New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to a plea by AIIMS seeking to set aside its order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, and asked the Centre to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks. The top court…
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday granted interim relief to former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and former Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao by restraining the State government from initiating action against them based on the PC Ghose Commission report on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. A division bench headed by Chief Justice…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the chief priest of the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple if the Constitution would not come to the rescue of a believer who is not allowed to touch the deity. The remark by the top court came after the chief priest said that when a devotee goes to a…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed activist Umar Khalid’s plea seeking a review of a verdict denying him bail, while observing that there are reasonable grounds to believe the allegations levelled against him in connection with a conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria also…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday refused to recuse herself from hearing the liquor-policy case as she rejected the pleas of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and others for her withdrawal. In the pronouncement that lasted for more than an hour, Justice Sharma said a litigant cannot be allowed to judge…
Prayagraj: In a significant development, a bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday recused itself from hearing a petition seeking registration of an FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The matter will now be placed before another bench, following appropriate orders from the Chief Justice. The recusal comes just two days after the same…
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Monday said it was shocking that well-educated people were getting duped in cases of digital arrests. The CJI, who was heading a bench which also comprised Justice Joymalya Bagchi, flagged the recent case of an old woman who was duped of her entire retirement benefits in…
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday ordered an FIR be filed against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in connection with an alleged dual citizenship controversy. The bench permitted the state government to hand over the probe to any central probe agency after registration of the FIR. A bench of Justice Subhash…
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal urged Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma on Thursday to take on record his additional affidavit claiming that the judge has a “direct conflict of interest” in continuing to hear the CBI’s petition against his discharge in the liquor-policy case. Justice Sharma directed the registry…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to issue a direction allowing people, whose pleas against the deletion of their names from electoral rolls during the SIR are pending in appellate tribunals, to vote in the upcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, which…
