The Supreme Court was hearing the PIL challenging the poll panel’s communications whereby the maximum number of electors per polling station had been increased from 1200 to 1500.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna assumed office as the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday, following Justice DY Chandrachud’s tenure. The oath of office was administered by President Droupadi Murmu in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Dismissing the plea, a bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice Sandeep Mehta said they were not convinced to interfere with the High Court order which had also refused to stay the trial.
Setting aside the Madras High court order cancelling the bail, earlier granted to 'Sattai' Durai Murugan on November 2021, a bench observed that he could not be said to have misused the liberty granted to him.
The observation from the bench came as Stalin, seeking the clubbing of the multiple FIRs registered against him across the country, relied on the top court judgments in the matters relating to media persons in support of his plea
The largest Bench of the Court sat for the longest time six months and delivered arguably the most celebrated judgment in the legislative history of independent India. It conceded to Parliament but only partly the power to suitably amend the Constitution to carry forward its intent but held it could not tinker with or alter the ‘basic structure‘ of the same. Most crucially, it could not curtail the independent power of the Judiciary to review any legislation to ensure that it conforms to the ‘basic structure
The Supreme Court has asked police officers in Maharashtra to compensate a woman for keeping her in illegal detention despite she being granted interim protection and two weeks to surrender by it.
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the membership of a banned organisation is bound to be held as an activity against the integrity and sovereignty of the country.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that anybody who conducts the two-finger test on rape survivors would be guilty of misconduct, and declared the invasive procedure as 'patriarchal and unscientific', which also re-victimises and re-traumatises the women.
Upadhyay has also filed a petition before the Supreme Court last year, challenging the constitutional validity of the Places of Worship Act.
