SC Keeps In Abeyance Delhi HC Order Allowing Dinakaran To Use Common Poll Symbol [Read Order]

In a big blow to AIADMK faction group leader TTV Dinakaran, the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday kept in abeyance the Delhi High Court’s single judge bench order allowing him to use a common poll symbol -- preferably 'pressure cooker' -- and a suitable party name to carry on with his politics.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice AM Khanwilkar asked the Acting Chief Justice of...

What Kind Of PIL Is This? How Can SC Ask Pak Not To Violate Ceasefire?”CJI Misra

Supreme Court today refused to admit a PIL which sought a direction to the Centre  to take the matter of the violation of ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan before the International Court of Justice for the “amicable resolution” of the disputes between the two nations with Chief Justice Dipak Misra asking “how can we get into all these? What kind of PIL is...

SC Seeks Centre’s Affidavit on PIL to Exclude Creamy Layer among SC/ST from Reservation Benefits

The Supreme Court today sought the view of the Centre in the form of an affidavit on a PIL that sought exclusion of the creamy layer, that is relatively wealthier or well educated, among SC/ST tribes in matters of providing reservation in jobs and education sector.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar granted the Centre four weeks to file the affidavit and posted...

Judicial Review Is Possible Only If There Is Unreasonableness, Irrationality Or Arbitrariness, Bias And Mala Fides, Reiterates SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, in Municipal Corporation, Ujjain vs. BVG India Limited, has reiterated that unless the court concludes that the decision-making process or the decision taken by the authority bristles with mala fides, arbitrariness, or perversity, or that the authority has intended to favour someone, the constitutional court will not interfere with the decision-making process or the decision...

SC Dismisses Plea To Re-Open Mahatma Gandhi Assassination Probe

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition which sought a direction to re-open the Mahatma Gandhi assassination case probe.After 12 hearings spanning seven months, a bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao said: "The petition is dismissed".The bench was delivering judgment on the petition filed by one Dr Pankaj Phadnis who had sought a further probe into a “new fact” that...

Congress’s Bid to Initiate Impeachment Motion Against CJI Dipak Misra Gathers Steam: Reports

The Indian National Congress, along with some other opposition parties, has reportedly initiated the process for impeachment of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.According to a Times Now report, the impeachment draft has already been signed by the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Sharad Pawar. Another report by The Economic Times indicated that leaders of...

Aadhaar[Day 22]: SC Expresses Concern Over Security Of Data And Abuse Of Authentication Records

On Day 22 of the Aadhaar final hearing, Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey, UIDAI CEO, resumed his submissions on the technical and security-related aspects of the Aadhaar project with the aid of the PowerPoint presentation.“Is it possible that the enrolment agencies save the biometric information before it is encrypted and transmitted to the CIDR”, inquired Justice DY Chandrachud.“The biometric...

SC Collegium Recommends Appointment Of 6 Advocates As Judges Of 2 HCs [Read Resolutions]

The Supreme Court Collegium, on Monday, recommended the appointment of five Advocates practicing at Calcutta High Court as High Court Judges.The Collegium, comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Ranjan Gogoi has recommended elevation of the following five Advocates: Biswajit Basu Amrita Sinha Sutanu Kumar Patra Abhijit Gangopadhyay Jay...

Breaking: “Is Prior Sanction Mandatory For Referring A Complaint Against Public Servant For Investigation U/S 156(3) CrPC?” Question Referred To Larger Bench [Read Judgment]

In a significant development a two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul  on Tuesday referred the question ‘whether prior sanction for prosecution qua allegation of corruption in respect of a public servants is required before setting in motion even the investigative process under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973’...

SC Slams Uttarakhand,WB For Filing Affidavit With Names Of Rape Survivors; AORs Too Pulled Up

” What is this going on? We simply don’t understand. Do you know AORs have some responsibility? You cannot be acting like a peon. Do you know it (naming rape survivors in the affidavit ) is an offence?? And you can be prosecuted under the IPC? Forget the state government officials. How could you file it without verifying?” Justice Madan B Lokur to Advocate on Record (AOR) for Uttarakhand...

Right To Choose Life Partner Is A Fundamental Right, Consent Of Family, Community, Clan Not Necessary For Marriage Between Two Adults: SC [Read Judgment]

When two adults marry out of their volition, they choose their path; they consummate their relationship; they feel that it is their goal and they have the right to do soAny kind of torture or torment or ill-treatment in the name of honour that tantamount to atrophy of choice of an individual relating to love and marriage by any assembly, whatsoever nomenclature it assumes, is illegal and...

Former Karnataka HC Judge Jawad Rahim Appointed As Acting Chairperson Of National Green Tribunal By SC [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed former Karnataka High Court Judge, Justice Jawad Rahim as the acting Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).The appointment was made by a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on a Petition filed by the NGT Bar Association.The Petition has challenged the Constitutional validity...