NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that high courts should refrain from interfering with a trial court order if there is no perversity of fact and law in the verdict. It further said that a person should not be convicted merely on the ground of suspicion no matter how strong it is.In a relief granted…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench addressing a tricky question – whether ‘industrial alcohol‘ is same as ‘intoxicating liquor’ – would have been a treat for tipplers as the lead advocate, a self-confessed whisky lover, spiritedly tried to establish states‘ exclusive jurisdiction over all sorts of alcohol-from denatured spirits to whisky, vodka, gin, rum…
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday appeared before the Supreme Court and tendered an unconditional apology for violating order related to misleading advertisements of Patanjali‘s medicinal products.The apex court criticized Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved’s managing director, Acharya Balkrishna, for their “absolute defiance” in not submitting proper compliance affidavits.The court also expressed disapproval of Balkrishna’s…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Election Commission on a PIL filed by activist Arun Kumar Agrawal seeking complete count of voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) paper slips in elections as opposed to the current practice of verification of only five randomly selected electronic voting machines (EVMs) in each assembly segment…
At the outset of the hearing on Congress’s appeal against a Delhi high court order, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih that he wanted to make a statement on behalf of I-T department. He said no further action would be taken against the opposition party…
NEW DELHI: At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi got involved in highlighting alleged pressure being exerted by certain sections of activist lawyers on the courts, Justice Bhushan R Gavai, one of the most senior judge of SC, on Saturday said India’s apex court is fully independent and brooks no political interference.Speaking to an…
NEW DELHI: Two years prior to the nationwide ‘Me Too’ movement, a Muslim woman in 2016 had lodged an FIR at a police station in Assam accusing a Hindu man of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when she was a minor and cited birth of a male child in 1983 to corroborate the rape, a…
NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern about the wide gap between the number of hit-and-run accidents in the past five years and the minuscule number of victims’ kin getting a paltry compensation of Rs 2 lakh each, the Supreme Court on Friday mandated the police to inform the kin of such accident victims about availability of…
MUMBAI: Days after the Supreme Court asked Sebi to probe if losses due to short selling in Adani stocks were in violation of any law, the markets regulator on Friday made disclosures mandatory for such trades and allowed institutional investor participation. Short selling was earlier restricted to retail and HNI investors, but without disclosure requirement.The…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC stayed Friday a trial court’s order directing police to provide a copy of the Parliament breach FIR to one of the suspects, Neelam. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma issued notice to Neelam and sought her response to Delhi police‘s plea challenging the trial court’s Thursday order. “Execution of the order stayed…
