Tablighi Jamaat : SC Asks Foreign Nationals To Serve Copy Of Plea Against Blacklisting Order To Centre

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the foreign nationals who challenged the Ministry of Home Affairs's order blacklisting them for alleged participation in Tablighi Jamaat activities to serve the copy of their petition to the Central Government.A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna said that their pleas will be heard on Monday.Senior Advocate...

Breaking: SC Accepts CBSE Notification Cancelling Examinations [Read CBSE's Assessment Scheme For Class X & XII]

The Supreme Court on Friday accepted the draft notification issued by the Central Board of Secondary Examination regarding the assessment scheme for the cancelled examinations of Class X and XII exams.The CBSE filed an affidavit in the Court explaining the assessment scheme.The Assessment Scheme proposed by the CBSE for Class X and XII, from the affidavit submitted by it before the...

J&K Bar Association President Moves SC Against HC Order Upholding His Detention Under PSA

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a plea challenging the Jammu & Kashmir High Court's order, upholding the detention of Bar Association President Mian Abdul Qayoom.A vacation bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul & BR Gavai shall take up the Special Leave Petition at 11.30 AM against dismissal of the habeas corpus petition which challenged the preventive detention of the...

'Animal Sacrifice An Essential Religious Practice': Plea In SC Against Kerala HC Judgment Upholding Law Prohibiting Animals and Birds Sacrifices

An appeal has been filed before the Supreme Court against an order of the Kerala High Court, upholding the Constitutional validity of the Kerala Animals and Bird Sacrifices Prohibition Act, 1968. The appeal has been filed by one PE Gopalakrishnan, a Shakthi worshipper, claiming that animal sacrifice is an integral part of his religious practice and as such the High Court order...

Journalist Amish Devgan's Plea Seeking Quashing Of Multiple FIRs Against Him For Allegedly Insulting Sufi Saint: SC To Hear Tomorrow

Following a series of police complaints and FIRs against News 18 India's managing editor, Amish Devgan over his comment on renowned Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer, a plea seeking stay and quashing of all FIRs lodged against him has been preferred in the Supreme Court.Top Court shall hear the plea by a vacation bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari...

Can't Say Democracy And Institutions Are More Robust Today Than They Were During Emergency : Prashant Bhushan [Video]

It cannot be said that democracy and its institutions today are better and more robust than they were during the emergency, said activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan."The gains made in the last 40 years after emergency have been rapidly eroded by assault on institutions and rights, particularly in the last 6 years", Advocate Bhushan said.He was speaking on the topic "Stifling democracy...

SC Dismisses Review Petitions Against Judgment Decriminalizing Adultery [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has dismissed two review petitions filed against its judgment which decriminalized adultery by striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code.An organisation named All Religious Affinity Movement had filed one of the review petitions against the judgment. "We have carefully gone through the Review Petitions and the connected papers filed therewith. We do not find any...

SC Refuses To Entertain MP Judge's Plea Against Probe Report In Sexual Harassment Allegations; Asks Him To Move HC

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea challenging the report submitted by the Internal Committee inquiring into sexual harassment allegations against a Judicial Officer in the state of Madhya PradeshA bench of Justices Indira Banerjee & Surya Kant refused to entertain the plea which challenged the decision taken by the Internal Committee (IC) averring that the report was...

[Breaking] Decided To Cancel Class 10, 12 Exams : CBSE & CISCE Tell SC

The Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to cancel the exams of Class 10 and 12 scheduled from July 1 to 15 in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, said the Solicitor General in the Supreme Court on Thursday. CBSE will conduct examinations when conditions are conducive, the SG told a bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari & Sanjiv Khanna.The SG added that a scheme has...

Interim Orders In Writ Petitions Involving Contractual Matters Should Be Passed Only After Carefully Weighing Public Interest: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has reiterated that passing any interim orders in writ petitions involving contractual matters, the courts must carefully weigh conflicting public interests. In a writ petition filed in a matter relating to tender of warehouses, the Rajasthan High Court passed an interim order of status quo with a further direction that other formalities may proceed but the contract...

Plea In SC Seeks Direction For Providing Better Facilities To The Inmates In Child Care Institutions[Read Petition]

An Application seeking for directions to provide appropriate medical treatment and facilities to the girls who have been tested positive for COVID-19 in a shelter home in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has been filed before the Supreme Court in the matter regarding Exploitation of Children in Orphanages in State of Tamil Nadu.Filed by Amicus Curiae Aparna Bhat, the Application comes at the heels...

COVID19: [CA Examination] PIL In SC Seeks Stay On Opt-Out Scheme & Bats For Increasing Centres Across India

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking multiplicity of centre's for partaking CA examinations to be held on June 15 as well as a stay on the opt-out scheme enunciated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) amid the ongoing pandemic situation.The petition avers that the the notification issued by the ICAI on June 15 violates the fundamental rights of 4.67 students who...