Lawyer Moves Supreme Court Challenging Delhi HC's Decision To Confer Senior Designation On 70 Advocates

A Writ petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the Senior Designation of 70 advocates by the Delhi High Court. The plea, filed by Advocate Sanjay Dubey seeks the quashing of the notification dated November 29, 2024, by which 70 Advocates were notified to be designated as Senior Advocates and 67 Advocates were placed in a 'deferred list' upon the recommendations of...

BREAKING| RG Kar Rape-Murder Case : Life Imprisonment For Convict Sanjoy Roy [Live Updates ]

A sessions court in Kolkata is about to sentence Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case. The court had stated that the minimum sentence would be life imprisonment while maximum sentence would be the death penalty.Follow this page for live...

Shocked To See Many Non-Meat Products Having Halal Certification : Solicitor General Tells Supreme Court

During the hearing of the pleas challenging Uttar Pradesh government's ban on halal-certified products, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged before the Supreme Court today that halal-certified products are costlier and the Court may have to consider the issue of people all across the country having to buy costlier halal-certified products just because they are demanded by a few.A bench...

Police Arresting Accused After Filing Chargesheet & Court's Cognizance Makes No Sense : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has deprecated the practice of police arresting an accused, who was not arrested during investigation after the Court has taken cognizance of the chargesheet.When the Court was informed that such a practice was being followed by the Uttar Pradesh police, it expressed surprise, terming the practice "unusual" . The Court said that such a practice does not make any sense.A...

Supreme Court Asks J&K&L HC To Install Proper VC Facilities In Jammu Court Holding Trial Against Yasin Malik

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 20) asked the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir & Ladakh to take immediate steps to install proper video-conferencing facilities in the Court in Jammu, which is holding the trial against Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik and other accused in the case related to the assassination of four Indian Air Force officials in 1989. A bench comprising Justice Abhay...

Breaking | Kerala Court Awards Death Penalty To Greeshma For Murder Of Beau Sharon Raj

A Court in Kerala's Trivandrum has handed down death sentence to Greeshma, convicted last week for poisoning her beau Sharon Raj, to weasel out of their romantic relationship.The order was pronounced by Neyyattinkara Additional Sessions Court.Greeshma has also been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for offence of kidnapping/ abducting to murder (S. 364 IPC) and 5 years of imprisonment...

Lakhimpur Kheri Case : Supreme Court Asks UP Police To Enquire If Ashish Mishra Attempted To Influence Witnesses

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 20) asked the Superintendent of Police, Lakhimpur (Uttar Pradesh) to conduct a fact-finding enquiry into the allegations that Ashish Mishra attempted to influence the witnesses in the Lakhimpur-Kheri killings case.A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh passed the direction while hearing an application filed by the family members of...

'Either You Decide Or We'll Hear' : Supreme Court Gives Last Chance To Union On Balwant Singh's Mercy Plea, Posts On March 18

The Supreme Court today (January 20) stated that either the Union Government will take a decision or the Court will decide on the merits of the mercy petition filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana, Babbar Khalsa terrorist, seeking commutation of the death sentence awarded to him in the Punjab CM Beant Singh assassination case. He is seeking commutation on the grounds of delay in considering the...

Supreme Court Stays Proceedings Against Rahul Gandhi In Criminal Defamation Case Over Remarks Against BJP & Amit Shah

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 20) stayed the trial court proceedings in the criminal defamation case filed against Congress MP and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi for allegedly saying that Bharatiya Janata Party members were "liars" and "drunk with power" and for calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a "murder-accused".A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed...

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Telangana HC Decision Which Struck Down Local Quota Criteria For PG Medical Admissions

The Supreme Court recently refused to stay a Telangana High Court judgment which struck down amended criteria for determining 'local' status of candidates in post-graduate medical admissions.For context, the provisions struck down by the High Court(on December 17, 2024) included explanation clause (b) to Rule 8(ii) of the Telangana Medical Colleges (Admission into Post Graduate Medical...

Kerala Court Issues Bailable Warrant Against Patanjali Ayurved's Baba Ramdev And Managing Director In Misleading Advertisements Case

A Kerala Court has issued bailable warrant against Divya Pharmacy and its co-founder Baba Ramdev and its Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna in a case of publishing misleading advertisements in English and Malayalam newspapers.The bailable warrant is issued on Janauary 16 by Judicial First Class Magistrate Court II, Palakkad. The next date is February 1, 2025.Divya Pharmacy is an...

CJ Ramesh Sinha Inaugurates Workshop To Enhance Technical Skills Of Chhattisgarh HC Staff, Assistant Programmers From 23 State Districts

In a landmark step towards empowering the judiciary of Chhattisgarh with cutting-edge technology, the Chhattisgarh High Court on Sunday organized a workshop titled “A deep dive into the controls within New CIS Version 4.0 and Equipping the Technical Staff with Laptops” at the Chhattisgarh State Judicial Academy, Bilaspur for Technical Staff of the High Court and Assistant Programmers from...