Breaking: Supreme Court Dismisses Plea By Sushant Singh Rajput's Sister To Quash FIR Against Her Based On Rhea Chakraborty's Complaint

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Priyanka Singh challenging the Bombay High Court's refusal to quash FIR filed against her by Mumbai Police on actor Rhea Chakraborty's complaint. "We are not inclined to entertain the petition", a bench headed by CJI Bobde told Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, who was appearing for Priyanka. The Bombay High Court...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Subramanian Swamy's Plea Challenging Provisions Of Places of Worship Act

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a PIL filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the Constitutional validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991.A Bench comprising of CJI SA Bobde and Justice AS Bopanna issued notice and tagged the matter with Ashwini Upadhyay's plea seeking similar relief."That the Act of 1991is unconstitutional is also void ab initio...

Supreme Court Allows Tata Sons Appeal Against NCLAT Order To Reinstate Cyrus Mistry As Chairman

In a big win for Tata Sons Ltd, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed its appeal against the order of the National Company Law Tribunal, which had ordered to reinstate the ousted Chairman Cyrus Mistry.The Court allowed the appeal of Tata Sons, answering all questions of law framed in the case in its favour, and set aside the NCLAT order. The appeals filed by Shapoorji Pallonji group and...

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Electoral Bonds, Says Sufficient Safeguards Already There

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the release of the fresh set of electoral bonds from April 1 for the assembly polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry.The Court dismissed the application filed by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms seeking stay of the bonds.Since the bonds were allowed to be released in 2018, 2019 and 2020 without interruption,...

Deportation Of Rohingyas Not Only Violates Art. 21 And International Norms But Like Sending Them To Torture Or Death:Petitioner To Supreme Court

In connection with the Rohingya matter, an additional affidavit has been filed before the Supreme Court, against the proposed deportation of the members of the Rohingya community, who have fled persecution in Myanmar and taken refuge in India."The deportation would not only violate their Article 21 right and all international norms but "would almost be like sending them back to torture or...

Mukul Rohatgi Vs SG Tushar Mehta On CBI 's Jurisdiction In West Bengal [Courtroom Exchange In Coal scam Case Before SC]

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted ad interim protection from arrest to the prime accused in the West Bengal coal scam probe, Anup Majee, conditional on him joining in the investigation before the CBI and cooperating in the same. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, MR Shah and Sanjiv Khanna further clarified that this order is passed without expression of any opinion on the merits of...

West Bengal Coal Mining Case: Supreme Court Grants Interim Protection to Anup Majee

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted ad interim protection from arrest to the prime accused in the West Bengal coal scam probe, Anup Majee, conditional on him joining in the investigation before the CBI and cooperating in the same. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, MR Shah and Sanjiv Khanna further clarified that this order is passed without expression of any opinion on the merits of...

'All Reservations May Go And Only EWS May Remain; But That's A Matter Of Policy' : Supreme Court In Maratha Quota Case [Day 9]

On the 9th day of the proceedings pertaining to the challenge to the Maharashtra SEBC Act, 2018, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court observed that it was for the Government to take a decision on whether caste and reservations should go.A 5-Judge Constitution Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, L. Nageswara Rao, S. Abdul Nazeer, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat remarked that...

Tata Sons v. Cyrus Mistry: Supreme Court To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow

The Supreme Court will pronounce the judgment in Tata Son's appeal against the NCLAT order dated 18th December 2019 which reinstated Cyrus Mistry as the Executive Chairman of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. The judgment will be pronounced by a three judge bench comprising of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian. The bench had reserved the judgment in the case...

'Not Enough To Proudly Say Women Are Allowed To Serve Army When Their Service Conditions Tell A Different Story' : Supreme Court In Permanent Commission Case

Expressing anguish at the Indian Army's failure to implement the judgment allowing Permanent Commission for women officers, the Supreme Court said -"It is not enough to proudly state that women officers are allowed to serve the nation in the Armed Forces, when the true picture of their service conditions tells a different story".The judgment authored by Justice DY...

BREAKING : Supreme Court To Pronounce Order On Plea To Stay Electoral Bonds Tomorrow

The Supreme Court will pronounce its order tomorrow on an application seeking stay of the release of the fresh set of electoral bonds from April 1 for the assembly polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramaniam had reserved order on the application filed by NGO 'Association for...

Free Speech Of Citizens Cannot Be Stifled By Implicating Them In Criminal Cases: Supreme Court

Free speech of the citizens of this country cannot be stifled by implicating them in criminal cases, unless such speech has the tendency to affect public order, the Supreme Court remarked while quashing FIR registered against Shillong Times Editor Patricia Mukhim over a Facebook post on violence against non-tribal people in Meghalaya.The bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara and S. Ravindra...