New Delhi: In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said threatening any person to give false evidence is a cognizable offense and offered a clarification on the ambiguity of a provision inserted in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 2006 that led different high courts to give contradictory interpretations. A bench of Justices…
Bengaluru: The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday has stayed the state government’s order that required private organizations to seek permission before conducting activities in government premises. The order, seen as targeting RSS activities, has been put on hold by Justice Nagaprasanna’s single-judge bench, which issued an interim stay and posted the…
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday said that the Supreme Court verdict allowing the prospective implementation of MGNREGA in West Bengal from August 1 this year is a “supreme blow” to the Centre and a victory for the poor people of the state. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Centre’s plea challenging the…
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai has recommended Justice Surya Kant, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, as his successor. Chief Justice Gavai, in his recommendation, described Justice Kant as “suited and competent in all aspects to take the helm,” adding that both shared a similar social background marked by…
New Delhi: Observing that criminal law cannot be a tool to harass innocent citizens, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed several FIRS registered at Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh over the alleged offense of “mass religious conversions” of Hindus into Christianity. In a significant judgment on the invocation of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Tamil Nadu government to await the outcome of the Presidential Reference to decide its plea challenging Governor R N Ravi’s decision to refer the Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to the President instead of granting his assent. A bench of Chief…
New Delhi: In a setback to the Telangana government, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed its petition challenging a high court order that stayed a government order providing 42 per cent reservation to Backward Classes in local bodies. “You continue with your elections with the same reservation that existed. Dismissed,” a bench of justices Vikram…
New Delhi: Pushkaraj Sabharwal, father of deceased Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, and the Federation of Indian Pilots have moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored inquiry headed by a former apex court judge into the on June 12 crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people. On September 22, the top court…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted the sale and bursting of green crackers in Delhi-NCR for Diwali. Allowing the joint request of the Centre and Delhi government, a bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran relaxed the ban on green firecrackers. It asked the Central Pollution Control Boards…
New Delhi: Calling it lack of sensitivity and propriety, the Supreme Court on Monday criticized Justice N Senthilkumar of the Madras High Court for entertaining petitions on the Karur stampede at actor-politician Vijay’s rally and ordering an SIT probe. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and N V Anjaria said, surprisingly, the single judge…
