Things Happened Today | 16th January
5 Judge Constitutional Bench: CJI (Chief Justice of India) Dipak Misra constituted 5 judges Constitutional Bench to hear major and crucial cases. However the bench doesn't include Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph. The
5-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A K Sikri, Justice
A M Khanwilkar, Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan, will
commence the hearing on a range of crucial matters from January 17.
The judges who have been included in the 5-judge constitution bench had last year heard various constitution bench matters from October 10, which includes the power tussle between the Centre and the Delhi government over administrative jurisdiction and a matter relating to passive euthanasia. The bench would now hear the contentious issue of the ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age in Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, pleas which have raised a question as to when will a lawmaker, facing a criminal trial, stand disqualified, validity of a penal law on adultery, which only punishes a married man for having an extra-marital sexual relationship with a woman married to someone else.
CJI Meets 4 Senior Colleagues: CJI (Chief Justice of India) on Tuesday reached out to four of his senior most colleagues for a discussion on the issues regarding the judicial administration of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Dipak Misra invited Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph to his official chamber in the Supreme Court for a discussion in the morning. The discussion will continue on January 17.
Haj Subsidy: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said there will be no subsidy for Haj from this year. The government said it will use the subsidy funds to empower the minorities. In 2012, a Supreme Court order directed the Haj subsidy to be gradually phased out in the coming ten years. In 2017, a Central Haj Committee meeting decided to do away with the subsidy by the following year.
Padmaavat: Haryana government today banned the release of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat. Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have already banned the film.
Vyapam Scam: The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) today filed a fresh charge sheet against 95 accused in connection with a Madhya Pradesh’s Vyapam scam case. CBI charged 83 candidates, four Vyapam officials and eight middlemen. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the Samvida Shala Shikshak Patrata Pariksha Varg-3 Examination-2011 conducted by Vyapam (Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal). “It was revealed from the files contained in the hard disk of the computer of the then principal system analyst of Vyapam that marks of certain candidates were allegedly increased to enable them to qualify the said test,” CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.
Reliance in West Bengal: At the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata, today chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Mukesh Ambani said RIL will invest ₹5,000 crore in West Bengal, mainly in petroleum and retail sector. He said the investment would be made over the next three years and promote the electronics industry by manufacturing mobile phones and set top boxes.
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The judges who have been included in the 5-judge constitution bench had last year heard various constitution bench matters from October 10, which includes the power tussle between the Centre and the Delhi government over administrative jurisdiction and a matter relating to passive euthanasia. The bench would now hear the contentious issue of the ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age in Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, pleas which have raised a question as to when will a lawmaker, facing a criminal trial, stand disqualified, validity of a penal law on adultery, which only punishes a married man for having an extra-marital sexual relationship with a woman married to someone else.
CJI Meets 4 Senior Colleagues: CJI (Chief Justice of India) on Tuesday reached out to four of his senior most colleagues for a discussion on the issues regarding the judicial administration of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Dipak Misra invited Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph to his official chamber in the Supreme Court for a discussion in the morning. The discussion will continue on January 17.
Haj Subsidy: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said there will be no subsidy for Haj from this year. The government said it will use the subsidy funds to empower the minorities. In 2012, a Supreme Court order directed the Haj subsidy to be gradually phased out in the coming ten years. In 2017, a Central Haj Committee meeting decided to do away with the subsidy by the following year.
Padmaavat: Haryana government today banned the release of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat. Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have already banned the film.
Vyapam Scam: The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) today filed a fresh charge sheet against 95 accused in connection with a Madhya Pradesh’s Vyapam scam case. CBI charged 83 candidates, four Vyapam officials and eight middlemen. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the Samvida Shala Shikshak Patrata Pariksha Varg-3 Examination-2011 conducted by Vyapam (Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal). “It was revealed from the files contained in the hard disk of the computer of the then principal system analyst of Vyapam that marks of certain candidates were allegedly increased to enable them to qualify the said test,” CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.
Reliance in West Bengal: At the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata, today chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Mukesh Ambani said RIL will invest ₹5,000 crore in West Bengal, mainly in petroleum and retail sector. He said the investment would be made over the next three years and promote the electronics industry by manufacturing mobile phones and set top boxes.
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