NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Enforcement Directorate to file its response on former Jharkhand CM and JMM chairperson Hemant Soren’s interim bail plea in money laundering case.Listing the matter for the second week of May, the apex court also said that the Jharkhand high court may pronounce its order in Soren’s plea…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday dismissed doubts about hacking and manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), termed pleas for return to the paper ballot system as “foible and unsound” and rejected the prayer for giving voters physical access to VVPAT slips, and for 100% counting of paper slips.The court was unequivocal in attesting to…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the election commission (EC) on a PIL seeking to publicise None of the Above (NOTA), a fictional candidate. The PIL also seeks to disallow candidates who get less than NOTA to contest the bye-elections to the same constituency.A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI)…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Thursday acknowledged ‘solid financial backing’ from the government to modernize judicial infrastructure with information technology and said litigants and lawyers across the country can now access the highest court of the land with a click of a button.Announcing another step forward in SC’s rapid advancement in infusing…
NEW DELHI: Reinforcing married women’s right over ‘streedhan’, Supreme Court on Wednesday held that streedhan cannot become joint property of a couple, and a husband has no control over his wife’s assets, which he may use during times of distress but must return to her. Adjudicating a matrimonial dispute over streedhan, a bench of Justices…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Friday on petitions seeking 100% matching of votes cast on EVMs with VVPATs. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta is to pass the order. The SC website says there will be two separate judgments penned by the two judges.The petitioners have backed their…
NEW DELHI: With the political slugfest over redistribution of wealth escalating, Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will not adhere to Justice V R Krishna Iyer’s 1977 Marxian interpretation of Article 39(b) of the Constitution that a community’s “material resources” would include private properties for reallocation to subserve the common good.Engaged in interpreting the ambit…
KOLKATA: Arguing that the Calcutta high court order scrapping all 2016 teaching and non-teaching staff appointments would “paralyse” schools in Bengal, leading to a “complete collapse of the education system”, state govt filed a special leave petition (SLP) in Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging it. The state also urged an interim stay of the high…
Supreme Court on Wednesday witnessed an engrossing debate over the existing architecture of Article 31C, added to the Constitution in 1971 to shield legislations furthering objectives of Article 39(b) & 39(c) in Directive Principles of State Policy from court scrutiny for alleged violation of fundamental rights under Articles 14 (equality) and 19 (freedoms). Source link
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its unwillingness to pass any order regarding electronic voting machines (EVMs) only on the basis of suspected hacking and manipulation, while stating that it would not flinch from ensuring steps for improvement if it saw the need for any.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said…
