Source: thehindu.com Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Friday informed the Supreme Court that the government will take a call on the appointment of Justice Akil Kureshi as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court in a week and place its decision before the apex court Collegium. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi
Source: hindustantimes.com Even though it is celebrated every year, the Independence Day is also marked with solemnity as India’s independence was not achieved on a platter, said Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi during his speech at the Independence day function of Supreme Court Bar Association in Delhi on Wednesday. Recognising the contribution of the freedom fighters,
Source: indiatoday.in he Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Friday the petitions posing legal challenges to the Centre’s decision to scrap provisions of Article 370 which abrogated special status to Jammu and Kashmir and subsequent measures putting restrictions on the working of media in the region. A special bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi
Source: moneycontrol.com The Supreme Court August 13 slapped cost of up to Rs 1 lakh on seven states for failing to file responses regarding setting up of human rights courts despite its January 2018 direction. The top court imposed cost of Rs 1 lakh each on Rajasthan and Uttarakhand while noting that neither have they
Source: livemint.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to direct the Central government to lift restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir and granted the Centre more time to withdraw the curbs as the situation is “very sensitive”. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra was hearing a petition filed by political activist Tehseen Poonawalla. The bench,
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, the fifth day of hearing in Ayodhya dispute case, Hindus submitted at the Supreme Court that a temple was destroyed and a mosque was built over it. Such an act couldn’t deprive the deity and the temple of the ownership of the place, they said. Though the Muslim parties
Source: dnaindia.com The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a whistleblower lawyer who blew the lid off a racket involving law interns appearing as lawyers in Bombay’s district courts and even getting accused released on forged sureties. After one of the affected interns lodged a molestation case against the lawyer as a counter-blast,
Source: deccanherald.com The Supreme Court has declined to consider a plea against the Karnataka High Court’s judgement that had quashed the Special Deputy Commissioner’s order confirming allotment of free sites to the homeless persons in Bengaluru on the basis of ‘hakku pathras’ issued in 1979. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari,
Source: tribuneindia.com Justice Udai Umesh Lalit of the Supreme Court on Saturday opined that legal literacy could make a difference by making people understand their rights and duties. “Empowerment comes from knowledge, which brings enlightenment to help people from deprived sections of society,” he said. He was addressing students during the state-level annual students legal
Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court has rejected a plea by farmers for ‘fair compensation’ for land acquired from them. It said the villagers came to court 21 years too late. A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M.R. Shah applied the Doctrine of Acquiescence on the farmers. Thus, once the agriculturists acquiesce to certain terms,
