AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider Asaduddin Owaisi‘s plea, along with similar petitions, seeking implementation of the 1991 places of worship law. The matter will be taken up for hearing on February 17.Owaisi’s plea sought implementation of the 1991 law, which asks to maintain the…
NEW DELHI: Top lawyer and Congress functionary Abhishek Manu Singhvi has backed the proposal, under consideration of SC collegium, to pause for some time appointment of high court judges from among lawyers or judicial officers whose parents or close relatives were/are judges of SC or HCs to give first-generation lawyers a chance to become constitutional…
NEW DELHI: This year, the Supreme Court delivered several landmark judgments, shaping the legal landscape and setting critical precedents for the future. From bail exceptions for election campaigns to rulings on contentious laws, the top court addressed a wide array of issues.In a rare move, the top court granted the former Delhi chief minister interim…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court appointed high-powered committee headed by former judge of Punjab and Haryana HC Nawab Singh will hold further talks with the agitating farmers on Jan 3 and an invitation has been sent to them for a virtual meeting.The court had in Sept constituted the independent and neutral panel to hold talks with…
US President-elect Donald Trump submitted a brief on Friday requesting the Supreme Court to delay a law that would ban TikTok if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it before his January 20 inauguration.“In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant…
NEW DELHI: Ending a 20-year-ego battle between a judicial officer and an IPS officer, Supreme Court Friday quashed summons and bailable warrants issued by a trial judge to then Kurukshetra SP Bharti Arora to show cause why ‘her role in letting off an accused in a narcotic drug case be not investigated’.A bench of Justices…
(From left) Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackery, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat / PTI photo NEW DELHI: The opposition INDIA bloc in Maharashtra will move the Supreme Court over the alleged manipulation of EVMs in the recent assembly elections. The decision to approach the Supreme…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday granted permanent commission to a woman Army officer, pointing out that the authorities had wrongly excluded her from the consideration extended to similarly placed officers.A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan, delivering the verdict, highlighted the principle of fairness, stating that all soldiers, irrespective of litigation…
EX-SC judge RF Nariman (File photo from SC website) NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge and noted jurist Justice R F Nariman has expressed disappointment over the top court’s verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case and said it did not do justice to the principle of secularism. He also said the Places of Worship…
NEW DELHI: Deploring Enforcement Directorate‘s high-handedness for interrogating ex-IAS officer Anil Tuteja for the whole night and showing his arrest at 4am in the Chhattisgarh liquor scam, Supreme Court Friday termed conduct of the investigators “terrible”.Though a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said improper conduct of agency officials would not…
