Toolkit Case : Bombay HC Reserves Orders For Tomorrow On Nikita Jacob's Transit Bail Plea - LIVE UPDATES

The Bombay High Court is consider today the application filed by Adv Nikita Jacob seeking transit anticipatory bail against the arrest warrant issued by Delhi Police in connection with the case registered over the toolkit shared by Greta Thunberg for Farmers Protest.Hearing is before a single bench of Justice PD Naik.Follow this page for live...

Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Affidavit On Steps Being Taken For OTT Regulation

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Central Government to inform what it proposes to do to regulate Over the Top(OTT) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+Hotstar etc.A bench headed by the Chief Justice of India asked the Union Ministry to file reply to the PIL filed by Advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha seeking the establishment of an autonomous body to regulate online...

Supreme Court Dismisses BJP Leader's Plea Seeking Opposition Leader Status In Mumbai Corporation

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a BJP leader's petition seeking Leader of Opposition status in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.A bench headed by the Chief Justice of India dismissed the special leave petition filed by Prabhakar Tukaram Shinde challenging a judgment of the Bombay High Court which rejcted his plea.He had sought the Leader of Opposition status in the Mumbai...

'To Flirt With A Junior Not An Acceptable Conduct For A Judge' : Supreme Court To MP Judge Facing Disciplinary Proceedings For Sexual Harassment

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed reluctance to entertain a petition filed by a former District Judge from Madhya Pradesh challenging the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the MP High Court over the sexual harassment allegations made by a junior judicial officer.Appearing for the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Senior Advocate Ravindra Srivastava read out before a bench headed by the...

Supreme Court To Consider PIL Seeking Inclusion Of Judges, Lawyers, Court Staff In COVID Vaccine Priority List

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will consider a PIL seeking inclusion of lawyers, judges and court-staff in the priority list for COVID vaccine.A bench headed by Chief Justice of India posted after two weeks the petition filed by Arvind Singh saying that judiciary and lawyers should also be regarded as frontline workers at par with doctors, police etc and should receive priority for...

Relief To First Year MBBS Students As SC Directs AIIMS Gorakhpur To Conduct An Exam For Student Denied Permission To Appear Due To Low Attendance

Supreme Court has on Tuesday granted relief to students denied permission to appear in the first year professional MBBS exam by AIIMS Gorakhpur on account of low attendance by directing the Management to hold another test. The Court has directed that an exam be conducted for 11 students, including 10 petitioners and one student with a similar status as that of the petitioners. A...

Timeline For Pronouncement Of Judgment Prescribed In Order XX CPC Does Not Apply To High Courts: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that timeline for pronouncement of judgment prescribed in Order XX of the Code of Civil Procedure does not apply to the High Court.In this case, the Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court set aside a judgment of the single judge on the ground of delay in delivery of judgment. The Division bench noted that the arguments in this case were finally concluded...

SCBA Elections To Be Conducted Physically Through Secret Ballot: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Directions To Election Committee

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Election Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association, to conduct the upcoming election strictly by way of secret ballot in physical form in terms of Supreme Court Bar Association Bye-laws. The petition filed by Advocate Pradeep Kumar Yadav has urged the Court to issue directions to the Joint...

Supreme Court To Hear Kerala Govt Plea Against Thiruvananthapuram Airport Lease To Adani Group On March 16

The Supreme Court on Monday posted to March 16 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Airport Authority of India(AAI) to lease out the management of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to Adani Enterprises Limited.The Kerala Government and few other individuals have filed Special Leave Petitions against the judgment of the Kerala High Court which upheld the lease of the...

'Toolkit' Has Nothing On Violence Or Incitement; Not Seditious : Justice Deepak Gupta, Former SC Judge, On Disha Ravi's Arrest

Commenting about the 'toolkit' which led to the arrest of 21-year old climate activist Disha Ravi, former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta said that he could not see anything "seditious" about the document."Every citizen of this country has a right to oppose the government so long as the opposition is peaceful", said Justice Deepak Gupta during a panel discussion on...

Strained Relations Between Rhea Chakraborty & Sushant's Sisters Not A Ground To Quash FIR Against Priyanka Singh : Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has observed that strained relations between actor Rhea Chakraborty and late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Priyanka Singh cannot be a ground to quash the charges pertaining to abetment of suicide and criminal conspiracy levelled by Chakraborty against Singh, at this stage. The court also refused to accept the contention raised by Priyanka's lawyers that...

"The Law Acts As Juggernaut For Hateful, Divisive And Schismatic Propaganda" Madhya Pradesh Freedom Of Religion Ordinance 2020 Challenged In SC

"It is unfortunate that the political and communal gimmick of 'Love Jihad,' which was earlier solely confined to the 'Us vs Them' narrative espoused by fake-propaganda machines (eg. 'WhatsApp University,' shady social media outlets, etc.), political rallies and societal fringes, has manifested itself as a legislation."