NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine whether a Muslim can opt out of being governed by Sharaiat and instead choose Indian succession law to deal with ancestral properties without renouncing their faith.a bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and justice Sanjay Khanna issued notices to Centre and the Kerala government and asked them…
A day after the Supreme Court made the unprecedented move of publically releasing a comprehensive report detailing allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, following a fire incident at his residence on March 14 that resulted in the alleged discovery of unaccounted cash, videos are surfacing online of burnt currency notes that…
SC on Thursday began scrutinising petitions seeking to criminalise a husband’s sexual acts with his non-consenting wife by challenging the validity of the exception of marital rape from the offence of rape in Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and its predecessor, IPC, on the ground that women have an inviolable right to say no to sex in…
NEW DELHI: AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Atishi celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy corruption case. The two leaders were intently focused on a laptop screen, closely following the proceedings of the Supreme Court hearing. As soon as the bail ruling was announced,…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has unilaterally approved the diversion of 1.7 acres (0.69 hectares) of Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary to the Balayogi Shree Sadanand Maharaj Ashram despite opposition from members of the State Wildlife Board, including the principal chief conservator of forests Shomita Biswas, reports Clara Lewis.A State Wildlife Board meeting called with only…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a woman is the sole owner of her ‘streedhan‘, the gold ornaments and other articles given by her parents at the time of marriage, and said that after divorce, her father has no authority to demand return of those gifts from her erstwhile in-laws.One P Veerabhadra Rao’s…
KOLKATA: RG Kar Medical College‘s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh and four colleagues of the junior doctor found raped and murdered on campus agreed Thursday to take polygraph tests, based on CBI’s request for their legal consent to use this method for verification of statements made to the agency so far.CBI wants a polygraph test on Ghosh,…
NEW DELHI: Taking exception to a nearly 14-hour delay in registering an FIR following the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital on August 9, Supreme Court on Thursday peppered West Bengal govt with questions: “Who was the principal in touch with to delay registering a complaint with police? What was…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Tuesday sought a hearing and stay in Supreme Court on Calcutta high court’s ruling which invalidated the reservation granted to these castes from April to September 2010 and 37 additional castes were included under a 2012 law.The apex court will hear the plea on August 27.(This is a…
NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending the its 2019 law which criminalised instant triple talak.According to the affidavit, the government said that the Act helps in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and helps their subserve their…
