ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari approved on Wednesday the appointment of Justice Yahya Afridi, the third most senior judge of the supreme court, as the country’s next chief justice after he was selected on Tuesday night by a 12-member parliamentary panel.The power to appoint a chief justice has shifted to parliament following a recent…
MUMBAI: Seeking maximum sentence of death against the seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the intervenor, father of one of the victims, submitted in the final arguments that the prosecution proved the case beyond reasonable doubt, reports Rebecca Samervel.“Changes in the regime led to shifts in the approach of the prosecuting agencies, but…
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…
NEW DELHI: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday said exercise of executive authority by either judiciary or legislature was not in consonance with democracy and constitutional prescriptions.He also said executive governance by the judiciary was “jurisprudentially and jurisdictionally beyond constitutional sanctification”.Dhankhar appealed to intelligentsia and academia to catalyse a national discourse to ensure deference to constitutional…
CBI casting aspersions that entire judiciary is hostile: SC NEW DELHI: CBI‘s complaint that it is having to contend with hostlity in the courts in West Bengal drew sharp reaction from Supreme Court which pulled it up for casting aspersions on the judiciary by branding all courts in the state as hostile, reports Amit Anand…
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…
KOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta HC a “mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)” for BJP while stressing that HC could have “given some other advice” in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by SSC, the court on Thursday admitted a petition against West Bengal chief minister for “making accusations against…
NEW DELHI: Four retired judges of Supreme Court and 17 ex-high court judges have written a joint letter to the Chief Justice of India bringing to his notice alleged “escalating attempts by certain factions to undermine the judiciary through calculated pressure, misinformation, and public disparagement” and sought his intervention to safeguard the judiciary.The retired judges…
NEW DELHI: At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi got involved in highlighting alleged pressure being exerted by certain sections of activist lawyers on the courts, Justice Bhushan R Gavai, one of the most senior judge of SC, on Saturday said India’s apex court is fully independent and brooks no political interference.Speaking to an…
