Sabarimala | Visit Of Fertile Women Antithetical To Deity's Identity; They Can Visit Other Ayyappa Temples : TDB To Supreme Court

During the Sabarimala Reference hearing, the Travancore Devaswom Board told the Supreme Court that excluding the category of menstruating women aged 10- 50 years from visiting the Sabarimala Temple was within the reasonable classification test. Senior Advocate AM Singhvi, made submissions for the Board before the 9-judge bench comprising CJI Surya Kant and Justice BV Nagarathna, Justice...

Wouldn't Have Attended Adhivakta Parishad's Program As A Sitting Judge As It's Politically Inclined : Justice AS Oka

Speaking during an event organised by Adhivakta Parishad, former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S Oka today expressed that as a sitting judge, he would not have accepted invite to an event hosted by a politically-inclined organization."If as a sitting judge, I was invited by Adhivakta Parishad to speak on its platform, I would have politely said no, because my belief was Adhivakta...

Difficult To Declare Belief Of Millions Wrong : Supreme Court In Sabarimala Reference Hearing

'Can a Court declare a religious faith wrong without hearing the millions of followers?' asked the bench during the heraing.

Sabarimala Reference | Can't Hollow Out Religion In The Name Of Social Reform, Supreme Court Says In Hearing

During the hearing of the Sabarimala reference, the Supreme Court on Wednesday orally commented that in the name of social welfare and reform, one can't hollow out a religion.Justice BV Nagarathna, part of the 9-judge bench hearing the matter, made this observation while hearing the arguments of Senior Advocate Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi regarding Article 25(2)(b) and its interplay with the...

'Go To HC': Supreme Court Rejects Savukku Shankar's Nephew's Plea Against 3rd Preventive Detention Order Under Goondas Act

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a writ petition filed by YouTuber and journalist Savukku Shankar's nephew seeking quashing of a third detention order passed against Shankar under the Tamil Nadu Goondas Act.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma heard the matter and asked the petitioner to approach the High Court. It also said that upon being so approached,...

Sabarimala Reference | Travancore Devaswom Board Disagrees With Nair Service Society's Argument On Articles 25(2)(b) & 26(b)

In the Sabarimala Reference hearing before the 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court, the Travancore Devaswom Board disagreed with the argument advanced by the Nair Service Society and certain temple organisations from Kerala that Article 26(b) of the Constitution was subject to 25(2)(b) of the Constitution.Article 25(2)(b) allows the State to enact law for social welfare and reform or the...

First-Year Law Student Found Dead At NUJS Kolkata Campus

A first-year student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, was found unresponsive on campus and was subsequently declared dead, according to a statement issued by the student body.The deceased, identified as Juven Joss Jebin, was “found unresponsive behind the Boys' Hostel on the Main Campus” and was “subsequently pronounced deceased by the...

'We're Surprised' : Supreme Court Stays Telangana High Court's Transit Anticipatory Bail To Pawan Khera In Assam FIR

The Supreme Court today stayed the order passed by the Telangana High Court granting transit anticipatory bail to Congress leader Pawan Khera in connection with an FIR registered by the Assam Police on Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, over Khera's allegations that she held multiple passports of different countries.A bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Atul...

Sabarimala Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench [Day 4]

Today is the fourth day of arguments before the 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court in the Sabarimala reference.Apart from CJI Surya Kant, the Bench comprises Justice BV Nagarathna, Justice MM Sundresh, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Justice Aravind Kumar, Justice Augustine George Masih, Justice Prasanna B Varale, Justice R Mahadevan and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.Reports from Day 1 Hearing are...

'Deepfakes Disproportionately Target Women, Takedown Comes After Harm Is Done': Justice PS Narasimha

Speaking at an event, Supreme Court judge Justice PS Narasimha today raised a concern about the disproportionate targeting of women using deepfakes and lamented that harm has already occurred by the time takedown action is effected.."Let's talk about the problem we are all facing, relating to deepfakes...non-consensual, synthetic imagery disproportionately targeting women,...

India Subscribes To All Religions, Never Declares Itself A Hindu State : Justice NK Singh

Justice NK Singh of the Supreme Court recently said that India's Constitution never declared India to be a Hindu State and India was one of the few countries in the world which subscribed to many religions."If you read the Constitution of so many other countries, they subscribe to a particular faith that is, this is a Christian State or this is an Islamic State. There are very very few...

Centre Proposes Constitution Amendment To Increase Lok Sabha Seats To 850 & Allow Delimitation Based On Pre-2026 Census

The Bill also proposes to expedite the implementation of the women's reservation immediately after delimitation.