Source: telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has ruled that the personal liberty of an individual “has to be subordinated within reasonable bounds” to the larger good of the society, upholding the preventive detention of two persons accused of smuggling gold. The recent order came as the bench set aside a high court’s judgment quashing the detention
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate a judge of the Allahabad High Court as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. While returning the file of Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources
Source: news.yahoo.com NEW DELHI, July 19 (Reuters) – India said on Friday thousands of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh had produced false documents to become citizens in the far-eastern Indian state of Assam. The Supreme Court had ordered the citizenship tally for Assam following years of campaigns against immigrants from Bangladesh who ethnic Assamese
Source: outlookindia.com New Delhi, Jul 19 The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Executive Committee has expressed concern over CBI searches at the residence and offices of senior advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover. In a message sent by SCBA president Rakesh Kumar Khanna to its members, he said that there should not be any interference
Source: wefornews.com New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reconstitute a bench for hearing a matter related to extra-judicial killings in Manipur. The order from a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi came after senior advocate Collin Gonsalves told the court that the matter had not been heard since
Source: barandbench.com The Supreme Court reaffirmed that wilful conduct that drives a wife to commit suicide or demand for dowry, both could attract conviction under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Supreme Court observed, “Conviction under Section 498A IPC is for subjecting a woman to cruelty. Cruelty is explained as any wilful
Source: english.sakshi.com New Delhi: Seven of the nine recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium this year to appoint chief justices to nine high courts have been accepted while two names are under “various stages of processing”, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said up to July
Source: dailyexcelsior.com NEW DELHI, July 17: Seven of the nine recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium this year to appoint Chief Justices to nine High Courts have been accepted while two names are under “various stages of processing”, Lok Sabha was informed today.In a written reply, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said up to
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Seven of the nine recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium this year to appoint chief justices to nine high courts have been accepted while two names are under “various stages of processing,” Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said up to July 12,
Source: news18.com New Delhi: As thousands sit on top of an active volcano, an underground coal fire burning for more than 100 years in Jharia in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district has finally drawn the attention of the Supreme Court. Prioritising the case pending before it since 1997, the apex court has taken it upon itself to monitor
