Source – indianexpress.com Senior Advocate Harish Salve Friday requested the Supreme Court to treat the Ayodhya title suit as a “property dispute” underlining that the country had moved away from the events of 1992 when the Babri Masjid was brought down by Kar Sevaks. “This country has moved far away from the events of 1992
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Within an hour of becoming only the seventh woman judge of Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Indu Malhotra witnessed an acrimonious display of lung power by three women lawyers in a case seeking a CBI probe into the Kathua rape and murder case and transfer of trial outside the J&K town. The bench that also included CJI Dipak Misra
Source – indiatimes.com After filing a writ petition in the Supreme Court to quash Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises sexual acts “against the order of nature”, following which the Apex Court issued a notice to the Centre seeking its response within a week, hotelier Keshav Suri is hopeful that the battle against the law will end in the LGBTQI community’s favour. He
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today upheld the Delhi high court verdict acquitting JMM supremo Shibu Soren in connection with the murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994. A bench of Justices A K Goel and R F Nariman refused to interfere with the Aug 22, 2007, verdict of the high court which had set aside
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said its priority was to ensure fair and speedy trial in the rape-and-murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and examine whether the trial needed to be transferred out of the town. Two weeks ago, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and
Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday is slated to resume hearing the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid land dispute case. The apex court is hearing 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgment of the Allahabad High Court that mandated a three-way division of the disputed site in Ayodhya. The top court earlier dismissed all 32 intervention
Source – indiatimes.com WASHINGTON: The first big showdown at the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies is set for Wednesday when the justices hear a challenge to the lawfulness of his travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. The case represents a test of the limits of presidential power. Trump’s policy, announced in September, blocks
Source – sikh24.com NEW DELHI—A Supreme Court bench comprising justices SA Bodbe and LN Rao on April 20 asked a question to a petitioner that whether wearing a turban was necessary under the Sikh religion or just covering one’s head was enough. The bench was hearing a petition challenging a local cycling association’s rules that mandated
Source – Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, also known as Deepika Thusso, has refused to accept a honorary bar membership, which was accorded to her for pleading the heinous Kathua rape and murder case. The lawyer had been awarded the Honorary Membership by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court Bar Association, Mirpur in Pakistan. “The
Source – theprint.in New Delhi: For possibly the first time since the collegium system was introduced, the Centre has unilaterally amended the recommendation of the judicial appointments body to apply its own writ, considered a violation of settled law and procedure. Last month, the Supreme Court collegium had recommended that Punjab and Haryana High Court additional judge