Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court’s reiteration that Article 370 — that grants special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir — is essentially permanent and not a temporary statute may not affect any pending pleas, experts say. Currently, the top court is adjudicating on several petitions including those that challenge Article 35A that empowers
Source – indianexpress.com The Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday the Aadhaar Act was a “fair and reasonable” law and fulfilled the requirements laid down by the Constitution bench of the apex court in its landmark privacy judgment. Attorney General K K Venugopal told a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today refused to keep in abeyance its March 20 verdict while hearing a review petition filed by the Centre against the apex court’s order putting in place certain safeguards on arrests under the SC/ST Act. Notwithstanding the top court’s verdict, protesters continued with their agitation for the second
Source – news18.com New Delhi: In the face of stiff pressure from both within the NDA and opposition, Union Law Ministry filed a review petition in the Supreme Court on Monday on the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act verdict. The decision comes after some ruling party MPs and senior ministers in the government
Source – scroll.in Among the arguments that the Supreme Court relied on to invalidate talaq-e-biddat, or instant divorce, last year, was that the practice was considered unIslamic in even Muslim countries, many of which had abolished or reformed it. This method of referring to practices in Muslim countries will spring surprises on the court when it
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: In a bid to ensure speedy justice and discourage delaying tactics adopted by accused in procuring a lengthy stay on trial, particularly in corruption and criminal cases, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a stay on proceedings must not exceed six months. The SC ruled that lower courts could proceed
Source – hindustantimes.com The law ministry on Wednesday cleared the ground for the government to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the apex court’s decision to ban automatic arrests and registration of criminal cases for suspected offences against underprivileged communities. The law ministry’s advice came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a
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 – economictimes.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Banks are staring at an additional loan-loss provisioning of a few thousand crore rupees in the current quarter after the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain status quo on RCom’s sale of assets to Reliance Jio. The court will hear the plea of RCom’s lenders on April 5 and if the
Source – livemint.com New Delhi: The state is using Aadhaar as an “enabler of the citizens’ right to life including their right to food, livelihood, pension and other social assistance benefits”, the centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. In its opening argument in support of the 12-digit unique identification number, attorney general K.K. Venugopal said the
