Argument By Police That CCTV In The Police Station Was Not Working Can't Be Accepted: Bombay High Court

CCTV system controls activities like atrocities against persons who are brought to police station: Bombay High Court

Supreme Court Stays Contempt Proceedings Against Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari Over Alleged Non-Payment Of Rent Of Govt. Bungalow

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the contempt proceedings which was sought to be initiated against Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari by the Uttarakhand High Court which had issued notice on the same. The contempt proceedings stem from the alleged failure of the Governor to follow an order of payment of market rent for a government bungalow which was allocated to him in...

Supreme Court on Loan Moratorium And Waiver of Interest: Live-Updates of Supreme Court

In the loan moratorium case Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi has commenced his arguments before a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ashok...

Terrorist Activities In The State Orchestrated By ISI; Providing It Vital Info/Pictures Is Waging War Against The Country: Jammu and Kashmir High Court

Its an open secret that J&K is facing onslaught of terrorist activities orchestrated by ISI of Pakistan: J&K High Court

Supreme Court Upholds Land Acquisition Notifications For Chennai-Salem 8 Lane Expressway

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the notifications issued for acquiring land for the Chennai-Salem eight-lane greenfield expressway project.Partly allowing the appeals of the Union of India and the National Highways Authority of India, the top court reversed the Madras High Court judgment to the extent it quashed the land acquisition notifications.The Court said that it has negatived...

Supreme Court Directs Medical College In Telangana To Pay 10 Lakh Compensation To PG Medical Course Aspirant For Illegally Denying Admission

The Supreme Court has directed a medical college in Telangana to pay Rupees Ten Lakh as compensation to a PG Medical Course aspirant for illegally denying admission in the college.The bench comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta also observed that one seat in MS (General Surgery) course from the Management Quota of Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences and Research Centre for...

Reservations Have Acted As a Form of Social Engineering to Address Centuries of Oppression and Discrimination: Justice Ravindra Bhat

"Reservations have acted as a form of social engineering to address centuries of oppression, extreme inequities in the distribution of educational opportunity"

Bombay High Court Dismisses Plea Against Construction Of Lokhandwala-Andheri Link Roads With Rs.2 Lakh Cost

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by a group of residents from Versova questioning the construction of Lokhandwala Andheri link roads citing uprooting of mangroves as a cause for concern, observing that the petitioners appear to have private interest in the matter.Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni were hearing a...

Public Examinations: Supreme Court Deprecates Practice Of Re-evaluation And Scrutiny Of Answer Sheets By Courts

"Courts should be very slow in interfering with expert opinion in academic matters"

Persons Of Influence Have To Be More Responsible In Speech : Supreme Court In Amish Devgan's Case

In the judgment refusing to quash the FIR against News 18 anchor Amish Devgan, the Supreme Court observed that persons of influence have to be more responsible in speech."Persons of influence, keeping in view their reach, impact and authority they yield on general public or the specific class to which they belong, owe a duty and have to be more responsible", said the judgment delivered by a...

Gautam Navlakha's Spectacles Stolen; Taloja Jail Refuses Specs Sent By Family, Says Partner

One of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha's partner Sahba Hussain has released a statement today alleging that his spectacles were stolen and despite him being nearly blind without them, Taloja jail authorities refused to allow Navlakha to speak to his family for three days after that.Moreover, the family sent him a new pair but the jail...

Rape Trial: Supreme Court Issues Notice On Bail Application Upon Accused's Plea That Victim Aged 17 Yrs 8 Months Had Consented To Act

Noting the submission that allegedly the victim had consented to the act, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a bail plea of a man accused of rape of a girl, who was a minor aged 17 years 8 months at the time of the offence.The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi was hearing a SLP against a September order of the Bombay High Court denying bail to...