The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Wednesday a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act 2023, that excludes the Chief Justice of India from a panel for the selection of the Chief Election (CEC) Commissioner and the Election Commissioners (ECs).
The bench said that the interim protection from arrest is subject to the condition that he joins the investigation and also granted him liberty to approach the police for protection against threats.
The Supreme Court, on Monday, adjourned for April the hearing on a batch of cross -petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 and others defending and seeking proper and effective enforcement of the 1991 law that prohibits the filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that it will hear in April petitions including by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), seeking directions to bring all recognized national political parties within the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The Supreme Court on Friday extended its interim protection from arrest to former IAS trainee officer Puja Khedkar accused of forging her documents to obtain eligibility for the 2022 Union Public Service Commission test under the reservation for other backward classes (OBC) and persons with benchmark disabilities.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Election Commission to ensure that CCTV video recordings of polling booths are maintained and preserved till the adjudication of a PIL challenging the poll panel’s August 7 and 23, 2024 communications to increase the number of voters per polling booth from earlier 1,200 to 1,500.
In an important ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that domicile-based reservations in postgraduate medical courses (PG) are impermissible, and declared them unconstitutional for being violative of Article 14 of the Constitution – guaranteeing equality before law.
The Kerala-based non-believing Muslim woman sought a declaration that in the matters of inheritance, a person who does not want to be governed by the Muslim Personal Law (Sharia Law) must be allowed to be governed by the country’s secular law.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted custody parole to AIMIM candidate Tahir Hussain, an accused in the February 2020 North East Delhi riots, to campaign in for the Delhi Assembly polls for six days, from January 29 to February 3.
The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Jaishree Thakur, as an independent observer to oversee the voting for Chandigarh mayoral elections scheduled for January 30.
