NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister and BJP‘s state election co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed the demographic issue in Jharkhand stating that “NRC (National Register of Citizens) will be done and the people whose names will not be there in NRC, we will have to push them away to Bangladesh.”“This will be our policy. Everyone will…
Justice V Srishananda (Photo credit: Karnataka judiciary website) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court‘s top five judges, part of the collegium for transfer of HC judges and comprised the bench that had taken suo motu cognisance of Justice V Srishananda‘s unwarranted gratuitous remarks, had mulled transferring him outside Karnataka HC.Between September 20, when the bench of CJI…
NEW DELHI: Observing that rigorous bail provisions in statutes like PMLA, anti-terror law UAPA and NDPS Act cannot become a ‘tool’ to keep an undertrial accused in jail for unreasonably long time, Supreme Court on Thursday held that the requirement of expeditious disposal of cases must be read into these statutes as inordinate delay in…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Gujarat government‘s plea seeking a review of its January 8 verdict in Bilkis Bano convicts’ case over certain observations made against the state. The Gujarat government in February had filed a petition requesting a review of Supreme Court’s January 8 judgment that overturned the remission granted…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case. Balaji was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last year.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih set strict conditions for Balaji’s release. The Supreme Court’s decision came after hearing…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday impressed upon constitutional court judges to be aware of their predispositions and exercise restraint to be able to remain faithful to their fundamental obligations to deliver objective and fair justice without making observations appearing to be misogynistic or hurtful towards certain communities.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday admonished Karnataka HC‘s Justice V Srishananda for his controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality as “Pakistan” and his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer, but spared him of further embarrassment by closing suo motu proceedings as he had tendered an open court apology.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud…
This is an AI-generated image of the Supreme Court. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that judges are also fallible, and courts should not shy away from accepting mistakes in their orders and rectify them even after a case has been closed.Over a year after SC passed an interim order granting protection to Indiabulls…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Punjab government‘s appeal against a high court ruling quashing its decision to expand the definition of the “NRI quota” for admissions in medical and dental courses. The apex court criticised the move, stating, “This fraud must come to an end.” Earlier on September 10, the Punjab…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda’s purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI…
