The Congress party has moved the Supreme Court defending the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 (POWA), stating that the law is essential to safeguard secularism and any alterations to it could jeopardize India’s communal harmony and secular fabric and threaten its sovereignty and integrity.
Posting Puja Khedkar plea for hearing on February 14, the bench in its order said, “Till next date of hearing, no coercive steps to be taken against petitioner (Khedkar).”
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh asked the Punjab chief secretary to submit Dallewal’s test reports during the course of the day to the top court’s Registrar.
Former Telangana minister and BRS working president KT Rama Rao is all set to appear before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Formula E race scam tomorrow at 10:30 am after his quash petition before the Supreme Court was withdrawn today.
The Union Home Ministry has granted permission to the ED to prosecute Kejriwal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for alleged money laundering connected to the 2021-22 liquor scam case. The policy was later scrapped by the then-AAP government led by Kejriwal.
Opposing the reference to a five-judge constitution bench, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi told the bench that the issue involved was a short one and the same can be decided by a three-judge bench.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that no one will be spared for the Manipur incident, the Congress took a swipe at him saying that he tried to divert attention from the "colossal governance failures" by equating crimes against women in other states, especially those governed by the opposition while ignoring atrocities on women in states like Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.
The court also questioned why the cheetahs are put in one place. The court suggested the Centre take some positive steps.
The Supreme Court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance of the disturbing viral videos of two young tribal women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur and sought an action taken report from the Centre and state governments by July 28.
Israel's Supreme Court is set to hear a petition to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office over a conflict of interest, the court announced.
