Supreme Court Rejects Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification, Issues Directions To Seal Symbol Loading Unit

In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday (April 26) rejected the pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) data with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) records.The verdict was delivered by a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta. Though the cases were reserved for orders on April 18, they were listed again on April 24 as...

Should Legislature Specifically Delete Provisions Which Are Struck Down By Courts? Supreme Court Discusses

A Supreme Court 9-Judge Constitution bench on Thursday (April 25), while hearing the issue of interpretation of Article 39(b), pondered whether the legislature needed to pass necessary amendments to delete a provision from the statute book after it has been struck down by the Court as unconstitutional.The matter is being heard by a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud,...

Supreme Court Judgment On EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates

The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment today at 10.30 AM on a batch of petitions seeking 100% verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slipsA bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta had reserved judgment on the petitions on April 18 after two days of hearing. The Court listed the...

Private Property Is Community Resource? Article 39(b) Can't Be Seen Through Economic Prism Or Political Ideology, AG Tells Supreme Court [Day 3]

The Supreme Court's 9-judge Constitution Bench today (April 25) resumed hearing the issue of whether the phrase 'Material Resource of The Community' in Article 39(b) of the Constitution covers in its ambit resources which are owned privately. Attorney General (AG) Mr R Venkataramani opened its arguments on interpretation of Article 39(b). The AG spotlighted that Article 39(b) has to be seen...

Following Supreme Court's Direction, Allahabad HC Enables E-Filing Facilities For Litigants 'In Person' At UP District Courts

In a communication addressed to all the District Judges in the State of Uttar Pradesh, the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday enabled e-filing for litigants 'in-person' through the e-Sewa Kendras of the District Courts of Uttar Pradesh to maximize the utilization of the eSewa Kendras. Importantly, this move comes 8 days after the Supreme Court's April 15...

Supreme Court To Deliver Judgment On Pleas For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification Tomorrow

The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment tomorrow on a batch of petitions seeking 100% verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slipsA bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta had reserved judgment on the petitions on April 18 after two days of hearing. The Court listed the petitions again...

Supreme Court Registry Refuses To Receive Petition To Abolish Collegium System & Revive NJAC

In the latest development, the Supreme Court's Registry (on April 24) refused to receive a writ petition seeking the abolition of the collegium system and to render the 2015 NJAC verdict as void ab initio.The petition was filed by Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara and few others. The Registrar, in his order, noted that the matter has already been decided by the Constitution Bench of the...

Arvind Kejriwal Connected With Proceeds Of Crime By Actively Assisting Making Of Delhi Liquor Policy : ED Tells Supreme Court

By assisting the formulation of the Delhi liquor policy which allegedly enabled liquor companies to recoup the bribes paid as profits, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is "directly and indirectly" involved in the process connected with the "proceeds of crime", said the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court.The affidavit is filed in response to...

3000 Tonnes Of Solid Waste Not Processed Daily In Delhi : Supreme Court Expresses Concerns

The Supreme Court recently observed that 3000 tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste is not being processed in Delhi on a daily basis and flagged concerns inter-alia about non-compliance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.The Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan was considering a report filed by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) with respect to the national capital...

Supreme Court To Start Sending WhatsApp Updates About Cases, CJI Says 'Potential To Have A Big Bang Impact'

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud today announced the new initiative of integrating the WhatsApp messaging services with the IT services, launched by the Supreme Court. As per the new initiative, all the Advocates on Record and Parties in Person will receive important updates relating to the filed cases directly to their WhatsApp numbers. The CJI opined this to have the potential of bringing a...

Supreme Court Doubts Argument That Private Property Isn't Included In 'Material Resources Of Community' As Per Article 39(b) [Day 2]

A 9-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 24) continued the hearing of the issue whether 'material resources of the community' includes privately owned resources in its ambit under Article 39(b) of the Constitution. Carrying forward from the previous day's discussion on Justice Krishna Iyer's minority decision in State of Karnataka v. Ranganatha Reddy &...

Supreme Court Imposes Rs 5 Lakhs Cost On Union Govt, Cautions Against Filing Frivolous Petitions In Future

The Supreme Court recently imposed a cost of Rs. 5,00,000/ on the Union of India challenging an order passed by the Meghalaya High Court based on the Union's own concession that a previous decision covered the matter. Deprecating the Union's move to challenge the High Court's order, the Supreme Court recorded that this was a “sheer abuse of the process of law” and cautioned the Union...