Source:- indiatimes.com. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Election Commission’s response on a plea which sought striking down of a provision in election rules that envisages prosecution of an elector if a complaint alleging malfunctioning of EVMs and VVPATs cannot be proven. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and
Source:- livelaw.in. The Bombay High Court has held that once a decree of divorce has been granted, relief cannot be sought by the wife under the Domestic Violence Act. Justice MG Giratkar was hearing a criminal revision application filed by a 42-year-old woman from Nagpur who challenged a judgment of the Judicial Magistrate First Class
Source:- hindustantimes.com. The right to travel abroad is an important basic human right, the Supreme Court said, as it allowed an Indian Police Service officer to travel abroad, permission for which was denied to him due to a pending departmental enquiry. A bench of justices LN Rao and MR Shah also said the right extended to
Source:- hindustantimes.com The government had argued that the plea for review of the Rafale verdict was not maintainable as it was based on documents, which were covered under the Official Secrets Act. The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, in a unanimous decision, has held that it would consider the papers
Source .- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday said it will look into the order passed by the Madras High Court directing an interim ban on the video mobile application ‘TikTok’. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi sought urgent listing of the case. He said that the application had been downloaded on a major scale, has numerous
Source- thehindu.com The justice system in any democracy is set up, under the Constitution to serve the public without “fear or favour, affection or ill-will” as far as judges are concerned. Yet the protagonists, as far as India is concerned, in operating the system have stopped that very access — judges through lack of prescience, and
Source- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition seeking to send Muslims in India to Pakistan. The petition came up for hearing before the bench of Justices RF Nariman and Vineet Saran. “Do you really want to argue this? We will hear you but we will pass strictures against you.” Justice Nariman asked the petitioner’s
Source- wefornews.com The Centre on Wednesday told the court that documents related to Rafale that have appeared in the media and cited by petitioners seeking a recall of the December 14 ruling giving a clean chit to the government on the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets were privileged documents stolen from the Defence Ministry. Referring
Source- telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of the Centre and the Delhi government on a plea by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) for security and shelter for 12 inter-caste and inter-community couples allegedly facing threats of honour killing from their family members and vigilante squads. A bench Justices A.K. Sikri and
Source- telegraphindia.com The Narendra Modi government’s preferred trouble-shooter in the CBI was on Tuesday convicted of contempt by the Supreme Court for defying a transfer ban and sentenced to confinement in the court till it rose at 4 pm. Additional director M. Nageshwar Rao, now the virtual No. 2 in the CBI and twice chosen by
