SC to hear today plea seeking stay on Sambhal mosque survey
The order to constitute the committee was issued by the Home Department of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and the panel had been directed to submit its report within two months.
The order to constitute the committee was issued by the Home Department of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and the panel had been directed to submit its report within two months.
There are several troubling aspects to the Apex Court’s interventions in the R G Kar case, argues Debarshi Chakraborty.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Ashish Mishra, the prime accused in mowing down of four farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh in October 202, to respond to the allegation that witnesses were being threatened.
Pointing to the low conviction rate in the money laundering cases, a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the trial is yet to commence and, with 183 witnesses to be examined, will take a long time.
Speaking at a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association to celebrate ‘Constitution Day’, the Chief Justice lauded the role played by the Bar in making the judiciary a robust institution.
The Supreme Court collegium, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, on Wednesday recommended appointments of Telangana High Court's Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and his Kerala counterpart, Chief Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti as apex court judges.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the interim protection to activist Teesta Setalvad in connection with a case relating to alleged fabrication of evidence in 2002 Gujarat riots.
On May 11, a five-judge constitution bench had said that it cannot ordinarily decide on disqualification petitions and had directed that the “Speaker must decide disqualification petitions within a reasonable period.”
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking re-classification of the caste system, and expressed expressed concern over the filing of frivolous public interest litigations before it.
Lashing out at the Shehbaz Sharif government, former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran alleged that the administration has "made a plan" to put him in jail and the whole episode that transpired over his arrest was "pre-planned"