COVID19: CJI Bobde Takes Inspection Round Of SC Corridors To Gauge Situation

The Supreme Court is leaving no stone unturned in containing the Coronavirus outbreak. In light of this, the Chief Justice SA Bobde along with Justices Ashok Bhushan & SK Kaul were out on an inspection round today in the Supreme Court corridors to gauge the situation in real time.After a spate of notifications ensued, declaring restricted hearings in Supreme Court from the week...

Social Media Posts In Question Not From Omar Abdullah's FB Account: Sara Pilot Tells SC [Read Rejoinder]

Countering the explanation offered by the District Magistrate, J &K of the preventive detention of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on February 5, his sister, Sarah Pilot, having moved the Supreme Court in a habeas corpus plea, has now contended that the material which the Magistrate claims to have relied on passing the impugned order has been revealed only for the first time in the...

[Breaking] SC Issues Notice On BJP Leaders' Plea For Floor Test In Madhya Pradesh Assembly; Posts Tomorrow

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on the writ petition filed by Bhartiya Janatha Party leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan and nine other BJP MLAs seeking immediate floor test for proving the majority of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh assembly.The matter is posted tomorrow at 10.30 AM.Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi , appearing for the petitioners before the bench comprising Justices D...

SC Directs Navy To Grant Permanent Commission For Serving Women SSC Officers [Read Judgment]

The SC upheld the 2015 Delhi HC verdict upholding women officers' claim.

[Breaking] President Of India Nominates Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi To Rajya Sabha [Read Notification]

The President of India has nominated Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha as a nominated member.Justice Gogoi, who was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on 3rd October 2018, had retired on 17th November 2019. The bench headed by him had delivered crucial judgments in cases like Ayodhya, Sabarimala, Rafale etc.The notification to this effect has been published in the Official...

Nirbhaya Convicts Write To International Court Of Justice Against Execution Of Death Sentence

Four days ahead of the scheduled execution of death warrants in the Nirbhaya case, three of the convicts wrote a letter to the judges of the International Court of Justice seeking stay of their executions.As per the latest death warrant, the four convicts are scheduled to be hanged on March 20 at 6 AM.In the letter sent by convicts Akshay Singh, Pawan Kumar Gupta and Vinay Sharma, they term...

AGR Judgment: DoT Moves SC Seeking 20-Yr Plan For Payment Of Dues By Telecom Companies

"DoT has requested the SC to allow payment of dues in installments with an interest rate of 8% per annum" The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has filed a plea in the Supreme Court for modification of the order dated October 24, 2019 vis-à-vis arriving at a formula for recovery of past dues from telecom service providers. In the instant appeal, the union...

[COVID 19] Precautionary Measures Should Be Strictly Followed By All Stake Holders: SCBA President Dushyant Dave

Pursuant to a meeting with the SC Judges and certain renowned medical experts, the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Dushyant Dave on Monday circulated a detailed message, intimating the requisite precautionary measures that should be observed by all the court staff, lawyers, litigants, and other stakeholders at all times, to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The message...

State Of Rajasthan Files Suit In SC Challenging Citizenship Amendment Act 2019

Following the State of Kerala, the State of Rajasthan has now filed an Original Suit in the Supreme Court under Article 131 of the Constitution challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.The suit filed by the Congress-ruled State seeks a decree declaring that the CAA is ultra vires the Constitution for being violative of Articles 14 and 21 and also the...

[COVID 19] Plea In Supreme Court To Expedite Introduction Of Live Streaming Of Court Proceedings [Read Petition]

Former RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya has moved a petition before the Apex Court for fixing an early date of hearing of his application pertaining to introduction of live streaming of the court proceedings. Asserting the emergent need to provide the facility of live streaming in light of the restricted court proceedings due to COVID-19 pandemic, Govindacharya submitted, "There are...

"You Are Saved By Grover's Curative Plea": SC Rejects Mukesh's Plea Alleging Conspiracy By Amicus Curiae

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking permission to file a fresh curative petition for one of the 2012 Delhi Gangrape and murder convicts, Mukesh Singh. The Bench comprising of Justices Arun Mishra and MR Shah found that the petition was not maintainable since it had been filed by Mukesh's brother, Suresh, and did not include any signed affidavit by the death row convict....

COVID-19: Plea In SC Seeks Govt's Combat Readiness For Exigency, Says India Needs "War-Like" Preparedness To Fight Pandemic [Read Petition]

A plea seeking directions to the Government for combating the spread of Coronavirus has been filed in the Supreme Court.The plea, filed by way of Public Interest Litigation, seeks directions for increasing Coronavirus testing laboratories and quarantine centres, keeping in mind the huge population of India.The Petitioner(s), Prashant Tandon & Kunjana Singh are journalists and social...