NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court sought clarification from the Election Commission regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and summoned a senior poll panel official for a hearing at 2 pm on Wednesday. Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, presiding over a case on verifying votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), said…
NEW DELHI: overnment has moved Supreme Court seeking clarification on assigning spectrum for specific purposes — such as satellite communication, for use by defence forces and PSUs, and for Metro or railway operations — instead of auctions, mandated by the apex court in 2012 following the 2G scam.The petition, which was filed last Dec, came…
CUTTACK: The Supreme Court Tuesday suspended the sentence of Barabati-Cuttack MLA Mohammed Moquim in the Orissa Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC) loan fraud case, but did not stay his conviction, dashing his hopes of contesting the assembly elections next month.The Representation of the People Act mandates the disqualification of MLAs sentenced to a jail term…
NEW DELHI: Hearing case on misleading advertisements by Patanjali Ayurved, the Supreme Court of India on Tuesday said that the Ramdev-owned company’s public apology in newspapers should be of same size in which it advertises its products.Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Ramdev, said that an apology has been published in newspapers. But the Supreme Court reprimanded…
NEW DELHI: Using its omnibus powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed termination of a 14-year-old girl’s 30-week-old pregnancy, allegedly caused by sexual assault, following a medical board’s opinion that though MTP at this stage is risky, threat to the minor’s life is more if pregnancy continued to its…
CHANDIGARH: Injuries suffered due to slipping in the bathroom of army barracks do not qualify a soldier for disability pension, Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has ruled, underscoring that wounds or death must be directly linked to armed forces services rather than being accidental occurrences common to people. An AFT division bench, comprising Justice (retd) Anil…
NEW DELHI: Success in business may be most Gujarati’s alter ego but the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee of Surat took it to the next level by constructing a mall and a five-star hotel on its land, which was acquired by Gujarat govt in the 1960s for the benefit of farmers.A Supreme Court bench of Chief…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that Article 48A of the Constitution, envisaging protection of environment and safeguarding of forests and wildlife, has a direct nexus with citizens’ right to life and asked govts to protect forests to save the country and the world from ill-effects of climate change.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh…
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was instrumental in reversing Election Commission’s 2012 reluctance into acceptance of the importance of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail in electronic voting machines (EVMs), first deployed in Nagaland’s Noksen Assembly bye-elections on Sep 4, 2013 without detecting any discrepancy between votes cast and VVPAT slips.In its October 2013 judgment, a…
