The Terrorist Acts defined under Unlawful Assembly Prevention Act only deal with matters impacting “Defence of India” and not under Ordinary laws & Order Problems. The intent and purport of the Parliament in enacting the UAPA, and more specifically in amending it in 2004 and 2008 to bring terrorist activity within its scope, was, and could only have had been, to deal with matters of profound impact on the ‘Defence of India, nothing more and nothing less.
In this Criminal Appeal, the Supreme Court quashed criminal proceedings, quashing charges u/s 120-B, 420, 468 and 471 of Indian Penal Code 1860 & S.13(2) r/with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and held that continuing the criminal trial would cause great oppression & prejudice, when the appellants had played no active role... Read more » Read more »
The presence of an arbitration clause does oust the jurisdiction under Article 226 in all cases though, it still needs to be decided from case to case as to whether recourse to a public law remedy can justifiably be invoked. Read more »
In Ajay Protech Pvt. Ltd. v. General Manager & Anr., 2024 INSC 889, the Supreme Court clarified that under Section 29A(4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, courts can extend the mandate of an arbitral tribunal even after its expiry, provided “sufficient cause” exists. The tribunal’s mandate, which lapsed on 09.04.2021, was extended till 31.12.2024... Read more » Read more »
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