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"A Good Judgment But Reference To 'Shreya Singhal' Was Unnecessary": Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With Bombay HC Order Granting Bail To Alleged 'ISIS Recruit'
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that in granting bail to a young man accused of taking an oath of allegiance to the banned terror organization Islamic State and booked under the UAPA, it was unnecessary for the Bombay High Court to advert to the top court's 2015 Shreya Singhal decision and that the High Court's judgment can be sustained even independent of the said observation.The bench...
Can Centre Reject CJI's Recommendation For Court Allowance To SC Staff? Plea In Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on the plea raising the question whether, once the Chief Justice of India has decided to grant a 'Court Allowance' to the employees of the Apex Court, and sought the approval of the President under Article 146(2) of the Constitution for the same, can the Ministry of Law and Justice arbitrarily refuse approval, without assigning any reasons or referring...
Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea Challenging RTE Act Exemption For Madrassas & Vedic Pathshalas; Gives Liberty To Approach HC
On Friday, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea assailing Section 1(4) and 1(5) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 ("RTE Act") on the touchstone of Article 14, 15, 16, 21, 21A and the Preamble of the Constitution of India, to the extent that it excludes Madrasahs and Vedic Pathshalas from its ambit. A Bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao...
If Judicial Officers Are Governed By Judicial Pay Commission Question Of Invoking Any Other Rules Governing Other Govt Services Would Not Arise: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that if the Judicial Officers are governed by Judicial Pay Commission the question of invoking any other rules or provisions governing the other services of state government would not arise.The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar was considering SLP preferred by State of Tamil Nadu assailing Madras High Court's order dated September 5,...
Hijab Ban : Karnataka High Court Uploads Interim Order Banning Religious Dress In Classrooms In Colleges Where Uniform Is Prescribed
The Karnataka High Court on Friday uploaded the interim order passed in the petitions challenging Hijab ban in colleges in the state. The Court has requested the State to re-open the educational institutions at the earliest and has restrained students from wearing any sort of religious clothes in classrooms, regardless of their faith, while the matter is pending hearing. The interim order is...
Supreme Court Seeks Views On It Hearing Petitions Pending In HCs Against State Laws Giving Domicile Job Quota
The Supreme Court on Friday sought views regarding it transferring to itself the matters pending in different High Courts in relation to the validity of laws providing job quotas for domiciles.A bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai was hearing the special leave petition filed by the State of Haryana against the order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on February 3...
Hijab Ban - 'We Also Know What Is Happening In The State, We Will Hear At Appropriate Time' : CJI On Plea For Urgent Hearing
Responding to a request seeking urgent listing of petitions challenging the Hijab ban in Karnataka colleges, the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Friday said that the Supreme Court will see the issue at the "appropriate time" as the Karnataka High Court is seized of the matter.Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat mentioned the special leave petition filed against the move of the Karnataka High...
Karnataka Hijab Ban Reaches Supreme Court - Live Updates
Multiple petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the decision taken by the Karnataka High Court yesterday that students should wear no religious dress in colleges during the pendency of the case challenging the Hijab Ban.On Thursday, the Full Bench of Karnataka High Court made the following observations, while adjourning the hearing to February 14. "We will direct that...
Hijab Ban-Petitioners Before HC Moves Supreme Court Challenging Karnataka HC's Interim Order Disallowing Religious Dress In Colleges During Pendency Of Cases
Girls students practicing the Islamic faith, who were the original petitioners before the High Court, have approached Supreme Court assailing Karnataka High Court's interim order dated February 10, 2022.It has been stated in the SLP that the petitioners have been constrained to move the Top Court in grave urgency craving indulgence of the Supreme Court for protection of their fundamental...
Transfer Order Unsustainable If It Is Based On Irrelevant Ground & Not On Any Germane Factor : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court court observed that a transfer order is unsustainable if it is is based on an irrelevant ground and not on any factor germane for passing it.In this case, the writ petitioner alleged that hostile transfer orders were passed as she did not act as per the demands of the supervising High Court judge. She complained that was faced with transfer from a Category 'A' city to...
Youth Congress Leader BV Srinivas Moves Supreme Court To Recognize Right Of Muslim Girls & Women To Wear Hijab Out Of Their Own Choice As A Fundamental Right
Youth Congress president B V Srinivas and a journalism student have moved the Supreme Court seeking to recognize the right to Muslim girls and women to wear a hijab out of their own choice as a fundamental right. The plea also prays that the States must ensure that no girls are prevented from education and are not threatened in the name of religion or are not differentiated and...
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala Of Bombay High Court Resigns
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, judge of the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) has resigned.She was an additional judge of the High Court, whose extended tenure was set to expire on February 12, as the Supreme Court collegium did not recommend the extension of her term. She became a district judge in 2007 and was elevated as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on February 13, 2019, for a...