Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Refusing to stay the new jallikattu law passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly, the Supreme Court however slammed the state government today for not following the law and order during the massive protests earlier this month to revive the bull-taming sport. Asking the AIADMK government to reply to its notice within six weeks,
Source:- hindustantimes.com Justice J Chelameswar, a member of the Supreme Court collegium that clears appointments to the higher judiciary, has questioned its decision not to elevate “the highly competent” Justice KM Joseph to the top court. Justice Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was on the collegium’s shortlist last year. But his
Source:- indianexpress.com In a move to end fake mobile phone users, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to put in place within a year an effective mechanism to scrutinise the details of identity of over 100 crore existing and future mobile telephone consumers. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice
Source:- financialexpress.com The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar recommended 9 names to the government to take over as Chief justices of High Courts. This was a break from the earlier tradition of appointing acting chiefs for months at a time. If the government approves of the recommendations and
Source:- ibtimes.co.in At least 34 pubs and bars in the swanky DLF CyberHub in Gurugram could be forced to stop selling liquor, thanks to the Supreme Court’s order that sale of liquor must not be allowed within 500 metres of national and state highways. The order will be in place from April 1, 2017. It
Source:- financialexpress.com The Jammu and Kashmir state government has recently sacked its standing counsel in the top court for refusing to file a review petition to dispute a Supreme Court’s recently passed verdict. Some time back the Supreme Court has said that Jammu and Kashmir has no vestige of sovereignty outside the Constitution of India.
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a woman’s brother could neither be part of his sister’s matrimonial family nor claim right over property inherited by his sister from her husband. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi ordered Durga Prasad, who had claimed to be part of the family
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The law ministry has cleared the files for appointment of five Supreme Court judges and forwarded them to the Prime Minister’s Office which will shortly take the President’s assent before they are notified, likely to be done within the next week. The SC currently has 23 judges. With the fresh appointments
Source:- indianexpress.com MAINTAINING THAT the State does not have unbridled powers to provide promotion in reservation to the backward classes, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that an exercise to determine inadequacy of representation, backwardness and overall efficiency is “a must” before granting promotion to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes employees. A bench of Justices
Source:- scoopwhoop.com Days after being slapped with a contempt notice from the Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court Justice C S Karnan has written a strongly worded letter to Chief Justice of India stating that his case should be sent to the Parliament. He’s contended that the case is “not sustainable”. He has also played the Dalit
