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…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider setting up a special bench to hear the Centre’s plea seeking clarification on the applicability of its March 11 judgement on OBC creamy-layer criteria to candidates of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2025. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) seeks directions allowing the government…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea by Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee seeking an expeditious decision by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on petitions seeking disqualification of 20 rebel party MPs who have aligned themselves with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI). A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the state government on a plea seeking an independent, time-bound probe by the CBI into alleged malpractices in the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Preliminary Examination. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana sought a response…
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday said enormous growth that nations are expected to sustain cannot solely arrive by the luck of geography and underlined the need for “Nyaya-nomics”, or the economics of justice, to ensure a level playing field through consistent adjudication. Addressing the 11th BRICS+ Legal Forum here, the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday sent former minister Satyendar Jain and four others to judicial custody until September 3 in a corruption case involving the Delhi Jal Board. Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh sent Jain, former Delhi Jal Board CEO Udit Prakash Rai, and private persons Nagendra Yadav, Raja Kumar Kurra and Pankaj…
Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed that rebel TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee will continue as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly till a single bench decides on a petition challenging his appointment to the post within two months. The division bench comprising Justices Shampa Sarkar and…
Kochi: The deputy director of the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Monday told the Kerala High Court that permission cannot be granted to shoot a film starring actor Mohanlal, saying that judicial and government orders prohibit shooting commercial movies or television serials within wildlife sanctuaries, national parks or tiger reserves. The submission was made in response…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a separate plea of the Nirmohi Akhara seeking a direction to the Centre to reconstitute the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which manages the affairs of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, as a “public trust”. The Nirmohi Akhara, an ancient Ramanandi Hindu monastic order…
