Delhi Riots- Facebook India VP's Challenge against Delhi Assembly Summons: Live Updates From Supreme Court

[Facebook India VP's Challenge against Delhi Assembly Summons] Supreme Court bench headed by Justice SK Kaul is hearing Facebook India Vice President, Ajit Mohan's plea challenging the summons issued to him by Delhi Assembly's Committee on Peace and...

Breaking: Supreme Court Grants Bail To Kannada Actress Ragini Dwivedi In Sandalwood Drug Case

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to Kannada actor Ragini Dwivedi, who had been arrested by the police for allegedly consuming and supplying drugs at parties and events organized by her and others, and set aside a Karnataka High Court order wherein her bail plea was dismissed.A Bench headed by Justice Rohinton F. Nariman heard the arguments put forth by Senior Advocate...

[Breaking] Bombay High Court Dismisses Sonu Sood's Plea For Interim Relief Against BMC's Demolition Notice

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Bollywood actor Sonu Sood seeking interim relief against an unauthorized construction notice issued to him by the local civic body (BMC), in Mumbai. His plea was earlier rejected by the City Civil Court, last month.A single bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan dismissed the petition, granting no relief to the actor. The notice...

Gujarat High Court Restrains Govt From Notifying 'Disturbed Area' For 'Improper Clustering' Under Amended Disturbed Areas Act [Watch Hearing]

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday restrained the State Government from declaring any area as "disturbed area" under Section 3(1)(ii) of the Gujarat Disturbed Areas Act, 1991, for "improper clustering of persons of one community."A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Ashutish J Shastri sought the Government's response on a PIL filed by...

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination : President And Not Governor The Competent Authority To Pardon Perarivalan, Centre Tells Supreme Court

In the matter of release of A.G. Perarivalan, the convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Centre on Wednesday submitted that it is the President under Article 72 and not the Governor under Article 161 who is competent to grant pardon/remission."If the entire representation was given to an authority which lacks the jurisdiction to consider the representation, then the right, which...

Ready To Suspend Implementation Of Farm Laws For 1-1.5 Yrs To Mutually Discuss The Solution: Agri. Minister Narendra Tomar

The 10th round of talks between agitating farmer unions and the government over the issue of contentious Farm Laws today got over without any concrete results as the 'Delhi Chalo' farmers' agitation has entered the 56th day today. As reported by Money Control, today, in the first half of the meeting, the farm leaders raised the issue of NIA notices being issued to various union leaders....

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea To Close Ashrams Run By 'Fake Babas'

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a writ petition which sought directions to close ashrams run by 'fake babas', saying that the matter did not fall within its realm.The petition was filed by one Dumpala Ram Reddy seeking to shut down all ashrams run by "fake babas" saying that several innocent persons, particularly women, were kept in confinement there.The petitioner's...

Rape Victim Also Suffers Discrimination From Society: Supreme Court Issues Directives To Jharkhand Administration In A Rape Victim's Plea

A rape victim suffers not only a mental trauma but also discrimination from the society, the Supreme Court said while disposing a writ petition filed by a Rape Victim belonging to a Scheduled Tribe in Jharkhand.The victim had approached the Apex Court in 2019 by filing a writ petition contending that she was forcibly married to one Basant Yadav, in 1998. She further contended that she had one...

SC Constitutes Committee To Submit Suggestions To Facilitate Timely Filing Of Appeals/Petitions By Convicts

The Supreme Court has constituted a committee of experts to submit suggestions to facilitate access to justice and timely filing of appeals/petitions by convicts through legal service institutions.The Committee has been asked to submit a report within four weeks "with regard to digitization, translation and electronic transmission of records to facilitate access to justice and ...

"Data Collection Should Be Constitutionally Valid" - Justice Srikrishna Speaks On WhatsApp's New Policy, AarogyaSetu Etc. With Seema Chishti

Yesterday, the central government has asked Facebook-owned WhatsApp nine questions on their new proposed data policy said to affect users, as data shared over the popular messaging app is expected to be tightly integrated with Facebook. According to reports, about 8,10,000 users globally installed Signal on last week, nearly 18-fold compared with the download numbers on January 6, the...

Constitutional Error To Hold At This Stage That No Ground Exists To Review Aadhaar Verdict: Justice Chandrachud Dissents

It is a constitutional error to hold at this stage that no ground exists to review the judgment, Justice DY Chandrachud remarked in his dissent against dismissal of review petitions challenging Aadhaar verdict.The judge said that if these review petitions are to be dismissed and the larger bench reference in Rojer Mathew were to disagree with the analysis of the majority opinion in...

Breaking- Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petitions Challenging Aadhaar Verdict, Justice Chandrachud Dissents

The Supreme Court, by 4:1 majority, has dismissed a batch of review petitions challenging the judgment of the Constitution Bench in Aadhaar case [Puttaswamy (Aadhaar-5J.) v Union of India].While Justices AM Khanwilkar, Ashok Bhushan, S. Abdul Nazeer and BR Gavai observed that no case for review of judgment, Justice DY Chandrachud expressed his dissent. The review petitions were not heard in...