To erase this perception of lineage trumping merit or a judicial officer getting priority over first-generation lawyers in getting recommended for appointment as high court judges, one of the collegium judges recently mooted the idea of instructing high court collegiums not to recommend lawyers or judicial officers whose parents or close relatives were/are judges of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of a controversial speech by Allahabad high court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav, in which he reportedly said the country would function as per the wishes of the “bahusankhyak (majority)” and expressed a term used to describe rigid clerics, which is considered pejorative by many. Amid protests that…
Collegium recommends elevation of Delhi HC CJ Manmohan as judge to SC (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday unanimously recommended to the Union govt to appoint Delhi HC chief justice Manmohan as an SC judge. SC, with a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, including the…
NEW DELHI: As air quality in Delhi-NCR reaches hazardous levels, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Supreme Court Bar Association president Kapil Sibal on Monday urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to transition all courts in the region to a complete virtual mode. The request comes in response to the enforcement of Stage-IV (Severe+) measures…
NEW DELHI: After passing pan-India directions to police to act suo motu against those making hate speeches and harming the social fabric, Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a petition seeking similar action to arrest the trend of seditious speeches openly encouraging anarchy and separatism.A PIL by ‘Hindu Sena Samiti’ before a bench of…
