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Supreme Court today witnessed a battle field on weather to conduct Rafale scam probe or not The apex court, which began its hearing on pleas seeking a court-monitored probe into the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France, also said it was dealing with the requirements of the Air Force and would like to Read More…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended till November 28 interim protection from arrest to CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana, accused of graft by his own agency. The CBI had registered a case against Asthana on the basis of a complaint from Hyderabad-based businessman Satish Sana, facing probe in the 2017 case allegedly involving meat Read More…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on a batch of petitions, including the one filed by former Union Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie, pertaining to the Union government’s 2016 deal with France to buy Rafale fighter jets. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Read More…
In a major setback to tradition seeking Hindus The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay its verdict allowing entry of women of all age groups into the Sabarimala temple but agreed to hear in open court on January 22 a batch of review petitions in the matter. The review petitions against the September 28 Read More…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, fixed December 4 to hear the Special Leave Petition filed by Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Mr Rahul Gandhi and Mr Oscar Fernandes to challenge the dismissal by the Delhi High Court of their plea challenging the re-opening of their Income Tax assessment for the year 2010-11. The Supreme Court Bench comprising Read More…
SC bench led by CJI Gogoi on Tuesday deferred hearing of three fresh writ petitions regarding entry of women of all age groups in Sabarimala temple. SC said writ petitions would be heard after the review petitions are decided either way. So now, three fresh writ petitions will only be heard by a bench comprising Read More…
The Centre on Monday complied with a Supreme Court order and handed over to petitioners, who sought a court-monitored CBI probe into the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France, the document detailing the decisions taken to procure the aircraft. The document titled “Details of the steps in the decision-making process leading to the Read More…
The Supreme Court has summoned Bihar DGP to explain the state police’s failure to arrest former state minister of JDU party Manju Verma in a case related to the recovery of ammunition from her home during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual abuse scandal. Expressing shock over the non-arrest, justice Read More…
The Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing a plea made by CBI director Alok Verma and put the matter for consideration on Friday in view of the delay in filing of an inquiry report by the Central Vigilance Commission. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul noted that the CVC Read More…
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Union government, the Election Commission and others after a plea by Kaka Rama Krishna, former CPI MLA from Andhra Pradesh, asked for taking action on the “illegal use of huge money” by the candidates in Parliamentary and Assembly polls. A three-judge bench presided over by Chief Read More…
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge Saturday moved the Supreme Court against the Centre’s decision of sending CBI director Alok Verma on leave, saying it was “illegal” and was in violation of the CBI Act. In his petition, Kharge, who is the leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, said only the three-member committee of leader of Read More…
Agarwal passed away on October 11 after undertaking a 111-day fast, demanding unrestricted flow of river Ganga. The Supreme Court on Friday allowed followers of ‘Save Ganga’ crusader Prof GD Agarwal alias Swami Gyan Swaroop, to have ‘darshan’ and pay their last respect to the environmental activist who died after undertaking a 111-day hunger strike. Read More…
Justices Hemant Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, MR Shah and Ajay Rastogi were on Friday, November 2, sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court, taking its strength to 28. Unlike last time where the appointment of Judge Joesph has caused bitter war between centre and SC , this time the central government processed the file Read More…
In a major setback to centre inspite of objections by Attorney General the apex court directed the government to provide details of pricing and cost of fighter planes to it in next 10 days. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices U U Lalit and K M Joseph also directed for providing Read More…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined early hearing on petitions seeking review of its September 28 verdict allowing women of all age groups into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala and said they have been already listed for hearing. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices U U Lalit and K M Jospeh was Read More…
The Supreme Court collegium on Monday cleared names of justice R Subhash Reddy, justice Hemant Gupta, justice M R Shah, and justice Ajay Rastogi for elevation as Supreme Court judges. According to two people familiar with the collegium proceedings, Gujarat high court chief justice Reddy, Madhya Pradesh high court chief Justice Gupta, Patna high court Read More…
In a major set back to ambitious Hindutva groups outlets the Supreme Court declining an urgent hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute case, said Monday an appropriate bench will decide in January when to hear the politically sensitive case, sparking demands by Hindutva groups for a law to begin construction of a Ram temple at Read More…
The Centre has filed before the Supreme Court details of Rafale deal decision making process in sealed covers. The apex court on October 10 had asked the Centre to provide details of the decision making process in the Rafale fighter jet deal sans pricing and technical specifications. The direction to the Centre was issued on Read More…
The Supreme Court ordered the Central Vigilance Commission to complete probe against CBI director Alok Verma under the supervision of former Supreme Court Judge AK Patnaik on Friday. In a major set back to ruling BJP government the top court also ordered that interim CBI boss Nageshwar Rao will only carry out ‘routine duties’ and Read More…
Kerala police Thursday detaining over 1000 people in a crackdown on those allegedly involved in the violent protests against entry of women of all ages into the hilltop sabarimala temple In the regard Kerala police had filed cases against 2000 persons and issued a lookout notices against 210 persons. “In a major swoop, we detained Read More…
Ayyappa, the presiding deity of Sabarimala temple considered “naishtika brahmachari” (eternally celibate), since its door opened for a five-day pooja on October 17. No pooja was performed on the first day of the opening of the temple. The doors to the shrine will close at 10 pm Monday. Nearly a dozen women have been turned Read More…
Supreme Court on Tuesday said only green firecrackers, which are less polluting, will be allowed to be sold in the country. The Court, however, banned the sale of firecrackers on e-commerce websites. The court order is not limited only to Diwali; durations have been fixed for bursting of crackers on all events and festivals. On Read More…
The Supreme Court on Monday said it was “wholly unacceptable” that 5133 posts of judicial officers out of the total of 22036 posts in district courts across the country were lying vacant. Taking suo motu action, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul used its extraordinary power under Article 142 Read More…
Amid ongoing protests, feminist activist Rehana Fathima, reporter Kavitha Jakkal and Woman devotee Mary Sweety tried to enter the Sabarimala temple today, three days after it was opened for women of all ages. As the temple entries are blocked by devotees against the Supreme Court verdict to allow women of menstruating age to enter the Read More…
According to the report, prepared by Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide, India is among the 45 countries that have “serious levels of hunger”. In 2017, India was ranked at the 100th position . India is ranked below many neighbouring countries, including China (25th spot), Nepal (72), Myanmar (68), Sri Lanka (67) and Bangladesh (86). Pakistan is Read More…
Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema and was speaking in Kerala. Actor Kollam Thulasi who is also a supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made the horrifying remark at an NDA rally that drew blank amongst Social media bloggers Actor Kollam Thulasi made a bizarre statement on Friday saying Read More…
A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta made this observation while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) which said that export of meat cannot be encouraged or promoted in the country. “We cannot pass an order that everyone should become vegetarian,” the bench told the counsel appearing for the petitioner organisation. The Read More…
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi however made it clear that these steps would not cover the issue of pricing of the Rafale. The court also refused to issue a notice to the centre regarding the same. “We have not taken into account the averments made in the writ petition and this Read More…
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who on Wednesday sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India, is the first person from the Northeast to reach the top position of judiciary and will have a tenure of a little over 13 months before retiring on November 17, 2019. He succeeds Justice Dipak Misra who demitted office on Read More…
Swedish telecom equipment company Ericsson was to get the payment from the business transactions it had done with the embattled Anil Ambani group that has debt running up to Rs 45,000 crore. Ericsson had earlier agreed to scale down its dues towards Ambani’s group from Rs 1,600 crore to Rs 550 crore as part of Read More…
The apex court order disallowing telcos from using the faster Aadhaar-based verification system could slow the pace of subscriber additions significantly, potentially delaying the company’s plan to acquire a 50% revenue market share, analysts said. Jio added 11.78 million customers in July, outpacing Airtel’s 313,000, Vodafone India’s 609,000 and Idea Cellular’s paltry 5,489, according to Read More…
A high-power committee meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan discussed various arrangements to be made for women devotees, days after the Supreme Court opened the gate of the temple for women of all age. Chief Secretary Tom Jose, Chief Minister’s Private Secretary M V Jayarajan, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) member K P Sankardas and Read More…
The Supreme Court, in a historic verdict on Friday, allowed the entry of women of all ages into the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala. A Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Rohinton Nariman, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, by a majority of 4:1, held that denial of entry to women Read More…
Section 497 of the 158-year-old IPC says: “Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence Read More…
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to refer to a five-judge Constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam which had arisen during the hearing of Ayodhya land dispute. In a divided verdict of 2:1, the apex court bench headed by Chief Read More…
The Supreme Court Wednesday said its 2006 verdict putting benefits of quotas in job promotions for SC/ST employees need not be referred to seven-judge bench. The apex court also turned down the Centre’s plea that overall population of SC/ST be considered for granting quota for them. The unanimous judgement was pronounced by a five-judge Constitution Read More…
Today Apex court said it wasn’t mandatory to link Aadhaar to bank accounts or mobile numbers, but that that the identification was compulsory for the filing of I-T returns and for the allotment of Permanent Account Numbers (PAN). It said no child can be denied benefits of any schemes if he or she can’t produce Read More…
Today Supreme Court washed it hand and said Parliament should make a law to ensure candidates with criminal antecedents don’t enter public life and take part in law-making Earlier the Ruling bjp government has contended that the judiciary shouldn’t venture into the legislative arena by creating a pre-condition which would adversely affect the right of Read More…
President Ram Nath Kovind has cleared the appointment of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India. He will take over from CJI Dipak Misra on October 3 2018 and continue in office till November 17, 2019. Justice Gogoi, who will take over as the 46th CJI, will be the first in the Read More…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court extended the five activists’ house arrest term, stating that they would continue to be grounded till September 17, when the apex court will hear the matter. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud adjourned the hearing on the plea filed by Read More…
Supreme Court Monday asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to decide on the merits and maintainability of the issue raised by the Tamil Nadu government on Vedanta’s plea challenging the closure of its Sterlite plant at Tuticorin. A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Indu Malhotra said it has already asked the NGT to Read More…
The Supreme Court Friday took exception to the fact that only 11 of the 29 states and seven union territories have filed reports regarding compliance of its order directing them to take steps to deal with mob lynchings and cow vigilantism. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khawilkar and DY Chandrachud Read More…
The 493-page judgement was written by four judges headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. While CJI’s verdict was 166 pages, Justice Nariman filed a 96-page judgment, Justice DY Chandrachud filed a 181-page judgement, and Justice Indu Malhotra’s judgement was 50 pages. Slamming petitioner Suresh Kumar Kaushal’s views that gay sex should be criminalised Read More…
Former Kolkata high court judge, Justice Karnan written a letter to the registrar general of the supreme court of India saying, “I have passed a judicial order against 8 convicted accused/anti-social element/terrorist Judges namely, Former CJI JS Khehar, CJI Dipak Misra, former justice Chelameshwar, justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Madan B Lokur, justice PC Ghose, Justice Read More…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the petition filed by Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit seeking a SIT probe in the Malegaon Blast case. According to a Bar and Bench report, the apex court also said that it did not consider it appropriate to interfere in the case. The Apex Court asked him Read More…
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred hearing of the petition challenging the constitutional validity of Article 35A till the second week of January 2019. The SC said it would take up the matter after the Panchayat polls in the state had concluded in December 2018. Stating that the government of India argued before SC that Read More…
The Supreme Court today heard a plea challenging the arrest of five activists who were rounded up for alleged Maoists links from different parts of the country on Tuesday. Maharashtra Police had arrested five left-wing activists Sudha Bhardwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, and Arun Ferreira on Tuesday. Following this Apex court has then Read More…
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the Centre’s submission that the sub-committee of the Mullaiperiyar dam had met on August 23 and directed the Tamil Nadu government to ensure that the water level is maintained at 139 feet until 31st august 2018 , which Read More…