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Supreme Court's Live Streaming Gets Huge Public Response, Over 8 Lakh Views So Far
The live-streaming of the three Constitution Bench hearings of the Supreme Court today received wide public viewership on the first day. As per YouTube statistics, the three videos have crossed 8 lakh views as on 7.45 PM.Many social media users shared their happiness and excitement at witnessing the Supreme Court proceedings for the first time.Three Constitution Bench hearings were...
Bhima Koregaon Case : Supreme Court Seeks NIA, Maharashtra Govt Responses On Gautam Navalkha's Plea To Be Placed Under House Arrest Instead Of Jail
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday sought the responses of the National Investigation Agency and State of Maharashtra in a petition moved by Gautam Navalkha seeking to be placed in house arrest instead of Taloja jail in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.A bench comprising Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, while considering the matter, asked the counsel appearing for the...
Supreme Court Rejects Uddhav Group's Plea To Stop Election Commission From Deciding Eknath Shinde's Claim As Real Shiv Sena
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stop the Election Commission of India from deciding the claim of Eknath Shinde group as the real Shiv Sena. A Constitution Bench of the Court dismissed the application for stay filed by the Uddhav Thackeray group after a day long hearing."We direct that there would be no stay of the proceedings before the Election Commission of India. Accordingly,...
EWS Quota : Supreme Court Constitution Bench Reserves Judgment On Pleas Challenging 103rd Constitutional Amendment
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, reserved judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which introduced 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment.The 5-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala...
4th Constitution Bench Of Supreme Court Formed, Pleas Challenging Demonetisation Listed Tomorrow
One more Constitution Bench has been constituted in the Supreme Court to hear matters pending before 5-judge benches.The new bench comprises Justices S Abdul Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and BV Nagarathna. The bench will sit tomorrow to consider five cases. The petitions filed in 2016 challenging the decision of the Central Government to demonetise the currency notes of...
Aam Aadmi Party Made Statements Against Delhi LG In Reckless Manner, Corruption Allegations Based On Hearsay: High Court
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the tweets and statements by Aam Aadmi Party and its five leaders against Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, alleging corruption by him, were made in a reckless manner, without any factual verification, to tarnish his image.Justice Amit Bansal restrained the party and the five leaders from posting any defamatory or factually incorrect...
Allow Euthanasia Or Culling Of Violent And Rabid Stray Dogs : Kerala Govt Requests Supreme Court
The Kerala government has requested the Supreme Court to permit euthanasia or culling of violent and vicious stray dogs, particularly those dogs suspected of having contracted rabies.The Court was told that the state Government had issued an order on September 15 in consonance with the high-level meeting chaired by the Minister for Local Self Government Department to deal with various...
Breaking: SC Collegium Recommends To Elevate Bombay HC Chief Justice Dipankar Datta As Judge of Supreme Court
Supreme Court Collegium has recommended to elevate Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta as a Judge of the Supreme Court.Born in February 1965, Justice Datta is the son of a former Calcutta High Court Judge, late (J) Salil Kumar Datta and brother-in-law of Justice Amitava Roy, former Supreme Court Judge.He obtained his LL.B. degree from the University of Calcutta in 1989 and was...
EWS Quota Case-Supreme Court Hearing-Day 7 - Live Updates
Supreme Court Constitution Bench to continue hearings on cases challenging the constitutional validity of reservations for Economically Weaker Sections.Live Updates- Day 1Live Updates- Day 2Live Updates- Day 3Live Updates- Day 5Live Updates- Day 6Follow this page for live...
Permanent Injunction Cannot Be Sought On The Basis Of An Unregistered Agreement To Sell : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a relief of permanent injunction cannot be sought on the basis of such an unregistered document/agreement to sell.A plaintiff cannot get the relief indirectly which otherwise he/she cannot get in a suit for for specific performance, the bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari observed.In this case, the plaintiff filed a suit praying for a decree of...
Supreme Court Asks Petitioner To Come Back With "Structured Reliefs" In Plea Relating To Assam-NRC
The Supreme Court, on Monday, deferred the hearing of the plea, inter alia, seeking Court's indulgence to stop the alleged harassment of people belonging to religious and linguistic minority communities in Assam in the guise of detection and deportation of alleged foreigners. The petition also seeks direction to authorities to not delete/exclude names from the 'final draft' of the NRC...