New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition which challenged the enactment of three new laws that seek to overhaul India’s penal codes. A vacation bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal allowed petitioner advocate Vishal Tiwari to withdraw the plea. The Lok Sabha, on December 21 last year, passed…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) resplonse by May 20 on former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren’s plea seeking interim bail in a money-laundering case for campaigning in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta also asked the federal agency to file a…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) cannot arrest an accused under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after a special court has taken cognisance of the complaint of money laundering. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said that when an…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and SVN Bhatti refused to extend the stay imposed by the Bombay High Court order on the bail granted to Navlakha in the case. It also directed Navlakha to pay…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of sexual harassment and other charges against former Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a case lodged by female wrestlers, observing there was “sufficient evidence” against him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Priyanka Rajpoot ordered framing of charges against…
New Delhi: In a major relief to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Supreme Court on Friday granted him interim bail till June 1 to campaign in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said Kejriwal, arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued a stay on Tuesday against the Calcutta High Court’s ruling that nullified the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff by the state’s School Service Commission (SSC) in both state-run and state-aided schools. While the apex court allowed the CBI to continue its investigation into the alleged scam, it…
Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court has declined to categorise the statement ‘go hang yourself’ as abetment of suicide. Justice M Nagaprasanna addressed the complexity of determining abetment of suicide in cases involving contentious statements. The recent ruling stemmed from a petition involving allegations of abetment of suicide against a man in connection with the death of…
New Delhi: A Hindu marriage is not an event for “song and dance”, “wining and dining” or a commercial transaction, the Supreme Court has observed and said it cannot be recognised in the “absence of a valid ceremony” under the Hindu Marriage Act. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih said…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to probe into the role of West Bengal government officials in a teacher recruitment scam. The top court was hearing a plea by the West Bengal government against a high court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and…
