Rape Victim Also Suffers Discrimination From Society: Supreme Court Issues Directives To Jharkhand Administration In A Rape Victim's Plea

A rape victim suffers not only a mental trauma but also discrimination from the society, the Supreme Court said while disposing a writ petition filed by a Rape Victim belonging to a Scheduled Tribe in Jharkhand.The victim had approached the Apex Court in 2019 by filing a writ petition contending that she was forcibly married to one Basant Yadav, in 1998. She further contended that she had one...

SC Constitutes Committee To Submit Suggestions To Facilitate Timely Filing Of Appeals/Petitions By Convicts

The Supreme Court has constituted a committee of experts to submit suggestions to facilitate access to justice and timely filing of appeals/petitions by convicts through legal service institutions.The Committee has been asked to submit a report within four weeks "with regard to digitization, translation and electronic transmission of records to facilitate access to justice and ...

"Data Collection Should Be Constitutionally Valid" - Justice Srikrishna Speaks On WhatsApp's New Policy, AarogyaSetu Etc. With Seema Chishti

Yesterday, the central government has asked Facebook-owned WhatsApp nine questions on their new proposed data policy said to affect users, as data shared over the popular messaging app is expected to be tightly integrated with Facebook. According to reports, about 8,10,000 users globally installed Signal on last week, nearly 18-fold compared with the download numbers on January 6, the...

Constitutional Error To Hold At This Stage That No Ground Exists To Review Aadhaar Verdict: Justice Chandrachud Dissents

It is a constitutional error to hold at this stage that no ground exists to review the judgment, Justice DY Chandrachud remarked in his dissent against dismissal of review petitions challenging Aadhaar verdict.The judge said that if these review petitions are to be dismissed and the larger bench reference in Rojer Mathew were to disagree with the analysis of the majority opinion in...

Breaking- Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petitions Challenging Aadhaar Verdict, Justice Chandrachud Dissents

The Supreme Court, by 4:1 majority, has dismissed a batch of review petitions challenging the judgment of the Constitution Bench in Aadhaar case [Puttaswamy (Aadhaar-5J.) v Union of India].While Justices AM Khanwilkar, Ashok Bhushan, S. Abdul Nazeer and BR Gavai observed that no case for review of judgment, Justice DY Chandrachud expressed his dissent. The review petitions were not heard in...

'We Also Want To Get Back To Action': Supreme Court Expresses Intention To Reassess Possibility Of Physical Hearings

Two Benches of the Supreme Court expressed an inclination on Wednesday during separate instances to reassess the possibility of resuming physical hearings. A Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India observed that the Court was eager to "go back to action", however, the same would be done only after taking into account the opinion of health authorities. The Court was presiding over...

'They Are Brilliant Minds; Why Malign Them For Their Views?' : CJI On Criticism Against Farm Laws Committee

The Chief Justice of India on Wednesday expressed unhappiness at the public criticism against the members of the committee constituted by the Supreme Court to negotiate on the farmers protests.The CJI orally remarked that "unnecessary aspersions" were cast on the committee members and they were "maligned" just because they had expressed certain views in the past on the farm laws."Aspersions...

"Farmer Unions Will Not Appear Before Committee, They Are Totally Convinced That Farm Laws Need To Be Repealed": Dave, Bhushan Tell Supreme Court

The farmers unions are 'totally convinced' that the farm laws need to be repelled and therefore they will not appear before the committee to discuss amendments, submitted Advocate Prashant Bhushan and Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.Bhushan and Dave are appearing for the eight farmers unions which were added as respondents by the Supreme Court in December...

'We Trust That The Chief Justice Of Delhi HC Will Do The Needful' : SC Disposes Of As Withdrawn Lawyers' Pleas Against Physical Hearings In Delhi

The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of as withdrawn two pleas challenging the decision of the Delhi High Court to resume large-scale physical hearings before itself and subordinate courts in Delhi with effect from January 18, without giving a choice to lawyers to appear through the virtual. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde disposed of the petitioners after...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea For Reconstitution Of Committee To Resolve Deadlock Between Farmers and Govt

The Supreme Court has issued notice on an application seeking re-constitution of the Committee appointed by the Top Court for the purpose of holding talks between the Central Government and the farmers for a resolution of the protests due to the three contentious farm laws.The Court noted that there is a vacancy in the committee following the resignation of BS Mann. The Bench led by CJI...

"We Will Not Pass Orders, You Withdraw It":Supreme Court Allows Centre To Withdraw Plea To Restrain Farmers' Tractor Rally On Republic Day

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Delhi police to withdraw its application seeking for an injunction against the tractor rally proposed to be carried out by farmers in Delhi on the Republic Day to show their protest against the contentious farm laws."The norm is that police decides if permission should be granted or not. You are the executive of the country and have the authority...

Farm Laws And Farmers Protest: Supreme Court Hearing- Live updates

Supreme Court Bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian starts hearing the matter concerning the ongoing farmers protests against the farm laws. An application had been filed by the Delhi Police seeking directions to prevent farmers march in the form of tractor march on the Republic Day. A plea has also been filed by Bhartiya Kisan Union Lokshakti, seeking...