Lucknow: A Lucknow court on Tuesday granted bail to Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after he appeared in a defamation case filed over his purported remarks on Army personnel, his lawyer said. The case relates to alleged defamatory remarks against Indian soldiers made during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022, Gandhi’s counsel, advocate…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to July 18 the hearing on a plea of legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja seeking to transfer a copyright dispute involving over 500 of his musical compositions from the Bombay High Court to the Madras High Court. The plea was listed on Monday before a bench comprising Justices…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s decision to stay the release of the film ‘Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal tailor murder’, which was scheduled to hit the screens on July 11. After the counsel appearing for the producers sought urgent listing of the plea, saying…
New Delhi: Former chief justices of India, J S Khehar and D Y Chandrachud, are interacting on Friday with the parliamentary committee scrutinising the simultaneous election bill as it held its eighth sitting. Sources said both jurists are of the view that the concept of ‘one nation one election’ is not violative of the basic…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Election Commission of India on the timing of the Special Intensive Revision drive in poll-bound Bihar, saying it went to the “root of democracy and power to vote” while rejecting the argument that the poll panel did not have any power to carry it out. The…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s decision to undertake a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound Bihar. A partial working day (PWD) bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi was told by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on July 10 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Election Commission (EC) to undertake special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. Several fresh pleas including a joint petition by opposition parties leaders of Congress, NCP (Sharad Pawar), Shiv Sena (UBT),…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on July 10 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Election Commission to undertake special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. A partial working day (PWD) bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi took note of the submissions of a…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court administration has written to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, requesting immediate steps to vacate Bungalow number 5, Krishna Menon Marg- currently occupied by former Chief Justice of India, Justice DY Chandrachud. The letter, dated July 1 (Tuesday), highlights that both the standard post-retirement retention period and the extended…
Mumbai: Chief Justice of India Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai on Saturday said the interpretation of law or the Constitution has to be “pragmatic” and in a way that suits the needs of society. Speaking at a felicitation organised for him by the Bombay High Court here, he also mentioned that recently he had received complaints about…
