NEW DELHI: For a rich man, both marriage and divorce are costly affairs. An India-born American citizen, running a successful IT consultancy service in the US, realised this as he had to cough up Rs 500 crore as alimony to his first wife in Nov 2020 and has now been ordered by SC to pay…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday put a freeze on the spate of lawsuits for reclamation of temples allegedly converted to mosques during the Mughal era and ordered trial courts across India not to entertain any fresh suit raising a ‘mosque-temple’ dispute. It also stopped adjudication of pending ones, including those relating to the Gyanvapi…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise at the fact that V Senthil Balaji was appointed a minister in Tamil Nadu right after getting bail. The court said that it would look into the issue of witnesses feeling threatened after the move.A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih,…
NEW DELHI: Rasik Chandra Mandal was born in a nondescript village of Malda district in 1920, the year Indian National Congress launched a non-cooperation movement against the British. More than a century later, he is pleading with the Supreme Court as a lifer for his freedom, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Convicted in 1994 in a 1988…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court flagged the colonial mindset among bureaucrats who habitually attempt to boss over elected representatives, especially women, in grassroots democratic institutions and said they must instead encourage women’s participation and leadership in governance.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan noted with concern that this was a recurring pattern of treatment…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that all Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)-IV measures except relating to schools will continue to be in place next hearing on December 2. The apex court also said that action against officials for ‘serious lapse’ in implementation of GRAP-IV measures needs to be expedited.Meanwhile, the Commission of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Gyanvapi mosque management committee on a plea by Hindu petitioners for an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) investigation of the sealed area inside the mosque complex, where a structure claimed to be a “Shivling” was reportedly discovered in 2022. The Muslim side, however,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed all NCR states to implement Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Level 4 even if the AQI drops below 400, and ordered all state and central governments to file compliance affidavits. The apex court also ordered all states to immediately constitute teams to monitor the implementation of actions…
NEW DELHI: Imposing a pan-India ban on instant ‘bulldozer justice’, Supreme Court on Wednesday said demolition of a citizen’s house merely because he is an accused or even a convict, that too without following the due process as prescribed by law, will be “totally unconstitutional”. It laid down a lengthy process for razing illegal structures…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has firmly stated that citizens’ properties cannot be threatened with demolition and that “bulldozer justice” is “unacceptable”.A bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud emphasised that no civilised legal system recognises justice through bulldozers, and proper legal procedures must be followed before addressing illegal constructions or encroachments.“Bulldozer justice is…
