Supreme Court Directs Medical College In Telangana To Pay 10 Lakh Compensation To PG Medical Course Aspirant For Illegally Denying Admission

The Supreme Court has directed a medical college in Telangana to pay Rupees Ten Lakh as compensation to a PG Medical Course aspirant for illegally denying admission in the college.The bench comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta also observed that one seat in MS (General Surgery) course from the Management Quota of Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences and Research Centre for...

Reservations Have Acted As a Form of Social Engineering to Address Centuries of Oppression and Discrimination: Justice Ravindra Bhat

"Reservations have acted as a form of social engineering to address centuries of oppression, extreme inequities in the distribution of educational opportunity"

Public Examinations: Supreme Court Deprecates Practice Of Re-evaluation And Scrutiny Of Answer Sheets By Courts

"Courts should be very slow in interfering with expert opinion in academic matters"

Persons Of Influence Have To Be More Responsible In Speech : Supreme Court In Amish Devgan's Case

In the judgment refusing to quash the FIR against News 18 anchor Amish Devgan, the Supreme Court observed that persons of influence have to be more responsible in speech."Persons of influence, keeping in view their reach, impact and authority they yield on general public or the specific class to which they belong, owe a duty and have to be more responsible", said the judgment delivered by a...

Development And Economic Growth Predominant Over Environmental Considerations: AG Defends Expansion Of National Highways In Supreme Court

"Sustainable development requires balance. The country needs broad National Highways for goods and people to move up and down, as against environmental considerations. The former must be predominant over environmental considerations", told AG K. K. Venugopal to the Supreme Court on MondayThe bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi was hearing the NHAI's SLP against...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks For Directions To Consider Demands Of Protesting Farmers and To Ensure They Are Provided Basic Amenities

A plea has been moved before the Supreme Court, seeking for directions to the Centre and the State to consider the demands of the farmers from Punjab and Haryana who have been agitating for the repeal of the farm laws. Seeking for directions to the Centre and State to ensure that arrangements for adequate facilities and basic amenities are made for the protesting farmers, the plea...

Hate Speech Repudiates Right To Equality In A Polity Committed To Pluralism : Supreme Court

'Hate speech' has no redeeming or legitimate purpose other than hatred towards a particular group.

Sushant Singh Rajput Death: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Direction To Complete CBI Investigation In 2 Months

A Writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court questioning the "silence" on part of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) regarding the status of its probe into the mysterious death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.The plea filed by Mumbai resident Puneet Kaur Dhanda and her husband, Advocate Vineet Dhanda has urged for issuance of directions to the CBI to complete...

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain PC George MLA's Plea To Postpone Kerala Local Body Polls

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition filed by Kerala MLA PC George seeking the postponement of local body polls in the State scheduled to start from tomorrow.A Bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao heard the matter and informed the Advocate for the Petitioner, Adolf Mathew, that the Apex Court would not be entertaining the matter. Mathew submitted to the Court...

'What Kind Of A Plea Is This?' : Supreme Court Adjourns Plea Seeking Compensation For Sufferings Due To Emergency

"What kind of a plea is this?", noted the Supreme Court on Monday while adjourning the plea filed by a 94 years-old widow, seeking for the Proclamation of Emergency in 1975 to be declared as unconstitutional and for a compensation to the tune of Rs. 25 crores from the authorities who have participated in the same. A Bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was presiding over the...

'This Is A Little Ambitious' : Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Arnab Goswami's Fresh Petition Against Mumbai Police FIR

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a writ petition filed by ARG Outlier Media Private Ltd(the company running Republic TV channels) and Arnab Goswami against the FIR registered by Mumbai police against the editorial team of the channels.A bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee expressed disinclination to entertain the petition and suggested that the same...

As Attorney General Grants Consent, Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Contempt Proceedings Against Comic Artist Rachita Taneja

A law student has moved the Supreme Court seeking initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against comic artist Rachita Taneja (Sanitary Panels), for her illustrative tweets depicting Supreme Court being hand in glove with the ruling party, BJP. "The three alleged posts in the form of cartoons/ caricatures have shaken the public trust and confidence in the judicial system of...