Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Filed By Student Challenging Rustication For Attempting To Organise Anti-CAA Protest

The plea had argued that the attempt to organize protests and make Anti CAA posts on Facebook were his constitutional rights, which the High Court didn't appreciate.

IT Rules 2021 : Supreme Court Lists Centre's Transfer Petitions, Connected Cases After 6 Weeks

The Supreme Court has listed after 6 weeks a group of petitions related to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021).The cases include the petitions filed by the Union Government seeking to transfer to the Supreme Court the cases filed in the High Courts challenging the IT Rules and also challenging the interim orders passed...

Six Additional Judges of Karnataka High Court Made Permanent [Read Notification]

The President has notified the appointment of six Additional Judges of the Karnataka High Court as Permanent Judges.These six Additional Judges are:1. Neranahalli Srinivasan Sanjay Gowda,2. Jyoti Mulimani,3. Rangaswamy Nataraj,4. Hemant Chandangoudar,5. Pradeep Singh Yerur and6. Maheshan Nagaprasanna.The Notification of the Central Government in this regard reads,"In exercise of the...

Will Verify If Khori Gaon Demolitions Were Carried Out As Per Directions : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday orally observed that once the demolition of unauthorised structures that have been planned by the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad at Khori Gaon is done, the action taken by the Corporation will be verified by the Court through an independent source. A Division Bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari observed that if action is not taken...

'Our High Courts Were Bastions Of Ensuring Justice During COVID' : Supreme Court Upholds Manipur HC's Directions On Pandemic Management

The Supreme Court today dismissed a special leave petition filed by the Manipur State Government challenging the High Court's order in which the Court had directed the state to frame exhaustive rules to regulate State's functioning towards combating CoVID in the state. The matter was listed before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and Hima Kohli. While dismissing...

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari's Wife's Plea Seeking Protection For His Life

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a writ petition filed by BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari's wife, Afshan Ansari seeking protection and safety of her husband's life as he remains lodged in Banda Jail in the State of Uttar Pradesh and attends the trial. The bench of Justices R Subhash Reddy and Sanjiv Khanna asked Ansari's wife to approach Allahabad High Court. Stating that Ansari is...

Breaking: Centre's Decision To Allow Early Administration Of COVISHIELD Vaccine Before 84 Days To Some Classes Of People Discriminatory

The Kerala High Court allowed the petition filed by two companies seeking to administer the second dose of COVISHIELD vaccine to its workers before completion of the 84 day-gap."The decision of the Government in providing relaxation in the protocol regarding administration of second dose of vaccine to certain classes of persons alone amounts to discrimination". Justice P.B. Suresh Kumar...

Presiding Deity Is Owner Of Land Attached To Temple, Not Pujari: Supreme Court Upholds MP Govt. Circulars

Presiding deity of the temple is the owner of the land attached to the temple and Pujari is only to perform puja and to maintain the properties of the deity, the Supreme Court observed while upholding the circulars issued by the Madhya Pradesh Government to delete the names of Pujari from revenue record pertaining to temple properties.These circulars issued by the Government under M.P....

"We Are Not The Court of First Instance": Supreme Court Declines To Entertain Plea To Remove Protesting Farmers From Singhu Border

Supreme Court allowed the petitioners to withdraw the plea with liberty to move the Punjab and Haryana High Court against Singhu Border Block.

Plea To Declare Virtual Court Hearing As Fundamental Right : Supreme Court Issues Notice To BCI, SCBA & 4 HCs

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Bar Council of India, Supreme Court Bar Association and four High Courts on a writ petition seeking a declaration that virtual court hearing is a fundamental right.A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai issued notice on the writ petition which sought for the retention of the hybrid options for physical and virtual hearings...

'You Have To Constitute GST Appellate Tribunal; No Question Of Filing Counter' : Supreme Court Tells Centre

While stressing on the need to make appointments to the unfilled vacancies in Tribunals across the Country, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Government to constitute the GST Appellate Tribunal, which has not been constituted even after 4 years of the Act having come into force.When Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta sought for time to file counter-affidavit in the...

'Can't Delve Into Conspiracy Theories' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea For International Task Force On CoVID Deaths

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain writ petition seeking directions to the Centre to set up an international task force of experts comprising of National and International experts (including from China)- reporting to this Top Court for determining if the Delta Variant could be a synthetic pathogen The petition which had also sought for apprising the Top Court of the steps to...