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Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Ashok KM August 18, 2018 12:34 pm Change Font Size The Attorney General for India KK Venugopal has donated Rupees One Crore to Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, to help the victims of flood havoc. His son and Senior Advocate Krishnan Venugopal has contributed another Fifteen Lakhs for the relief activities. Senior Advocate Chander Uday Singh has already contributed Five Lakhs to the fund. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had earlier called upon Advocates to contribute to the “SCBA Calamity Relief Fund” in order to help the food-hit people of the State. Reportedly an amount of Rs. 30,00,000 already lying in the fund is being transferred for the cause. As per the latest reports over 82,000 people in Kerala have been displaced due to the floods that have ravaged the State over the last nine days. As of Friday night, 164 were killed between August 8 and 17, and more than 3,14,000 people have … [Read more...] about Kerala Floods: Attorney General KK Venugopal Donates Rupees One Crore To CM’s Relief Fund

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK August 24, 2018 12:17 pm Change Font Size Attorney General for India KK Venugopal has submitted his suggestions on live-streaming of Court proceedings. He was responding to a petition filed by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising seeking a declaration for permitting live streaming of Supreme Court case proceedings of constitutional and national importance having an impact on the public at large and a direction to make available the necessary infrastructure for live streaming and to frame guidelines for the determination of such cases which are of constitutional and national importance. Recommendations 1. At the outset, it is submitted that Live Streaming of Court proceedings should be introduced as a pilot project in Court No. 1 and only in Constitution bench references. The success of this project will determine whether or not live streaming should be introduced in all courts in the Supreme Court and in … [Read more...] about Live Streaming Of Supreme Court Proceedings : Read AG KK Vebugopal’s Recommendations To SC

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: MEHAL JAIN October 1, 2018 10:56 pm Change Font Size Attorney General K. K. Venugopal has voiced his disagreement with the growing opinion against judges accepting post-retirement jobs. “So many years of worthy experience would be in vain if that were to be the order of the day!….How would the tribunals and commissions function?”, he advanced. He was speaking at the farewell function of outgoing Chief Justice Dipak Misra organized by Supreme Court Bar Association. He also recommended raising the retirement age of judges. It was his case that for there to be quality judges, it is logical that the remuneration of the members of the bench be increased manifold. Expressing relief at Chief Justice-designate Justice Ranjan Gogoi having formulated a plan to tackle the alarming and ever-piling pendency that plagues the justice delivery system, the AG stressed that a reform of the system is the need of the hour, … [Read more...] about Judges Should Accept Post-Retirement Jobs, Increase Salary And Retirement Age Of Judges: AG KK VenuGopal

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: MEHAL JAIN October 31, 2018 12:14 pm Change Font Size The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice U. U. Lalit and Justice K. M. Joseph on Wednesday required the Centre to apprise it of the details as to the pricing and cost of the 36 Rafale fighter jets sought to be procured from Dassault under an inter-governmental agreement with France, the advantages thereof, if any, in a sealed cover in the next ten days. On October 10, the court had considered two PILs by Advocates M. L. Sharma and Vineet Dhanda regarding the Rafale deal. The bench had sought from the Attorney General the details of the steps involved in the decision leading to the new deal. The CJI led bench had, however, clarified that the details so sought would not cover the pricing or the suitability of the equipment for the Indian Air Force, bearing in mind the sensitive nature of the matter. Also listed on Wednesday was Aam Aadmi Party MP … [Read more...] about Rafale Hearing-“If The Pricing Can’t Be Shared, File An Affidavit To That Effect”:CJI Gogoi To AG KK Venugopal [Courtroom Exchange]

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: MEHAL JAIN November 12, 2018 12:19 pm Change Font Size Attorney General K. K. Venugopal on Monday expressed his dissatisfaction with the approach of the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi of peremptorily dismissing petitions without according an adequate opportunity of hearing. “Clients come from far away, from thousands of miles away. They stand at the back and look at this court….as their counsel stands and you say, ‘dismissed!’….This is not the way….Your Lordships have to hear completely! Please see the other courts….”, advanced the AG. “Okay….We take what you are saying in proper spirit….please argue….”, allowed Chief Justice Gogoi. The facts of the case are that a SLP of the year 2015 is pending before the Supreme Court where the petitioner has challenged the Constitutional validity of Entry Tax Act and the demand raised … [Read more...] about ‘Can’t Dismiss Petitions Like This’: AG KK Venugopal To CJI, ‘We Take Your Remark In Proper Spirit’:CJI Gogoi