Supreme Court hears West Bengal MLA Sohandeb Chattopadhyay's plea seeking an expeditious decision by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on petitions for #disqualification of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress MPs who broke away from the party

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, J Joymalya Bagchi and J V Mohana.

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: 3 months will expire on 8th October. Same pattern (as Shiv Sena). You don't deal with disqualification...go to ECI, get an order...SAME PATTERN

CJI: We will dispose of observing that we are hopeful that Speaker will follow the law laid down in Kesham Meghachandra

Sibal: But someday your lordships may examine the pattern

J Bagchi: We should see the mirror before we issue directions. There are cases judiciary must decide expeditiously...We are gloriously in breach.

Keralam Power Crisis : State Urges Supreme Court To Urgently Hear Appeal Against APTEL Ruling

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Bombay High Court principal seat agrees to hear a writ petition highlighting various flaws in the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) going on in Maharashtra on Monday (October 5).

Advocate highlighted before a bench led by Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi that at least 2 crore 10 lakh voters are likely to be deleted from the State voter list. 

Bombay High Court's Kolhapur Bench refuses to grant "urgent hearing" to petitioners challenging the 14 orders passed by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in the past 10 months.

A division bench of Justice Sharmila Deshmukh & Neeraj Dhote said it will hear the matter on October 22. 

BREAKING | Rape Cases In Delhi-NCR Show Systematic Failure Of Police & Administration : Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Cognizance

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Counsel mentions #WestBengalSIR matter before #SupremeCourt for urgent hearing

Counsel: Date was showing as 29th...it has not come in the list. Now showing on 5th October. There's urgency as on 6th, bypolls in Rejinagar are there. If it could be listed before that. These people did not take part in first elections...thousands of appeals not decided

CJI: These are just bye-elections. We will hear on 5th October. Not to be deleted.

Supreme Court says says the recent reports of rape cases in Delhi-NCR ""starkly underline a systematic failure on the part of the law enforcement and the public administrative authorities to guarantee basic public safety"

Delhi Court issues notice to Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on appeal filed by women wrestlers challenging his acquittal in sexual harassment case.

#KeralaHighCourt has held that govt can invoke S.100 of the Patent Act to use the patent or invention for manufacturing medicine covered by the patent and sell the same to a person, including a needy patient on a non-commercial basis.

Justice Harisankar V. Menon delivered the verdict in a suo motu plea on exorbitant pricing of patented life-saving drugs.

MadrasHighCourt REJECTS an election petition filed by #DMK's Periakaruppan challenging the victory of #TVK's Seenivasa Sethupathy by one vote in Thiruppattur constituency.

Court allows Sethupathy's application to reject the election petition