 9 October 1998.
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As was being speculated, the Supreme Court of India has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Test (AIPMT) for the academic session 2015-2016 and has asked the organising body, the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), to re-conduct the test within four weeks, which the CBSE today told the apex court was impossible.
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The Supreme Court has announced that it will open a child care centre on 1 July at in chambers numbers 8 and 9 of the New Lawyers’ Chambers Building at Bhagwan Dass Road, which will be equipped with “child friendly furniture, utensils, toys and play materials and first aid kit”.
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Two publications, Livelaw, which caters to lawyers, and The Hoot, which primarily has journalists as an audience, have written about Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra’s legal notice against Legally India.
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In last and previous years, there was only a one week miscellaneous week on either side of the apex court’s summer vacations.
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The hearing between advocate Deepak Khosla and Khaitan & Co in Kolkata on Thursday (18 June) will be video recorded, in what may be a first in any of the country’s high courts.
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A 42-year-old Bandra resident was booked for drunk driving allegedly, after having locked herself in her car for two hours, chain smoking, allegedly in order to avoid taking a breathalyser test by Mumbai police, who have stepped up their controls of drunk drivers, focusing in particular on women, after lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killed two when driving drunk last week, reported DNA.
The stalemate was eventually broken, according to an officer, who said: “There was a lot of smoke inside the car and anything could have happened due to extreme suffocation. So we had to break the glass and rescue her.”
She was charged with section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act (driving under the influence) and section 110 of the Bombay Police Act (indecent behaviour in public.
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The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that any invalidation of the NJAC for the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary would not result in the automatic resurrection of the collegium system of appointment.