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The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea seeking an investigation into retired apex court judge Justice Kurian Joseph’s recent interview to a national daily. Lawyer Shashank Deo, who filed the petition, mentioned before a three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Read More…
The splitting up of recommendations is a matter of serious concern, and the CJI has taken it up with the PM was the grapevine ever since CJI Rajan Gogoi taken over in October in media and judiciary circle but been confirmed by Justice Kurian Joseph, who retired as the third senior-most judge of the Supreme Read More…
Justice Joseph who retired on November 30 shared details of his long and eventful career in the echelons of Indian judiciary, he said, “I started in the year 2000 in the High Court of Kerala as a judge, almost 10 years I was there. I went to Himachal Pradesh as the Chief Justice for three Read More…
At the outset, the alleged leak of Verma’s confidential response to the CVC’s findings on corruption charges against him irked the top court, which said none of “you deserve any hearing”. On the leak of Verma’s confidential reply in the media, the bench, without divulging the name of the “WIRE ” news portal, which allegedly 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…
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…
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…