NEW DELHI: (Nov 24) Justice Surya Kant, who has been part of several landmark verdicts, including on abrogation of Article 370 removing Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, took oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India on Monday. He succeeds Justice B.R. Gavai. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to Justice Kant at a brief…
New Delhi: Ten judges from the Scheduled Caste category, eleven from Other Backward Classes, and Backward Classes were appointed to different high courts of the country during Chief Justice of India BR Gavai’s tenure of around six months. Justice Gavai, who is the country’s first Buddhist and second Dalit CJI, headed the three-member collegium of…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and other states. A bench of Justices Surya Kant, SVN Bhatti, and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission on all the fresh petitions…
New Delhi: In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that timelines cannot be fixed for the governor and the President for giving assent to bills passed by state assemblies, and the judiciary cannot also grant deemed assent to them. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice BR Gavai unanimously held that…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has set aside the conviction of Mohammad Ilyas in the 1996 Modinagar-Ghaziabad bus bomb blast case on the ground that the prosecution failed to prove charges against the appellant. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Siddharth and Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra vacated the conviction, observing that the prosecution “miserably failed”…
Rampur (UP): Less than two months after he was released from Sitapur jail, SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan went back behind bars on Monday when a court convicted and sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment in a 2019 case related to obtaining two PAN cards using different dates of birth. The special MP-MLA court here…
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu. The petition, filed by P Shanmugam, Secretary of the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu State Committee, alleged that the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) move is “arbitrary, illegal,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea filed by radical preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh challenging his detention under the National Security Act. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria asked Singh to approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court with his plea. The top court…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday took note of the “alarming rise” in dog bite cases in institutional areas like educational centres and hospitals, and directed that such canines should be moved to designated shelters. A three-judge special bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and N V Anjaria passed a slew of directions…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the summons issued to TV journalist Arnab Goswami in a criminal defamation complaint filed by an advocate for allegedly making defamatory remarks on a news channel in 2016. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna also quashed the criminal complaint against Goswami and two former officials of the…
