NEW DELHI: CJI D Y Chandrachud on Thursday took strong exception to a plea made by an advocate asking for some change in a court order which had not been signed by judges.As the lawyer pleaded for modification in the order dictated in an arbitration matter, a bench headed by the CJI asked how come…
Justice V Srishananda (Photo credit: Karnataka judiciary website) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court‘s top five judges, part of the collegium for transfer of HC judges and comprised the bench that had taken suo motu cognisance of Justice V Srishananda‘s unwarranted gratuitous remarks, had mulled transferring him outside Karnataka HC.Between September 20, when the bench of CJI…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday impressed upon constitutional court judges to be aware of their predispositions and exercise restraint to be able to remain faithful to their fundamental obligations to deliver objective and fair justice without making observations appearing to be misogynistic or hurtful towards certain communities.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda’s purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to the gender-discriminatory circular of the West Bengal health department, issued 10 days after a woman doctor’s rape-murder on Aug 9 night at the RG Kar Hospital, advising hospitals to limit women doctors‘ duty to 12 hours and avoid assigning them night duties.A bench of CJI D…
NEW DELHI: Finding merit in the “sensitive information” provided by the Union government, the Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday reconsidered its July 11 recommendation for appointment of chief justices to seven high courts and routed three of them to different HCs.The collegium led by CJI D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B…
NEW DELHI: Manipur got its first representation in Supreme Court on Thursday as CJI D Y Chandrachud administered the oath of office to 61-year-old Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh as a judge of the apex court.In Courtroom No. 1, packed with lawyers and relatives of the newly-appointed judges, the CJI also administered oath to Justice R…
CJI D Y Chandrachud, along with his father Justice Y V Chandrachud, who was CJI for the longest-ever tenure of seven-and-a-half years, are the first father-son duo to head the Indian judiciary. Chandrachud Jr has so far twice overruled his father’s judgments.CJI Chandrachud, while ruling that right to privacy was part of right to life…
