NEW DELHI: As air quality in Delhi-NCR reaches hazardous levels, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Supreme Court Bar Association president Kapil Sibal on Monday urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to transition all courts in the region to a complete virtual mode. The request comes in response to the enforcement of Stage-IV (Severe+) measures…
NEW DELHI: Within hours of passing an order requesting the President to decide Beant Singh murder convict Balwant Singh Rajoana‘s mercy plea, Supreme Court withdrew its order after solicitor general Tushar Mehta assured that he would brief the court on the Centre’s stand on the issue.A bench of Justices B R Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra…
NEW DELHI: In a rare instance, Supreme Court on Friday recalled its Aug 2022 judgment striking down key provisions of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, finding force in Union govt’s argument that the SC had erroneously ruled on the validity of the provisions even though no party had challenged them.Solicitor general Tushar…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will soon frame guidelines on bulldozer action which will apply across the country and to all communities. It added that under these rules, there would be no restriction on govt authorities taking action against encroachers of public land, which can be done without prior notice. Even states…
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…
NEW DELHI: Faced with a huge financial burden caused by the ruling of a nine-judge bench of Supreme Court enabling states to collect royalty on extracted minerals and to levy tax on mineral-bearing land, Centre has sought a review, pointing out several “errors apparent in the judgment”.Interestingly, the Centre has roped in Madhya Pradesh as…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL by former diplomats and bureaucrats and social activists, including Jean Dreze and Harsh Mander and musician T M Krishna who sought a direction to the Centre to cancel all licences for export of arms and ammunition to Israel on the ground that the country has been indicted…
NEW DELHI: If reckless circulation of half-truths, videos of the deceased, and revealing of her identity in social and electronic media had forced the Supreme Court to order their deletion on Tuesday, two days later it found itself in the middle of a banter between senior advocate Kapil Sibal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta.Sibal on…
