NEW DELHI: The pressure on judges comes not just from the political executive, but also from private interest groups, CJI D Y Chandrachud said, during an extensive and frank interaction as Guest Editor of The Times Of India on Saturday.Elaborating, the CJI, who demits office on Monday, said private interest groups use news TV and…
NEW DELHI: After rendering positive rulings in numerous PILs on diverse issues – gender justice, rights of disabled, queer and marginalised, CJI D Y Chandrachud signed off on Friday by entertaining the last PIL in his 25-year-long career that pleaded for including Indian healthcare system in PM Jan Arogya Yojana.The petitioner was serial PIL litigant…
NEW DELHI: Three judges on the seven-judge bench penned powerful dissents to the CJI D Y Chandrachud-authored majority opinion on behalf of four judges and were unanimous that the 1967 Azeez Basha judgment had correctly decided that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was not a minority educational institution.Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Satish C Sharma…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said that minorities have no absolute right to administer educational institutions, while upholding the validity of Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education Act, 2004 – a decision that will clear the uncertainty hanging over 13,364 madrassas in the state with over 12 lakh students since March 22 when Allahabad…
NEW DELHI: Justice Hrishikesh Roy, who has made it a habit to utter the last few words in a lighter vein after pronouncement of judgments by nine-judge benches led by CJI D Y Chandrachud, on Tuesday said he had both a compliment and a complaint. After the majority opinion ruled that material resources of community…
NEW DELHI: Justice Hrishikesh Roy was given the honour of saying the last word after pronouncement of judgment by CJI D Y Chandrachud in sync with the tradition that evolved during the hearing of the Centre-state dispute over controlling alcohol. “The judgment (majority and dissenting) is now delivered, and since the case relates to intoxicating…
Justice Nagarathna disagreed on overruling the 1989 judgment by a seven-judge bench led by her father and then CJI ES Venkataramiah. (Agencies) NEW DELHI: Justice B V Nagarathna on Wednesday penned a lengthy opinion to disagree on all but one issue with the eight other judges on a bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday further expanded the scope of fiscal federalism by enabling states to exercise virtually complete legislative control over liquor production and trade, a ruling that will empower them to tax industrial alcohol, including denatured spirit and extra neutral alcohol (ENA), which were hitherto part of the sole domain of the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it will consider listing a plea calling for a time-bound restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, representing the applicants, urged a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, along with Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra,…
CJI DY Chandrachud (File photo) NEW DELHI:: As if responding to the oft-thrown jibe at judges – “tyranny of the unelected and unaccountable” – CJI D Y Chandrachud said judges, though neither elected nor accountable directly to the people like the political executive, are bound by the constitutional mandate to ensure equitable distribution of resources…
