Source – dnaindia.com In an ongoing PIL that seeks Supreme Court’s directions for concrete action on harmful pesticides and their phasing out in India, in its last hearing a month ago, the Court directed the petitioners to make a representation to the “J S Sandhu Committee” within 15 days. The Court further ordered that ‘since the
Source – indianexpress.com The Ramdas Athawale-led Republican Party of India (RPI-A) has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against last month’s apex court ruling on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The petition, filed last week by RPI(A) under the name of its national vice-president and Supreme Court advocate
Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Thursday called pension laws of the country a “khichdi” of instructions, office memoranda, clarifications, corrigenda and so on and so forth. A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, in a judgment recommended the Department of Personnel and Training “to try and make life after retirement easier
Source: timesofindia India was among the 39 countries that voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty, saying every nation had the “sovereign right” to determine its own legal system. The non-binding resolution called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. It
Source: news18 The relationship between man and God is “very personal” and should be “nobody else’s business”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said on Sunday as he stressed on tolerance for peace in society. More lives have been lost in religious wars than due to political ideologies, Justice Thakur said during the release
Source: indianexpress Coming to the rescue of a Pakistani couple living in India, the Bombay High Court Monday directed the Centre not to take “any coercive step of deporting them from India”. According to the couple’s petition, they were required to leave India by November 18 as per an order issued by the Ministry of
Source:- scroll.in The ongoing case of a Yemeni student who has moved the Delhi High Court against his imminent deportation has put the spotlight on the issue of the precarious state of refugee rights in India. Despite hosting a large number of refugees and asylum seekers – 204,600 in 2011 – the country is neither
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Filling a PIL against President Pranab Mukherjee proved costly to petitioners with the Supreme Court on Monday barred them from filling any PIL in future in all courts saying that no litigant could be permitted to browbeat or malign the system and the high constitution functionaries. A bench of Justices Dipak
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
Source:- cardschat.com A poker club that was denied permission to operate in India will have its case heard by the Gujarat High Court later this month. AAA Gaming Pvt. Ltd. applied for permission to the Surat, India police commissioner in January to operate a club but was denied on the grounds that the game violated
