Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI: The office of the Attorney General of India (AGI) does not come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act as it is not a “public authority”, the Delhi High Court ruled today. The verdict by a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath came on
Source:- hindustantimes.com Justice J Chelameswar, a member of the Supreme Court collegium that clears appointments to the higher judiciary, has questioned its decision not to elevate “the highly competent” Justice KM Joseph to the top court. Justice Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was on the collegium’s shortlist last year. But his
Family of Kashmiri on Death Row Hopes for Relief Source:- benarnews.org Relatives of an alleged militant from Indian Kashmir said Monday they would appeal a death sentence and verdict handed to him last month by a court in West Bengal state. Muzaffar Ahmad Rather – a 27-year-old from Kulgam district in south Kashmir – was
Source:- indianexpress.com In a move to end fake mobile phone users, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to put in place within a year an effective mechanism to scrutinise the details of identity of over 100 crore existing and future mobile telephone consumers. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice
Source:- indianexpress.com A MAJORITY of those who had responded to its questionnaire on a uniform civil code, including many Muslims organisations, have opposed spontaneous triple talaq, Law Commission chairperson Justice B S Chauhan has said. The commission is currently examining the more than 40,000 responses it has received to the questionnaire issued in October 2016.
Source:- financialexpress.com The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar recommended 9 names to the government to take over as Chief justices of High Courts. This was a break from the earlier tradition of appointing acting chiefs for months at a time. If the government approves of the recommendations and
Source:- indiatimes.com KOCHI: An educated woman engaging in sex multiple times with a person who has promised to marry her can only be treated as consensual and not rape, says the Kerala high court. Even an uneducated woman cannot be cheated more than once or twice on the promise of marriage, the court said while
Source:- ibtimes.co.in At least 34 pubs and bars in the swanky DLF CyberHub in Gurugram could be forced to stop selling liquor, thanks to the Supreme Court’s order that sale of liquor must not be allowed within 500 metres of national and state highways. The order will be in place from April 1, 2017. It
Source:- indianexpress.com FOR THE first time, the Supreme Court has initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against a high court judge for writing letters, levelling allegations of corruption against several sitting and retired apex court and high court judges. The unprecedented move will see the seven senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice
Source:- bbc.com After the infamous 2012 gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi, the number of rape cases reported to police in India rose sharply. But one survey concluded that in Delhi, in 2013-14, more than half of these reports were “false” – fuelling claims by male activists that women are alleging
