Judicial Service-A Candidate Applied For General Category Cannot Subsequently Claim Seat Reserved For Disabled Candidate:SC [Read Judgment]

"The claim under the PWD category should have been made in the application and the disability certificate should have been produced along with the application"

INX Media : SC To Pronounce Orders On Chidambaram's Bail Plea On Sep 5

The Supreme Court bench of Justices R Bhanumati and A S Bopanna on Thursday reserved orders on the petition filed by former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram against the August 20 judgment of the Delhi High Court that refused him pre-arrest bail in the INX media scam case.The Court has directed the Enforcement Directorate(ED) to submit the materials collected by it in a sealed cover...

Justice Sunil Gaur, Who Denied Bail To Chidambaram, Tipped To Head PMLA Appellate Tribunal

Government is likely to appoint Justice Sunil Gaur, who had rejected the bail plea of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case, as chairman of the PMLA Appellate Tribunal, reports PTINotably, three days before retirement, Justice Gaur had denied anticipatory bail to former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram by terming him the "kingpin and key conspirator" of the INX...

[Ayodhya Hearing][Day 14]: Babur Neither Visited Ayodhya Nor Constructed Mosque By Demolishing Temple: Hindu Body Tells SC

Mughal emperor Babur neither visited Ayodhya nor ordered demolition of the temple to construct a mosque in 1528 at the disputed Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri masjid site, a Hindu body claimed before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. 'Akhil Bhartiya Sri Ram Janam Bhoomi Punarudhar Samiti', a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a Muslim party in the case, referred to the historical books like...

NDPS: Reverse Burden Of Proof Does Not Absolve Prosecution From Establishing Prima Facie Case Against Accused: SC [Read Order]

"Because there is a reverse burden of proof, the prosecution shall be put to a stricter test for compliance with statutory provisions."

INX Media - There Is No Retrospective Application Of PMLA Against Chidambaram : Solicitor General

Countering the arguments of Chidambaram's lawyers that Prevention of Money Laundering Act was being retrospectively applied to Chidambaram, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted on Wednesday that the money laundering continued even after the 2007 INX FDI deal. Senior Advocate Dr A M Singhvi had submitted yesterday that sections added to PMLA in 2009 were invoked against Chidambaram...

Take Measures To End Caste Discrimination In Campuses: Mothers Of Rohit Vemula, Payal Tadvi Move SC [Read Petition]

Mothers of Rohit Vemula and Dr Payal Tadvi have approached the Supreme Court seeking a sound mechanism to end the caste-based discrimination campuses.Rohit Vemula, a PhD Scholar at University of Hyderabad working for rights of the Dalit community, was a member of the Ambedkar Students Association. He committed suicide after he was suspended from his campus residence on the basis of a complaint...

SC To Consider Request For Suo Moto Action On The Case Of Missing Law Student

The law student from UP went missing after making sexual harassment allegations against BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand

Got Communication From Law Ministry On Justice Kureshi's Elevation: CJI Gogoi

The Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogi on Wednesday told the counsel of Gujarat High Court Advocates Association that he had received a communication from the Ministry of Law and Justice regarding the Collegium's recommendation to elevate Justice Akil Kureshi as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.He said the communication, which was received on August 27, will be placed before...

Breaking: [Article 370] SC Refers Petitions Challenging Abrogation Of Special Status And Bifurcation Of J&K To Constitution Bench

The Supreme Court on Wendesday referred to Constitution Bench the petitions challenging the validity of the the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir and the downgrading of the state into a Union Territory.The bench of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S A Bobde and Abdul Nazeer said that the matters will be heard in October.The Court issued notice on the petitions overruling the...

Breaking : SC Allows Sitaram Yechury To Travel To Kashmir To Meet CPI(M) Leader Tarigami [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), to travel to Kashmir to meet detained party leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami to ascertain his whereabouts and medical welfare.The bench consisting of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S A Bobde and Abdul Nazeer observed that citizens must be allowed to have access to Jammu and...

Shah Faesal,Shehla Rashid Move SC Challenging Abrogation Of Art.370, Bifurcation Of State [Read Petition]

"All the Impugned orders and acts vitiate the principle of federalism, which is part of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. Impugned Orders affect a complete and a wholesale supersession of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir even to the extent of Jammu and Kashmir ceasing to be State, as demonstrated by the passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 in Parliament. They are therefore in clear violation of this right to autonomy of the State that inhere in its residents' part III rights and destructive of the basic structure of the Constitution of India as applied to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and are therefore liable to be held to be void and inoperative under Article 13".