Our Judges Need To Show Some Backbone And Spine, Particularly In Dealing With Issues Of Personal Liberty: Justice Lokur

"A few recent judicial verdicts and administrative decisions seem to suggest that some of our judges need to show some backbone and spine, particularly in dealing with issues of personal liberty — no one can be thrown in jail without any effective remedy, and kept there because of information passed on to the judges in a sealed cover, or because there is no time (except perhaps to copy-paste), or because of misinformation, or because a person is safer in jail."

[SC LIVE UPDATES] Land Acquisition- Constitution Bench Hearing- [Court -3]

A Five Judge Constitution Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra begins hearing the matters relating to the interpretation of Section 24 of the new Land Acquisition Act.Read the Live-Updates from Court-3...

[LIVE UPDATES] Hearing Of Kashmir Petitions [Court-2]

The SC bench comprising Justices N V Ramana, Subhash Reddy and B R Gavai will hear the petitions challenging Kashmir lockdown.Reports of the hearing so far may be accessed here.Watch this space for live updates on today's...

Kashmir [Article 370] Hearing In SC [Petitions, Pleadings, Arguments, Orders And More]

Team LiveLaw has compiled the Petitions, Pleadings, Arguments, Interim Orders etc in the ongoing Kashmir [Article 370] Case before the Supreme Court here.[We will update this space every day to incorporate the new developments in the Case] [January 23] [Article 370] [Day-6] Conflict Between Two Judgments: SC Reserves Order On Reference To Seven Judge BenchLive-Tweets...

Private Counsel Engaged By Victim To Assist Public Prosecutor Cannot Make Oral Argument/Cross Examine Witnesses: SC [Read Judgment]

'Victim’s counsel has a limited right of assisting the prosecution, which may extend to suggesting questions to the Court or the prosecution, but not putting them by himself.'

PIL In SC Seeks ECI Action On Reports Of EVM Voter Data Discrepancies [Read Petition]

The NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has filed a PIL before the Supreme Court seeking to direct the Election Commission of India to probe into the reports about discrepancies in the number of votes polled and votes counted in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.The petitioner has submitted that ECI declared results on provisional figures and without determining the exact ballot count...

[Restrictions On Free Speech For Public Functionaries] SC Can Issue Vishakha Like Guidelines And Recommend A Legislation: Harish Salve

The Constitution Bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M R Shah and Ravindra Bhat on Wednesday heard Senior Advocate Harish Salve on the question whether persons holding public offices have more restrictions on Free SpeechThe case of Kaushal Kishore v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr stems from the Bulandshahar rape incident wherein a Minister of the...

Plea Seeking Population Control Measures Such as Two-Children Policy Filed In Supreme Court [Read Petition]

A special leave petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking directions to the Central Government to take apposite steps, including introduction of "Two Children Norm" as a criterion for government jobs, aids and subsidies, to control the growing population of India. In this regard, Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, who filed the petition submitted that the government had failed...

[SC LIVE-UPDATES] [Section 24- New Land Acquisition Act- Constitution Bench Hearing]

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INX Media : SC Issues Notice To ED On Chidambaram's Bail Plea

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Enforcement Directorate on the petition filed by former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram challenging the November 15 judgment of the Delhi High Court that had denied him bail in the INX media case.The bench comprising Justice Banumathi, Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy has posted the case next on November 26.Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal and Dr A...

[Sec 24 Land Acquisition] Proceedings Will Lapse Only When There Is No Possession 'And' No Payment; 'Or' To Be Read As 'And' : Centre Tells SC

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising of Justices Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M.R. Shah, and S. Ravindra Bhat on Tuesday continued the hearing on the second day on the matters relating to the interpretation of Section 24 of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013"Sub-section (2) (of...

Kashmir Situation Similar To Undeclared Emergency : Sr Adv Huzefa Ahmadi

A government can't completely restrict a citizen's right to protest and people must be allowed to disagree.