Nagpur: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) not to hold the counting of votes for the first phase of local body polls on December 3, on the ground that the “disclosure of public mood” through the results might affect the subsequent phase of the elections. The results of…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to a man who was accused of cheating a businessman of Rs 3.9 crore by impersonating the nephew of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi noted that the accused, Ajay Kumar Nayyar, has undergone over four years…
New Delhi: Industrialist Anil Ambani has moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Bombay High Court, which upheld the State Bank of India’s (SBI) decision classifying his and Reliance Communications’ accounts as fraud. The matter is yet to be listed for hearing. The High Court had on October 3 dismissed Ambani’s plea challenging…
New Delhi: OTT platform Netflix on Thursday opposed in the Delhi High Court a plea by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede seeking an interim injunction on the series “The Ba***ds of Bollywood”, saying the show exposes Bollywood culture, satire, and dark comedy and can’t be enjoined in a defamation suit. Wankhede has sought that the series,…
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, while considering the possibility of shifting Supreme Court hearings to the virtual-only mode due to the severe air pollution, said he felt unwell when he went for an hour-long walk a day before. Kant said he would decide after consulting the bar, even as the idea of…
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”…
