NEW DELHI: Gyanesh Kumar will take over as the 26th Chief Election Commissioner tomorrow – on a day the Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the 2023 law under which his appointment was made by the Centre late on Monday night.The appointment, which is the first under the new law, was made by a…
Photo credit: Screengrab/ Supreme Court YouTube channel NEW DELHI: Justice Sanjiv Khanna took oath as the 51st Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Monday. President Droupodi Murmu administered the oath in a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh, vice president Jagdeep Dhankar, and former CJI D Y Chandrachud…
NEW DELHI: Personal setbacks and achievements matter little to CJI-designate Sanjiv Khanna, whose family, nearly half a century ago, took in its stride the unceremonious supersession of his uncle Justice H R Khanna, who stood up for citizens’ rights undaunted by the might of Union govt during the dark days of Emergency.He himself was fourth…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Thursday took a swipe at recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on the occasion of Ganpati Chaturthi, suggesting that it might raise doubts about judicial impartiality in the minds of the public.Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut questioned the appropriateness of the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday participated in Ganpati Puja at Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud‘s residence in New Delhi. In a video, Chandrachud and his wife Kalpana Das were seen welcoming PM Modi at their house. PM Modi is then seen performing puja at their residence. The prime minister is seen wearing…
NEW DELHI: CJI D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said more and more young women are choosing judiciary as their first choice of career and revealed that in the latest rounds of recruitment of judicial officers, women comprised 72% in Kerala, 66% in Delhi, 58% in Rajasthan and 54% in UP. Speaking at the national conference…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled the stamp and coin during National Conference of District Judiciary commemorating 75 years of the establishment of the Supreme Court.Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, CJI DY Chandrachud and President of Supreme Court Bar Association, Kapil Sibal were also present in the inaugural programme.The two-day Conference will…
NEW DELHI: Justice Hima Kohli, the eighth woman to become a Supreme Court judge, bid farewell to judiciary on Friday ending her 40 year association with law – 18 years as a constitutional court judge and 22 years prior to that as a lawyer – with a final request to Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud:…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Sunday took suo motu cognizance of the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata.A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the case on August 20.The apex court’s intervention comes after widespread…
NEW DELHI: Accepting the problem faced by litigants and their frustration due to protracted hearing and delay in justice delivery, CJI D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said the process itself sometimes becomes a punishment which is a matter of grave concern.Speaking at the conclusion of a week-long special Lok Adalat drive in the apex court…
