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NEET UG 2025: Supreme Court Dismisses Pleas Seeking Reexamination For Candidates Who Faced Power Outage At Centres
The Supreme Court today(July 25) dismissed two petitions filed by NEET-UG 2025 candidates, who suffered a power outage in centres in Madhya Pradesh, seeking a re-examination. The Court refused to interfere with the Madhya Pradesh High Court Division Bench's judgment which refused the plea for re-test. The Court opined that the High Court has examined the issue from all possible aspects,...
'Udaipur Files' Row : Supreme Court Asks Delhi HC To Decide On Monday Pleas To Stay Movie's Release
The Supreme Court on Friday (July 25) asked the parties objecting to the release of the controversial movie "Udaipur Files : Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder" to approach the Delhi High Court to challenge the Centre's revisional order which approved the movie's exhibition with 6 edits.The Court requested the High Court to take up the matter on coming Monday (July 28) itself for a...
Supreme Court Allows Kerala Govt To Withdraw Petitions Challenging Governor's Inaction On Bills; Rejects Centre's Objection
The Supreme Court today(July 25) allowed the State of Kerala to withdraw the two petitions filed by it n 2023 against the Kerala Governor over the delay in granting assent to the bills passed by the legislative assembly.A bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar passed the order rejecting the objections raised by the Centre to the State's bid to withdraw the...
'Very Bad' : Supreme Court On Exclusion Of Blind Persons From Uttarakhand Judicial Service Exam; Seeks PSC's Response
The Supreme Court today(July 25) issued notice to the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission on a writ petition filed by a blind candidate seeking to appear for the Uttarakhand Judicial Service Exams. She has challenged the exclusion of persons with blindness and locomotor disability, and also persons who are not domiciled in Uttarakhand, from being eligible for the Persons with...
Sr Advocate Raju Ramachandran Joins NALSAR As Distinguished Professor
National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad has onboarded Sr Advocate Raju Ramachandran as it's Distinguished Professor. NALSAR posted about this development on its official 'X' Handle on July 23. Ramachandran is Sr Advocate at the Supreme Court and a former Additional Solicitor General of India. ...
Govt Has No Current Plan To Remove 'Socialist' & 'Secular' From Constitution's Preamble : Union Law Minister
Clarifying the Union Government's official stance, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has said that there are no plans at present to remove the words "socialist" and "secular" from the Preamble to the Indian Constitution. Yesterday, in response to the Samajwadi Party MP Ramji Lal Suman query on "official bearers of some social organisations" attempting to create an atmosphere for the removal...
Srinagar Court Orders Husband To Pay Monthly Subsistence To Wife For Illegally Pronouncing 'Triple Talaq'
A Srinagar court has ordered a man to pay a monthly subsistence of ₹7,000 to his wife and their dependent child after finding that the woman was a victim of instantaneous triple talaq (Talaq-e-Biddat), which is outlawed under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019. The order was passed by Zirgham Hamid, 1st Additional Munsiff/Judicial Magistrate 1st...
Three Plead Guilty In 2020 Bengaluru Riots Case, NIA Court Sentences Them To 7 Yrs Imprisonment
A special NIA Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced three accused involved in the 2020 Bengaluru Riots Case, to seven years rigorous imprisonment on them pleading guilty for the offences charged with. The convicted accused are Syed Ikramuddin alias Syed Naveed (44), Syed Asif (46), and Mohammed Atif (26) who were charged under sections Sections 15, 16, 18 and 20 of...
Plea In Supreme Court To Apply POSH Act To Political Parties
A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to apply the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 ("POSH Act") on political parties. Consequently, the writ petition also seeks the constitution of a grievance redressal mechanism as per the directions of the Supreme Court's judgment in its 2013 Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan.The...
Supreme Court Issues Notice To Assam Chief Secretary In Contempt Petition Over Demolitions In Goalpara District
The Supreme Court today (July 24) agreed to hear a contempt petition against the Chief Secretary of Assam Government and Goalpara district authorities for alleged illegal eviction and demolition of structures in violation of the Court's guidelines in In Re: Directions in the matter of Demolition of StructuresThe bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran issued notice in the...
Udaipur Files Movie : Supreme Court To Decide Tomorrow On Extending Stay Of Release
In the matter pertaining to the controversial movie "Udaipur Files : Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder", the Supreme Court on Thursday (July 24) expressed that it would ask the parties objecting to the film to approach the Delhi High Court challenging the Centre's order which approved the movie's release with 6 edits.On whether the release of the film should be stayed till the parties approach the...
