Nainital: In the ongoing dispute regarding the future of the Ganga aarti held at the Triveni Ghat in Rishikesh, the Uttarakhand High Court permitted the Shri Ganga Sabha to continue performing the ritual, subject to certain conditions. The vacation bench of Justice Ashish Nainthani delivered this decision on Friday, taking into account the public interest…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court verdict disqualifying senior leader Mukul Roy as an MLA of the West Bengal Assembly after he defected to the TMC from the BJP. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stayed the November 13, 2025 order of the high…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday slammed a petitioner for filing a plea under Article 32, which gives citizens the right to seek constitutional remedies from the top court over violation of fundamental rights, despite a petition pending before the Bombay High Court. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said…
New Dei: In a major setback to the TMC-led West Bengal government, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the cases registered by the State against officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over allegations of theft during the central agency’s raids at the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC earlier this month. The court observed that…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday disposed of the TMC’s petition praying for protection of its data, saying the ED has informed that it has not seized anything from I-PAC director Pratik Jain’s office and home during its raids last week. TMC had moved the court seeking an order for preservation of personal and…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the constitutional validity of a 2018 provision of the anti-graft law, which mandates prior sanction for initiating a probe against a government servant in a corruption case. While Justice BV Nagarathna said Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act is unconstitutional and…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said proper and complete disclosure in applications for government employment was not a simple procedural formality, but a basic requirement rooted in fairness, integrity and public trust. The observations came from a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh, which allowed an appeal filed by the…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Karnataka government and the state election body to hold the long-pending polls for Bengaluru local body by June 30. The tenure of the earlier elected body for Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) expired on September 10, 2020, and since then a government-appointed administrator has been taking…
Guwahati: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday laid the foundation stone for an integrated Judicial Court Complex in North Guwahati in Assam’s Kamrup district, amid protests by the Gauhati High Court Bar Association. A new complex of the Gauhati High Court-which serves as the high court for Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland–…
New Delhi: The West Bengal government has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court seeking that no order should be passed without hearing it in connection with the Enforcement Directorate raids against political consultancy firm I-PAC. A caveat is filed by a litigant in the high courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that no…
