BREAKING- Hijab Ban: Student Moves Supreme Court Challenging Karnataka HC's Interim Order Disallowing Religious Dress In Colleges During Pendency Of Cases

A special leave petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the interim observations made by the Karnataka High Court yesterday directing no religious dress in colleges during pendency of the case challenging the Hijab Ban.A Full Bench of the Karnataka High Court had on Thursday observed that it will issue an order in this regard.The petitioner has produced tweets from Live...

PMLA's Original Intent Getting Lost With Ordinary Crimes Being Added As Scheduled Offences : Senior Lawyers Argue In SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday continued hearing batch of petitions concerned with the interpretations of various provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 ("PMLA Act")The matter was listed before the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar.Submission Of CounselsVacuum In Special Legislation Is To Be Filled By CrPC: Senior Advocate Vikram...

'Judicial Officer Battling With Mother In Her': Supreme Court While Reinstating District Judge Who Resigned Out Of Desperation

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, reinstated a woman Additional District and Sessions Judge ("AD&SJ"), who was constrained to resign, after she raised allegations of sexual harassment against a then sitting Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The Court's indulgence was, inter alia, sought in directing the reinstatement of the petitioner as AD&SJ from the date...

Plea To Extend Cut-Off Date To Consider Experience Of Service In Government Hospitals Of Remote And Difficult Areas: SC Asks Petitioners To Approach Concerned Authorities

Giving liberty to them to submit a representation to the concerned authorities, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere on the plea of 3 doctors for a direction to extend the September 30, 2021 cut-off to consider their experience of service in Government hospitals of remote and difficult areas.The petitioners are doctors serving in the Rajasthan state services. They have been...

Supreme Court Gives Last Chance To Vijay Mallya To Appear In Sentence Hearing In Contempt Case

While giving last opportunity to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya to appear, the Supreme Court of India on Thursday expressed a clear intention to go ahead with the sentence hearing in the contempt case against him, and posted the matter for hearing on February 24th, 2022.Vijay Mallya was found guilty of contempt in 2017 for disobeying court's orders in not disclosing full particulars of...

Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple: Supreme Court Extends Time For Special Audit Till 30th June

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday granted time upto 30th June 2022 for completion of the special audit of 25 years ordered by the Court in 2020 for the iconic Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple at Thiruvananthapuram.A Bench comprising Justice UU Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat granted the extension in pursuance of applications filed for extension of time by the Administrative Committee and...

Desist From Sending WhatsApp Messages To Judges : Supreme Court To Hira Gold Scam Victims

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court asked the duped investors in the Heera Gold Scam case to refrain from attempting to establish communication with Apex Court Judges through WhatsApp messages. While hearing an appeal filed by Investigating Agencies against Heera Gold Exim Pvt. Ltd. and its Managing Director, Nowhera Shaikh for defrauding investors, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul expressed...

Persuade Judicial Officers Having Good Track Record To Withdraw Resignation : Supreme Court To HCs

The Supreme Court endorsed the practice followed by some High Courts of persuading a Judicial Officer having good track record to withdraw the resignation tendered by him/her."Losing a good Judicial Officer without counselling him/her and without giving him/her an opportunity to introspect and re­think, will not be in the interest of either the Judicial Officer or the Judiciary", the...

Supreme Court Permits Unitech Promoters Sanjay And Ajay Chandra To Have One Video Conferencing Meeting Every Fortnight With Their Lawyers

The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted Unitech promoters Sanjay and Ajay Chandra to have one video conferencing meeting every fortnight with their lawyers for a duration of one hour, with the added caveat that they shall furnish to the superintendent of the jail in advance the identity of the advocate or, as of the case maybe, the advocates, with whom the meeting will be held together with...

Hijab Ban : No Religious Dress In Colleges During Pendency Of Case, Says Karnataka High Court| LIVE UPDATES [Day 3]

A Full Bench of the Karnataka High Court will hear petitions filed by Muslim students challenging Hijab Ban in colleges at 2.30 PM today.A single bench had referred the petitions to larger bench yesterday observing that "questions of seminal importance" are involved.The single bench also said that the question of interim relief will be considered by the larger bench.The matter is before a...

Breaking | Union Minister's Son Ashish Mishra Granted Bail By Allahabad High Court In Lakhimpur Kheri Violence Case

The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to Ashish Mishra, prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident. Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra 'Teni', had moved the court after his bail plea was rejected by the Lower court.The matter in briefEssentially, a case was registered against Mishra for an incident that took place on October 3, when several farmers were...

'We Are A Secular Country; There Is An Effort To Divide The Country By Religion' : Madras HC CJ

While hearing a public interest litigation before Madras High Court to mandate the customary dress code for entry inside temple complexes, Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari expressed anguish at the divisive narratives in the name of religion.Reminding that our country is secular, the Chief Justice cautioned that there is an effort to divide the country by religion." What is of...