NEW DELHI: There has been no forward movement on the names reiterated by SC collegium headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud for appointment as HC judges as he demits office as the chief justice of India on Nov 10.The collegium had in Jan 2023 reiterated the names of advocates Saurabh Kirpal for elevation as a…
NEW DELHI: Terming the controversy over the PM’s visit to his residence for Ganpati puja as “unnecessary, unwarranted and illogical”, CJI D Y Chandrachud on Sunday said heads of political executive visit judges’ houses for social occasions but independence of judiciary is so deeply entrenched that judicial matters are “never ever discussed”.The PM and CMs…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Sunday shared his personal experience dealing with the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute and said that he prayed to God for a solution. During a felicitation ceremony in his native village of Kanhersar, CJI revealed that he had sought divine intervention to find a resolution to the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday spurned the Union govt’s invitation to direct application of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) to citizens irrespective of their religion and personal laws but suggested that Parliament should consider outlawing child betrothals as well.Delivering a 141-page judgment on a PIL highlighting the persistence of child marriages on…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday said the “multi-dimensional assault of child marriage” was not only oppressive to heterosexual girls and boys but also to all genders and sexual minorities as it robbed them of vital autonomy in choosing their sexual orientation and choice of partner.A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices…
CJI DY Chandrachud (File photo) NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India DY Chadrachud on Monday reprimanded a petitioner in the Supreme Court and reminded the party-in-person about court room etiquettes.The petitioner who was seeking a probe against former CJI Ranjan Gogoi and while responding to a question by the apex court, replied ‘yeah, yeah’.This miffed…
NEW DELHI: “Sensitive material” with the Centre is holding up the implementation of the SC collegium‘s recommendations for appointments of chief justices of high courts, attorney general R Venkatramani told Supreme Court on Friday to explain what is impeding execution of the decisions taken by the collegium, which has the sole say in appointments to…
NEW DELHI: Taking serious note of “judicial indiscipline” of Punjab and Haryana high court judge Rajbir Sherawat by showing defiance towards a Supreme Court order, CJI D Y Chandrachud and four most senior judges decided to form a bench on Wednesday to decide the future course of action in regard to the HC judge’s July…
First of the four, including CJI Chandrachud, who would retire this yearNEW DELHI: Justice Aniruddha Bose, often referred to by CJI DY Chandrachud as a perfect Bengali ‘bhadralok’ whose intellectual brilliance matched with his sartorial elegance off the court by dressing in crisply ironed dhoti and punjabi, retired on Wednesday after a five year tenure…
