Education – Admission to Postgraduate Dental Course – Even if on the last date of admission, seats remained vacant was no ground by the institutions/colleges to grant admissions unilaterally and that too without intimating the vacant seats to the Directorate – High Court directing admissions quashed

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH DENTAL COUNCIL OF INDIA — Appellant Vs. SAILENDRA SHARMA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and M.M. Sundresh, JJ. ) Civil…

Service Matters

UGC Regulations – Appointment of Vice Chancellor – – State Act if not on a par with the UGC Regulations, must be amended to bring it on a par with the applicable UGC Regulations and until then it is the applicable UGC Regulations that shall prevail – A subordinate legislation, UGC Regulations become part of the Act –

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH PROFESSOR (DR.) SREEJITH P.S. — Appellant Vs. DR. RAJASREE M.S. AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah and C.T. Ravikumar, JJ. )…

Service Matters

All India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969 – Rules 6, 8 and 10 – Neither the procedure as being known to the scheme of Rules 1969 nor further action, if any, initiated has been placed on record – The stage to inflict penalty upon the appellant, in the given facts and circumstances, does not arise.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH DR. AJIT KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and C.T. Ravikumar,…

There is no rule to the effect that a dying declaration is inadmissible when it is recorded by a police officer instead of a Magistrate. HELD The “two-finger test” or pre vaginum test must not be conducted – It has no scientific basis and neither proves nor disproves allegations of rape. It instead re-victimizes and re-traumatizes women who may have been sexually assaulted, and is an affront to their dignity

The “two-finger test” or pre vaginum test must not be conducted – It has no scientific basis and neither proves nor disproves allegations of rape. It instead re-victimizes and re-traumatizes…