Decide on disqualification pleas against Sena MLAs by Dec 31: SC directs Maharashtra Speaker
Oct 31, 2023, at 02:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court Monday directed the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to decide the disqualification petitions against Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs by December 31 with respect to last year's political crisis in the state.
Supreme Court rejects Manish Sisodia's bail plea in Delhi excise policy scam
Oct 30, 2023, at 05:11 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the bail pleas of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy scam case, media reports said.
Oct 19, 2023, at 07:26 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Delhi Police and sought its response after hearing the pleas of NewsClick's founder and EIC, Prabir Purkayastha, and HR Head, Amit Chakraborty.
Supreme Court declines to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages
Oct 19, 2023, at 05:26 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday in its verdict declined to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages, noting that it is only for the Parliament and state legislatures to create such institutions and grant them legal validation.
Supreme Court says 'no' to same-sex marriage, directs Centre to find administrative solutions
Oct 17, 2023, at 07:55 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court, which in 2018 decriminalized homosexuality in India nullifying a colonial era law, on Tuesday refused to give recognition to same-sex marriage, but directed the central government to look into the issues of administrative problems faced by the homosexual couples, media reports said.
Supreme Court Collegium recommends two judicial officers of Tripura as HC judges
Oct 12, 2023, at 06:44 pm
Agartala/UNI: The Supreme Court Collegium on Wednesday recommended the appointment of two judicial officers of Tripura as judges of Tripura High Court.
Supreme Court extends interim bail to former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik
Oct 12, 2023, at 06:36 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court, in its order on Thursday, extended the interim bail of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra Minister, Nawab Malik, by three months on health grounds in a money laundering case.
Supreme Court to review abortion order after Centre's concern for unborn
Oct 11, 2023, at 04:47 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Just 24 hours after the Supreme Court ordered a medical termination of pregnancy of a 26-week-old pregnant mother, the Centre cited a serious dilemma that the unborn child can be alive if aborted.
Kamduni gangrape & murder: Calcutta HC acquits death penalty awardee, Bengal govt moves SC
Oct 07, 2023, at 06:20 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal government Friday decided to move the Supreme Court after the Calcutta High Court acquitted a capital punishment awardee and commuted the death sentence of two others to life imprisonment over the gang rape and murder of a 21-year-old college student at Kamduni in North 24 Parganas, an incident that shook West Bengal 10 years ago.
Supreme Court judge recuses from hearing Chandrababu Naidu's plea in skill development scam
Sep 28, 2023, at 01:59 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: A Supreme Court judge Justice S V N Bhatti Wednesday recused himself from hearing former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's petition seeking quashing of the FIR lodged against him in the alleged skill development scam case.
Lakhimpur Kheri case: SC allows accused Ashish Mishra to visit family in Delhi
Sep 27, 2023, at 02:00 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed Ashish Mishra, accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri case, to visit and stay in the NCT of Delhi to look after his ailing mother and get treatment for his daughter.
SC asks Chandrababu Naidu to mention petition to quash FIR in skill development scam tomorrow
Sep 25, 2023, at 06:16 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, mentioned his plea on Monday before the Supreme Court to fix a date for his case to be heard, seeking to quash the FIR in the Andhra Pradesh Skill Development scam case.
SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh directed by Supreme Court to pay $1 million monthly to clear arrears
Sep 25, 2023, at 05:42 am
New Delhi/UNI: The The Supreme Court of India has ordered Ajay Singh, the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of SpiceJet, to pay $1 million every month for the next six months to clear arrears amounting to $3 million owed to Credit Suisse.
Supreme Court bans all firecrackers, including green crackers in Delhi-NCR
Sep 22, 2023, at 06:21 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Supreme Court, in its order on Friday, banned all firecrackers, including green crackers in Delhi, and said we can say only "Happy Diwali", keeping in view the kind of pollution in Delhi-NCR.
Karnataka govt to move Supreme Court challenging CWMA's order
Sep 19, 2023, at 06:37 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said his government would move the apex court to challenge CWMA's order, asking the state to continue to release 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for another 15 days.
Sep 19, 2023, at 05:39 am
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has slammed Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar over delays in ruling on the disqualification of lawmakers in the Sena vs Sena row that took off after some lawmakers quit the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and joined the rebel faction led by now chief minister Eknath Shinde.
Supreme Court refuses to entertain Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's plea against ED summons
Sep 18, 2023, at 08:30 pm
New Delhi/UNI: No relief for Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren with the Supreme Court on Monday refusing to entertain his petition and asking him to approach the Jharkhand High Court first to challenge the ED summons in connection with an alleged illegal mining case.
Rahul Navin replaces Sanjay Kumar Mishra as in-charge director of Enforcement Directorate
Sep 16, 2023, at 05:46 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre Friday appointed special director Rahul Navin as in-charge director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till the name of the regular director is announced, according to an official order.
Validity of sedition law: Supreme Court refers pleas to 5-judge larger Constitution bench
Sep 12, 2023, at 07:18 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Supreme Court, in its order on Tuesday, referred to at least a five-judge Constitution bench in the batch of petitions challenging the sedition law 124-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Sep 07, 2023, at 02:04 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court in its interim order on Wednesday protected three senior journalists from arrest till September 11, who gave a fact-finding report on behalf of Editors' Guild of India (EGI) on 'biased' reporting by local journalists on the brutal ethnic clash related issues in Manipur.
SC reserves verdict on a batch of pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370 in J&K
Sep 06, 2023, at 01:49 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI Supreme Court's five-judge Constitution bench Tuesday reserved its judgement on the batch of pleas challenging the validity of the Centre's August 2019 decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcate it to Union Territories.
Ready for J&K elections, can't give exact timeline for restoring statehood: Centre to SC
Aug 31, 2023, at 11:02 pm
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was ready to hold elections any time in Jammu and Kashmir, but could not give an exact timeline for restoring its statehood.
'Ready to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir but...': Centre to Supreme Court
Aug 31, 2023, at 08:06 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was ready to hold elections any time in Jammu and Kashmir, but could not give an exact timeline for restoring its statehood.
Supreme Court asks Centre to inform it of a timeframe to make J&K state again
Aug 30, 2023, at 01:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Attorney General (AG) and Solicitor General (SG) to get instructions from the Centre if there is a timeframe to make Jammu and Kashmir a state again while hearing submissions in defence of the abolition of Article 370.
Pulwama terror attack forced Modi govt to scrap Article 370: Centre tells SC
Aug 29, 2023, at 05:42 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The 2019 Pulwama terror attack that left 40 paramilitary personnel martyred had triggered the Modi government to scrap Article 370, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday, media reports said.
Article 35A deprived Jammu and Kashmir non-residents of fundamental right: Supreme Court
Aug 29, 2023, at 05:11 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Backing the Modi government's landmark step, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Tuesday said (now scrapped) Article 35A of the Indian Constitution used to deny non-residents of erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir their fundamental right.
'Only Centre can conduct caste census,' Supreme Court informed over Bihar caste survey
Aug 29, 2023, at 05:49 am
New Delhi/IBNS: No other body other than the Union Government can conduct a caste census, the Centre informed the Supreme Court in an affidavit on Monday.
J&K lecturer allegedly suspended soon for arguing against Article 370 abrogation in Supreme Court
Aug 29, 2023, at 01:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: The Supreme Court Monday asked the country's top law officer, Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani, to find out reasons from the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, over the suspension of lecturer Zahoor Ahmad Bhat for allegedly appearing in person before the apex court and arguing against the abrogation of Article 370.
Kashmir lecturer suspended soon after arguing in Supreme Court against Art 370
Aug 28, 2023, at 06:53 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the country's top law officer, the Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani, to talk to the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, and find out the reasons for the suspension of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, a teacher, for appearing in person before the apex court and arguing against the Abrogation of Article 370.
Dying declarations can't always be basis for conviction: Supreme Court
Aug 26, 2023, at 04:21 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court Wednesday said that dying declarations of a murder victim cannot be the sole basis for conviction of the accused "in cases where suspicion... is raised as regards the correctness (of the statement)".