Tag: Chief-Justice

AP high court orders discoms to clear arrears of Rs 1450 cr of renewable power producers.

Source – hindustantimes.com The Andhra Pradesh high court on Friday directed state-run power distribution companies to pay Rs 1,450 crore to solar and wind power producers towards arrears to be paid to them for the power supplied by them. A division bench of the high court comprising chief justice JK Maheshwari and justice Venkata Ramana

Bodies of 4 men killed in Telangana encounter to be kept for further probe: SC

Source – hindustantimes.com The bodies of the four men accused in the veterinary doctor’s rape and murder case, who were killed in an alleged encounter with the police at Chatanpalli village of Telangana’s Shadnagar town last week, will continue to remain in the morgue of the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for an indefinite period. The

Supreme Court to hear plea on Jamia violence today.

Source – hindustantimes.com Expressing his disapproval of “rioting and destruction of public property” , Chief Justice of India refuse to hear a case on the run-in between the police and students of Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia university and Aligarh’s Aligarh Muslim University till the “rioting” stopped. Students at both universities were at the receiving end

Trying to delay the inevitable, Centre to Supreme Court on Delhi gang-rape convict’s review petition.

Source – hindustantimes.com There were demands of showing no mercy to Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts awaiting death penalty in connection with the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, during the hearing on his review petition. The Solicitor General, opposing any leniency to Akshay, said, “There are crimes when humanity is put

Supreme Court notes delay in rape verdicts, ‘unrest’ among people.

Source – indianexpress.com Taking note of the widespread disenchantment over delay in deciding rape cases and other sexual offences, the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to take stock of effectiveness of the criminal justice system in responding to the situation and called for status reports from the Centre, state governments, Union Territories and various High

Supreme Court to hear plea on Jamia violence today.

Source – hindustantimes.com Expressing his disapproval of “rioting and destruction of public property” , Chief Justice of India refuse to hear a case on the run-in between the police and students of Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia university and Aligarh’s Aligarh Muslim University till the “rioting” stopped. Students at both universities were at the receiving end

Supreme Court refuses to stay Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, which fast-tracks citizenship by naturalisation process for “illegal” migrants from six religious communities, other than Muslims, who have fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde instead orally suggested

Didn’t Say Anything Against Secularism, Says Meghalaya HC Judge on Controversial Order.

Source – news18.com Shillong: Facing flak over his recent controversial order, Meghalaya High Court judge S R Sen on Friday issued a “clarification”, saying neither was his judgment politically motivated nor did he say anything against secularism, and asserted that his order had been “misinterpreted”. In the ‘clarification from the bench’ posted on the high court

Telangana State told to seek clarification on dead bodies of four accused.

Source – newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: As the Supreme Court stayed the the Telangana High Court’s proceedings on the Shadnagar ‘encounter’, a division bench of the high court on Thursday directed state Advocate General BS Prasad to immediately make a mention before the apex court seeking clarification on the bodies of the four accused, which are preserved at