New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it is not transferring to itself the Satya Niketan building collapse case being heard by the Delhi High Court as “things have started moving”. A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahdevan said it does not want to disturb the existing situation and the high court…
Ballia (UP): A local court here has awarded 25 years’ imprisonment to a 16-year-old boy after convicting him of raping a 14-year-old girl nearly two years ago, a police official said on Tuesday. According to the prosecution, the girl was alone at her home in a village under the Chitbaragaon police station area on August…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of Ittehad-e-Millat Council founder Maulana Tauqeer Raza, who has been jailed in connection with the 2025 Bareilly violence. In an order passed on Monday, Justice Ashutosh Srivastava observed that a slogan raised by Tauqeer Raza in his speech after the incident was nothing but a…
New Delhi: In a fresh salvo at Rajasthan High Court judge Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, the Supreme Court’s Justice Sandeep Mehta has sent a fourth letter to CJI Surya Kant, accusing Sharma of interfering in an internal judicial enquiry, breaching confidentiality and abusing administrative powers. Justice Mehta had earlier written three letters on August 2, 10…
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday highlighted the importance of the role of the judiciary in constructing coordinated bilateral cooperation and enhancing bilateral ties during the BRICS Chief Justices’ Forum. Speaking at the summit, he also proposed the building of a common platform for arbitration and mediation to tackle commercial disputes….
Pune: V D Savarkar never hated Muslims and his writings showed ways for their progress, but Congress MP Rahul Gandhi portrayed him as an “extreme hater of Muslims,” the Hindutva ideologue’s grandnephew Satyaki Savarkar has claimed in a Pune court. During the cross-examination in the special court on Tuesday, Gandhi’s lawyer Milind Pawar also submitted…
New Delhi: The Punjab government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a high court order directing it to release all pending dearness allowance and dearness relief dues to state employees and pensioners within a fortnight, contending that the direction to pay arrears totalling around Rs 14,191 crore in such a short period was constitutionally impossible….
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the West Bengal government to produce records pertaining to the interrogation of Sumit Roy, the personal assistant to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, after he alleged that the investigators barely questioned him about the alleged land-grabbing offence. Additionally, the top court extended Roy’s protection from arrest until…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass orders on a plea seeking prohibition on a protest march the Cockroach Janata Party has called on September 5, saying it expects everybody will act and behave in a peaceful and lawful manner. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed journalist and former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal’s plea seeking exemption from surrendering after he was convicted by the Bombay High Court and sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 2013 rape case. A bench of Justice Alok Aradhe dismissed Tejpal’s plea seeking exemption from surrendering. “The…
