SCBA Files Contempt Petition Against Journalist Nikhil Wagle & MP Sanjay Raut For Comments Against CJI Surya Kant

The Attorney General granted consent to the SCBA to initiate contempt action.

Menstrual Hygiene A Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Warns States Of Contempt Over Non-Implementation Of Directions

The Supreme Court recently expressed displeasure over States and Union Territories failing to respond to the Union Government on the steps taken to implement its directions to ensure menstrual hygiene facilities in schools, in the judgment recognising menstrual hygiene as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution.The Court warned that it may issue contempt notices to the...

No Offence Made Out Against Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Over Remarks On Lord Hanuman: Police Tells Court

The Delhi Police has told a Delhi court that no cognizable offence is made out against Chief Minister Rekha Gupta over her alleged remarks invoking Lord Hanuman during a government programme.The police has said that the speech, when viewed in its entirety, reflected appreciation for government employees and respect for the deity.The submission has been made by the police an action taken...

RJD MP Manoj Jha Moves Supreme Court Challenging Lifelong Immunity To CEC, Election Commissioners; Calls It 'Fraud On Constitution'

RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha has approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of Section 16 of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023, terming it a "fraud" on the Constitution.Section 16 bars every Court in the country from entertaining or continuing any civil or criminal...

Immoral Trafficking Prevention | Supreme Court Asks NJA To Frame Guidelines For Magistrates' Inquiry About Adult Rescued Women

The Supreme Court has called for comprehensive guidelines to ensure uniformity in the conduct of a 'threshold inquiry' by Magistrates under Section 17 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITP Act), to determine whether rescued adult sex workers are engaged in sex work voluntarilly.The requested the National Judicial Academy (NJA) to prepare a comprehensive protocol for Magistrates...

Lawyers' Body To Hold Consultative Meeting On Karnataka High Court Bench At Mangaluru

Lawyers' Body To Hold Consultative Meeting On Karnataka High Court Bench At Mangaluru Ahead Of Three-Judge Committee's Feasibility Study. The meeting will be held on October 16 in Mangaluru. It comes after Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru set up a committee of Justices Anu Sivaraman, S.G. Pandit and Mohammad Nawaz to examine circuit or permanent benches in the coastal and Malnad regions.The...

Delhi Protests: SG Tushar Mehta Objects To 'Misleading' Reports On Govt Apology In Supreme Court

In the Delhi Protest matter, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta today assailed before Supreme Court certain media reports and social media posts claiming that the government has apologized to the Court for its conduct and has nothing to say on it. The SG submitted before a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that the authorities' affidavits, which began by saying that they...

Delhi Protests: Supreme Court Directs Police To Produce Prohibitory Orders Under S. 163 BNSS, Preserve CCTV Footage

The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi Police to place on record the prohibitory orders promulgated under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 (erstwhile section 144 of CrPC) restricting public gatherings and demonstrations on various dates over the past two weeks in Delhi.The Court also directed in its order that all law enforcement agencies preserve...

Delhi Protest | Supreme Court Orders No Coercive Action In SC/ST Case Against Woman Journalist Who Accused Delhi ACP Of Sexual Harassment

The Court indicated that it would lay down guidelines for protection of journalists covering protests.

'Contemptuous Conduct': Calcutta High Court Warns Ex-Judicial Officer Of Aggravated Contempt For Remarks Against Judge

The Calcutta High Court has warned a discharged judicial officer that any future use of “unconscionable” and inappropriate language against a judicial officer or a court could be treated as an act of aggravated contempt if contempt proceedings are initiated against him.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge and Justice Om Narayan Rai made the observation while...

Supreme Court Says It Will Examine Whether Delhi Police Applied Its Mind While Denotifying 'Jantar Mantar' As Protest Site; Issues Notice

The Supreme Court today issued notice on a writ petition challenging the Standing Order dated October 11, whereby Jantar Mantar has been de-notified as a designated protest site and three alternative venues have been notified by the Delhi Police.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymaya Bagchi orally observed that the Court will examine whether there had been an application of mind by...

Kolkata Court Restrains Mahua Moitra From Repeating “Vote Chor” Remark Against West Bengal Chief Secretary

A Civil Court in Alipore, has restrained Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra from newly publishing, reposting, sharing or repeating allegedly defamatory statements against Manoj Agarwal, including remarks accusing him of being a “Vote Chor” and of being responsible for illegally disenfranchising voters in connection with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The Civil...