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Supreme Court To Consider Whether Temporary Disability Certificate Bars Persons With Disabilities From PWD Reservation
The Supreme Court recently directed the Respondents to keep two seats vacant under the visual disability quota for the first year MBBS course in a plea filed by two students with visual disabilities. The two students, with 40% visual disability in eyes, were disallowed admission in medical colleges in Jammu & Kashmir despite qualifying NEET-UG on grounds that their disabilities...
NIA Court Says Pragya Thakur Had Taken Sanyas, No Evidence Of Conscious Possession Of Explosive-Laden Bike; But Rejects Her Torture Claim
While acquitting the seven accused from the 2008 Malegaon Blast Case, particularly former parliamentarian and BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur, the special NIA court held that the prosecution failed to prove that she was in 'conscious' ownership of the explosive-laden LML Freedom motorcycle just before the blast. Special Judge AK Lahoti even refused to accept the theories of the...
Supreme Court Asks Justice UU Lalit-led Committee To Independently Select VCs for 15 West Bengal Aided Universities
The Supreme Court on Friday modified its previous directions regarding the appointment of Vice Chancellors in West Bengal and entrusted former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit and the Selection committee headed by him with the responsibility of independently determining the most suitable candidates for appointment to 15 universities. “Justice Lalit and members of his selection committee are...
Supreme Court Directs Power Ministry, Regulators To Draw Up Joint Action Plan For Reduction Of Power Sector Emissions
The Supreme Court recently (July 22) directed the Ministry of Power to convene a joint meeting with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to prepare a coordinated action plan to reduce carbon emissions from the power generation sector. The Court ordered the three bodies to file a joint affidavit within four weeks detailing the...
'Sentence Not Contemplated In Law': Delhi Court Sets Aside Magistrate's 'Hands In Air' Punishment For Accused
A Delhi Court on Friday set aside a Judicial Magistrate's order directing accused persons to stand in court with their hands straight in the air as a punishment for wasting judicial time and failing to furnish their bail bonds in time. Noting that such a sentence is not contemplated in law, the Court also advised the Judicial Officer concerned to properly read and understand the legal...
Supreme Court Stays MP HC Order Restraining Institutes Recognised In 2025 From Conducting Paramedical Course For 2023-24 & 2024-25 Sessions
The Supreme Court on Friday (August 1) stayed the interim order passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court which restrained institutes offering paramedical courses, which were granted recognition by the State Paramedical Council in 2025, to conduct academic sessions for the years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran passed...
Bombay High Court Gets Fifth Bench At Kolhapur, To Commence Sittings From August 18
In a major development, the Bombay High Court will finally get Bench for the Western Maharashtra at Kolhapur district, which will be the fifth bench of the High Court, from August 18.A notification to this effect, was issued by Chief Justice Alok Aradhe on Friday (August 1)."In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 51 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (No. 37...
Supreme Court Issues Notice To States, ED & TRAI On Plea To Ban Betting Apps And Celebrity Endorsements
The Supreme Court today issued notice to all States in a petition filed by evangelist Dr. KA Paul seeking a ban on online and offline betting applications and on celebrity endorsements promoting them. The Court also issued notice to Directorate of Enforcement, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Google India and Apple India that carry such apps on their app stores, as well as major...
'Even Judges Make Mistakes, Shouldn't Shy Away From Accepting Them': Kashmir Court Expunges Critical Remarks Made Against Wrong Magistrate
The Principal Sessions Judge, Anantnag, has expunged certain remarks made against a Judicial Magistrate in a previously passed order, acknowledging that the comments were based on a factual error and were directed at the wrong officer.The remarks, originally made while deciding a revision petition, questioned how a Magistrate of the 2024 batch, despite receiving full training at the...
NEET-UG 2025 : Supreme Court Asks Petitioner Challenging 3 Questions To Approach High Court
The Supreme Court today(August 1) dismissed as withdrawn a writ petition, seeking to challenge three questions of physics in the NEET UG examination 2025.The petition is filed by a NEET UG candidate who had appeared for the examination and found questions 25, 34 and 39 to have been wrongly framed as none of the options provided in the answer were correct. Her grievance is that because of...
MBBS Internship: 'You Make Them Work For 18-19 Hours & Pay No Stipend?' : Supreme Court Asks Army College To Clear Arrears Of 2022 Batch
The Supreme Court today(August 1) directed the Army Medical College Sciences to pay stipend arrears, calculated at Rs.25,000 per month, to the MBBS interns of 2022.There was an order passed in September 2023 to pay a monthly stipend of Rs. 25,000 to medical students from the batches from October 2023. At the outset, a bench comprising Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Aravind Kumar questioned...