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...

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...