Breaking: SC Issues Notice On Petition Challenging FCRA Amendments Allowing BJP And Congress To Receive Foreign Funds [Read Petition]

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a petition challenging the amendments made to the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2018 (FRCA) through the Finance Act, 2016, and Finance Act, 2018, which has been passed as a Money Bill with retrospective effect from the year 1976.The notice was issued by a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and...

SC Seeks Response From Yogi Government On UP Encounter Killings [Read Petition]

A Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra on Monday sought response in two weeks from Uttar Pradesh Government on a  petition seeking CBI or SIT probe into all the encounter killings in the state so far. The plea also sought compensation to victims’ families. The petition was filed by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) through counsel...

SC Seeks Assistance of AG in Petition Seeking Cashless Treatment to Victims of Road Accidents [Read Petition]

A petition seeking cashless treatment to all injured victims of road accidents has been filed in the Supreme Court. While considering the petition, the bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) sought the assistance of Attorney  General (AG)  K K Venugopal in the matter. Advocate Kamal Kumar Pandey, appeared for the petitioner and argued that under Article 21 of the Constitution of...

SC Issues Notices To 6 NLUs In Petition By IDIA Trainee On 5% Quota for Specially-Abled

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to six national law universities (NLUs) in a writ petition filed by a trainee of non-profit organisation Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) seeking implementation of the 5 per cent reservation quota for specially-abled students. The bench comprising Justice SA Bobde and Justice LN Rao observed that the benefit may not...

Pendency Concerns Being Addressed, Judges Being Appointed : CJI [Read Order]

Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay drops prayer seeking cutting down of vacations and a direction to all courts including SC to work six hours a day, 225 days a year.The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra today disposed of a PIL which sought urgent steps for reducing pendency of cases and appointment of judges to the High Courts saying “steps are being taken and no mandamus...

Cannot Drag On, Give Time Frame For Appointment Of Lokpal : SC To Centre

Centre informs SC that the selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting shortly to appoint Lokpal.Asking the Centre to expedite the process of appointment of a Lokpal, the Supreme Court sought today sought an affidavit from the government specifying the time frame within which definite steps will be taken.Significantly the bench headed by justice Ranjan Gogoi...

'A Couple Of Appointments Have Been Effected', SC Adjourns Hearing On Madras Bar Associations' Plea On Judicial Appointments

On the first day after the apex court opened post the summer vacation, the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra heard a writ petition by the Madras Bar Association praying for the fixing of timelines for each stage of the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for judicial appointments.Adjourning the matter to August, the bench, also comprising Justices D. Y. Chandrachud and A. M....

SC Issues Notice On PIL Seeking Filling Up Of Vacancies In Centre, State Information Commissions

The Supreme Court has issued notice to Central and State Governments in the Public Interest Litigation filed seeking the filling up of vacancies of Information Commissioners under the Right to Information Act.A Two Judge bench of Justice A.K Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan told ASG Pinky Amamd that it is a very serious issue."This is the situation in all institutions in the...

Breaking:SC Upholds The Appointments Of CVC KV Chaudhary And VC TM Bhasin [Read Judgment]

A two Judge Bench of Supreme Court on Monday upheld the appointments of of Mr. K.V. Chaudhary as the Central Vigilance Commissioner and Mr. T.M. Bhasin."We find no ground to quash the appointments", said the bench.The verdict was delivered on two PILs, by the NGO Common Cause and others and by the Centre for Integrity, Governance and Training in Vigilance Administration respectively,...

SC To Reopen Tomorrow With Action Packed Cases Lined Up

The Supreme Court will reopen tomorrow after a 42-day summer break, and the first fortnight is all set to be action-packed.Verdicts on crucial cases like the power struggle between Delhi Chief Minister and Lt Governor, the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, and the review petition filed by death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case are expected soon.Though it was widely expected that the...

Breaking: Justice TB Radhakrisnan Appointed As New CJ Of Telangana & AP HC, Justice AK Tripathi New Chhattisgarh CJ [Read Notifications]

The Centre on Sunday notified the appointment of Chief Justices for Telangana & Andhra Pradesh High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court.The notification confirms the long-standing recommendation to appoint Justice T.B. Radhakrishnan as the Chief Justice of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh High Court, and Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi as the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh high...

Alimuddin Lynching Case: Jharkhand HC Suspends Life Sentence Of BJP Leader Nityananda Mahto And 7 Others [Read Order]

Precisely a year after the unfortunate Ramgarh lynching incident of 2017, the Jharkhand High Court on Friday suspended the life sentence awarded to 8 convicts including BJP leader Nityananda Mahto in the CaseOn March 21, A Fast Track Court had imposed life imprisonment on Mahto and 10 other cow vigilantes for the alleged lynching of the deceased, Alimuddin Akhtar, on June 29 last year...