January 2022 Important Supreme Court Judgments : CLAT LLB/LLM/AILET/SLAT/NLAT/DU/MH-CET

SC upholds OBC quota in NEET

Neil Aurelio Nunes v. Union of India

Protecting Vulnerable Witnesses: SC

Supreme Court (SC) in Smruti Tukaram Badade  Versus State of Maharashtra expanded the meaning of vulnerable witnesses to also include among others sexual assault victims, those with mental illness and people with speech or hearing impairment.

Maharashtra seeks poll quota (In March, 2022 Final Verdict came)

Vikas Krishnarao Gawli Vs State of Maharashtra & Ors : The Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court urging for a recall of its direction to the State Election Commission to revert 27% seats reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in local body elections to general category.

COVID deaths: SC to steer payments : Gaurav Kumar Bansal Vs. Union of India and others

Use externment orders with caution: Supreme Court: Deepak v. State of Maharashtra

Drunk driving cannot be treated leniently, says SC [Brijesh Chandra Dwivedi (Dead) Through Legal Representatives v. Sanya Sahayak and Others].

SC verdicts have flagged the threat of hate speech

The seeming delay in taking criminal action against the perpetrators of hate speeches in Haridwar and Delhi is despite the Supreme Court’s judgments that hate speech is an attack on dignity in the “matter of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship” and threatens the unity of the nation as a whole.

In this news article, one judgment were mentioned. They were:-

AMISH DEVGAN VS. UNION OF INDIA (7^th December, 2020) The Supreme Court  refused to quash multiple FIRs against journalist for his alleged defamatory remarks against Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, observing that “persons of influence Amish Devgan, keeping in view their reach, impact and authority… owe a duty and have to be more responsible”.

SC Refuses to Give a Yardstick for Reservation in Promotions (Jarnail Singh Versus Lachhmi Narain Gupta)

Supreme Court declared that daughters will be entitled to inherit the properties of the father.

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