NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday granted bail Nagpur University’s former professor Shoma Sen in Elgar Parishad case. The top court allowed bail on certain conditions including – she shall not leave Maharashtra, surrender her passport, inform NIA about her residence, inform NIA officer about her mobile number and maintain that number remains active and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has declined to modify its previous order permitting Ajit Pawar to use the NCP party name and the symbol ‘clock’ with a disclaimer, saying that the matter remains sub judice. Meanwhile, the faction led by Sharad Pawar has been designated as ‘NCP- Sharadchandra Pawar’ with the symbol of a man…
NEW DELHI: In a big relief to BJP leader Navneet Rana in the caste certificate case, the Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Bombay high court‘s order cancelling the caste certificate issued to the Amravati Lok Sabha MP.The top court said that the high court should not have interfered in the matter, adding that…
NEW DELHI: Sharad Pawar on Wednesday complained to Supreme Court that Ajit Pawar‘s NCP was not complying with the court order to give wide publicity in newspapers and pamphlets to the legal battle over party symbol ‘clock’, which it was allowed to use, and state that the matter was sub judice. Sharad Pawar sought the…
CJI D Y Chandrachud, along with his father Justice Y V Chandrachud, who was CJI for the longest-ever tenure of seven-and-a-half years, are the first father-son duo to head the Indian judiciary. Chandrachud Jr has so far twice overruled his father’s judgments.CJI Chandrachud, while ruling that right to privacy was part of right to life…
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…
