Source:- newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Come May and the empty Supreme Court corridors will be buzzing with IndiaтАЩs top lawyers arguing their cases as Chief Justice of India J S Khehar had made it clear all cases involving constitutional challenges would be heard on day-to-day basis in holidays. This year, summer vacations will begin from May
Source:- indiatimes.com New Delhi: Real estate tycoon Gopal Ansal moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking parity in sentence with elder brother Sushil Ansal in the Uphaar fire tragedy case, that is he does not want to undergo the remaining part of his one year sentence. Gopal and Sushil were let off last year by
Source:- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court today directed real estate firm Unitech to furnish a list of cases pending against it in various consumer fora and the amount involved in these matters. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra also asked the firm to give a list of persons who have got orders in their favour
Source:- indiatimes.com An association of women dancers, waitresses, singers and other performers working in bars and hotels in the state has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law prohibiting dances by women in these establishments. Though members of this association sniggered at being derogatorily referred to as ‘bar girls’,
Source:- intoday.in Three months from now, 37-year-old Sulekha (name changed) from Maharashtra will be forced to deliver a baby with serious brain disorders, thanks to India’s archaic abortion law. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court turned down her request to abort her 26-week old foetus afflicted with Down syndrome citing the 46-year-old Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Source:- indiatimes.com PANAJI: In a significant judgement that has a bearing on the procedure adopted by minority institutions in Goa in selecting principals for their schools, the Supreme Court has held that the institutions have to act fairly and in a transparent manner in matters of such appointments. The apex court delivered its verdict recently
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has granted pension to eight soldiers who were dismissed by the Army for an act of cowardice during a militant attack in 2003 on an EME battalion in Akhnoor of Jammu & Kashmir. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar partly allowed the Union government’s
Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI: ┬а“Nobody listens to our orders,” the Supreme Court observed today while refusing to accord urgent hearing to a plea seeking massive reforms in police force across the country. “Police reforms are going on and on. Nobody listens to our orders,” a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar lamented while
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi has told the Kerala government that the Supreme Court order banning liquor vends within 500 metres of state and national highways does not apply to bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. The AG’s view could apply to other states as well as the court imposed deadline to
Source:- intoday.in The ‘Bharatiya Bargirls Union’, an association of women dancers, waitresses, singers and other performers working in bars and hotels in Maharashtra, has challenged the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law putting conditions on dance performances. Saying the new Act “stigmatised their work”, the Bharatiya Bargirls Union has termed it arbitrary and violative
