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After RTI Activist Flags Vacancies In Information Commissions, Supreme Court Seeks Data From Centre & States On CIC/SICs
The Supreme Court today called on the Centre and states to furnish data regarding vacancies in Central/State Information Commissions as well as the proposed timelines for appointment of Information Commissioners thereto.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan passed the order in a PIL raising the issue of large number of vacancies in information commissions set up under the Right...
Supreme Court Suspends Sentence Of 2 Convicts In 2003 Murder Case Of Chhattisgarh NCP Leader Ram Avatar Jaggi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (November 26) suspended the life imprisonment of two persons who were convicted for the murder of Nationalist Congress party leader Ram Avatar Jaggi in Chhattisgarh in 2003.The Court suspended the sentence of convicts Feroz Sidhique and Abhay Goel and ordered that they be released on bail during the pendency of the appeals on terms and conditions to be fixed by...
Supreme Court Stays Trial In Rabia Saifi Murder Case, Seeks Authorities' Response On Father's Plea For CBI Probe Into Conspiracy
On hearing her father's plea to transfer the case to CBI, the Supreme Court yesterday stayed the trial in the murder case of Rabia Saifi, a 21-year-old Civil Defense volunteer with the Delhi government, who was stabbed to death in August, 2021. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Prasanna B Varale passed the order, while issuing notice to the Haryana Police, on a petition filed by...
Sheena Bora Murder Case : Indrani Mukerjea Approaches Supreme Court Seeking Permission To Travel Abroad
Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the high-profile murder case of Sheena Bora, has approached the Supreme Court seeking permission to travel to Spain and the United Kingdom (UK).She filed a Special Leave Petition against the Bombay High Court's order which denied her permission to travel abroad. Mukerjea submitted that she was a British Citizen seeking permission to visit Spain and her...
Pennaiyar River Dispute | 'Mediation Process Has Failed' : Tamil Nadu And Karnataka Govts Tell Supreme Court
The Supreme Court was informed today that mediation process between the States of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in relation to the dispute over sharing of Pennaiyar river water resources has failed.The matter was before a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti, which granted 2 weeks' time to the Union (which facilitated the mediation) to produce the Negotiation Committee's report.Briefly...
Supreme Court Allows Scribe For 100 Percent Blind Law Graduate To Attend CLAT-PG Exam
The Supreme Court on November 25 allowed a 100 percent blind law student to avail the assistance of a scribe, as appointed by the Consortium of the National Law Universities, to appear for the Common Law Entrance Test (CLAT)- Postgraduate exam 2024-25 scheduled on December 1. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan heard a writ petition filed by three petitioners advocating for...
Supreme Court Allows NIA's Plea To Transfer 8 Criminal Cases From Manipur To Assam
The Supreme Court today (November 26) allowed the transfer petition filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the transfer of 8 criminal cases pending before the NIA, Special Court in the district Imphal, State of Manipur, to the NIA Special Court, Guwahati, Assam. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan allowed the NIA's transfer petition taking into consideration...
Constitution Helped India's Transformation As A Mature &Vibrant Democracy : CJI Sanjiv Khanna
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna said that it was the Constitution which helped the transformation of India as a mature and vibrant democracy, which is today a self-assured nation and a geo-political leader."India since independence has had a transformative journey from a nation - suffering the aftermath horrors of the partition, widespread illiteracy, poverty and hunger, lack of a...
Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Kuldip Singh, Known As 'Green Judge', Passes Away
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Kuldip Singh, 92, passed away in Chandigarh yesterday evening.He served as a judge of the Supreme Court for eight years from 14.12.1988 to 21.12.1996. He was known for his contributions to the field of environmental law, earning him the moniker 'the green judge'. For long, he presided over the bench which handled the MC Mehta case in which several orders...
Gujarat Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Journalist Mahesh Langa In Cheating FIR, Says Dispute Over Non Payment Of Money Is Civil In Nature
A Sessions Court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Monday (November 25) granted anticipatory bail to Journalist and Senior Assistant Editor at 'The Hindu' newspaper Mahesh Langa in a cheating FIR registered against him on a complaint filed by an individual running an advertising agency. The court granted the bail after noting that as per the contents of the FIR, the dispute between the parties was for...
'If You Win, EVMs Aren't Tampered; When You Lose, They Are Tampered' : Supreme Court Dismisses PIL To Use Paper Ballots For Voting
The Supreme Court today (November 26) dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by evangelist Dr. K.A. Paul seeking physical ballot voting in India. Other prayers included issuing directions to the Election Commission to disqualify candidates for at least 5 years if found guilty of distributing money liquor and other inducements during elections. Appearing as petitioner-in-person, Dr. Paul...