Supreme Court Defers Judgment On Justice Eswaraiah's Plea To Set Aside AP High Court Order For Enquiry Into Alleged Phone Call 'Conspiracy' Against SC Judge

The Supreme Court on Friday deferred pronouncement of the judgement in the plea filed by former Andhra Pradesh High Court Judge, Justice V. Eswaraiah, against an order of the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordering a judicial inquiry into an alleged phone conversation between him and a District Judge plotting 'conspiracy' against the Chief Justice of the High Court and a sitting Supreme Court...

Supreme Court Allows UP's Plea To Transfer Mukhtar Ansari From Punjab Jail

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the writ petition filed by the State of Uttar Pradesh seeking transfer of BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar Jail in Punjab to Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur Jail.The Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan directed that Ansari would be handed over to the custody of State of Uttar Pradesh within two weeks."It is directed that Mukhtar Ansari is handed over to the...

Former Supreme Court Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar Passed away

Former Judge of Supreme Court judge Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar passed away. He was aged 71 years.He served as a judge of the Supreme Court from 17 November 2009 – 6 June 2014He had also served as the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court and a judge at the High Courts of Punjab & Haryana and...

Maratha Quota Case : Supreme Court Constitution Bench Reserves Judgment After 10 Days Of Hearing

After a marathon hearing over a period of 10 days, the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday reserved the judgement in a batch of pleas challenging the Maharashtra SEBC Act, 2018, which provides for reservation for Marathas in jobs and education. The 5-Judge Bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, L. Nageswara Rao, S. Abdul Nazeer, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat heard...

"Hands Of Investigators Cannot Be Tied": Delhi Court Rejects Plea By Mehmood Pracha Against His Office Raids

A Delhi Court on Friday disposed off Advocate Mehmood Pracha's application challenging Delhi Police Special Cell's second raid after observing that the objections raised by him are baseless.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma ordered thus:"The plea of the applicant about his offer of target data in Pen drive can only be considered by the IO subject to the issue of admissibility...

Bhima Koregaon Case: Supreme Court Reserves Order On Gautam Navlakha's Plea For Default Bail

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by senior journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha, against an order of the Bombay High Court denying him default bail in the Bhima Koregaon case. The Bench comprising of Justice UU Lalit and Justice KM Joseph said that it will release the order after 7th April, as Justice Joseph is not available until then. During...

Supreme Court Reserves Orders On Plea Against Deportation of Rohingya Refugees In Jammu

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved for orders a plea seeking directions for release of the Rohingya refugees who have been detained in Jammu and to restrain the government from deporting them to Myanmar.A bench comprising CJI SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramaniam was hearing an interim application filed by a PIL petitioner Mohammad Salimullah seeking protection of Rohinya...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Stay Feature Film 'Haathi Mere Saathi' Release

Days before the release of Hindi Feature Film 'Haathi Mere Saathi' (alternately titled 'Kaadan' in Tamil and 'Aranya' in Telugu), the Delhi High Court heard an urgent petition filed by 'Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd' seeking a stay on its release. The multinational pharmaceutical company (through ) sought stay on release via any media platform such as cinemas, OTT, etc., alleging that...

Breaking: Supreme Court Dismisses Plea By Sushant Singh Rajput's Sister To Quash FIR Against Her Based On Rhea Chakraborty's Complaint

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Priyanka Singh challenging the Bombay High Court's refusal to quash FIR filed against her by Mumbai Police on actor Rhea Chakraborty's complaint. "We are not inclined to entertain the petition", a bench headed by CJI Bobde told Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, who was appearing for Priyanka. The Bombay High Court...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Subramanian Swamy's Plea Challenging Provisions Of Places of Worship Act

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a PIL filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the Constitutional validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991.A Bench comprising of CJI SA Bobde and Justice AS Bopanna issued notice and tagged the matter with Ashwini Upadhyay's plea seeking similar relief."That the Act of 1991is unconstitutional is also void ab initio...

Supreme Court Allows Tata Sons Appeal Against NCLAT Order To Reinstate Cyrus Mistry As Chairman

In a big win for Tata Sons Ltd, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed its appeal against the order of the National Company Law Tribunal, which had ordered to reinstate the ousted Chairman Cyrus Mistry.The Court allowed the appeal of Tata Sons, answering all questions of law framed in the case in its favour, and set aside the NCLAT order. The appeals filed by Shapoorji Pallonji group and...

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Electoral Bonds, Says Sufficient Safeguards Already There

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the release of the fresh set of electoral bonds from April 1 for the assembly polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry.The Court dismissed the application filed by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms seeking stay of the bonds.Since the bonds were allowed to be released in 2018, 2019 and 2020 without interruption,...