The Supreme Court on Tuesday said a country possessing spyware for security purposes is not wrong but using it against a civil society person will be looked into.
The matter came up for a hearing at a special court in Kolkata on Monday afternoon, where the counsel of the victim’s parents submitted a written synopsis of his observations on the CBI probe into the matter so far and in that written submission, this particular allegation was made.
Following a plea over obscene content on OTT and social media, SC notes that these platforms have a social responsibility and issues a notice to the Centre.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted an interim bail till May 8 to Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term in 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to attend to his ailing mother who is said to be in a serious condition.
Posting the matter for final hearing on May 6 and 7, a bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Rajesh Bindal told the advocates appearing for the Gujarat government and the convicts to file a compilation of their submissions in the case.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice Manoj Misra, and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma declined to initiate contempt proceedings against the poll panel while taking into note the ECI’s statement that it was addressing the issue.
Opposing Swamy’s plea, Member of Rajya Sabha and the Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Binoy Viswam in his impleadment application has told the top court that both 'secularism and socialism' are inherent to the basic features of the Constitution.
In a major setback to party founder Sharad Pawar, the poll panel had ruled that the Ajit Pawar faction was the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and allotted the party symbol ‘clock’ to it.
The victim girl's grandmother had on May 21, 2018, lodged an FIR against the man, who was 40 years old at the time of the committing the crime of kidnapping and raping the minor girl. The convict took the victim to a temple and raped her.
Earlier on December 13, 2023, the Supreme Court had rejected the review petition of Manish Sisodia against a top court order October 30, 2023, order refusing him bail in the excise policy scam case.
