Source:- hindustantimes.com Depleting water flow makes it impossible to build the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, said Punjab in the Supreme Court on Thursday, reaffirming a stand that successive governments in the state have taken. Also, Punjab argued that a 2004 state law that terminated water-sharing agreements with its neighbours was never challenged or declared unconstitutional.
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today expressed grave concern over farmers’ suicide due to indebtedness and crop failure and said it felt the government was going in a “wrong direction” in tackling the real problem. Asking the Centre to apprise it of the policy roadmap to address the burning issue, a bench headed
Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to strike down the jail term of Delhi-based builder Gopal Ansal, who has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for a fire in south Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema that killed 59 people 20 years ago. A special bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi refused to alter its February verdict
Source:- indianexpress.com Divorce cannot be granted merely because a couple had some heated argument unless it is of recurring nature, the Supreme Court has said. The apex court said that isolated incidents of long past that have been compromised cannot constitute an act of cruelty and it is not a ground to grant divorce. A
Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI: Dhirubhai Ambani, who founded the Reliance conglomerate, deserved the Padma Vibhushan that was given to him posthumously last year, the Supreme Court said today. The award – India’s second-highest civilian honour -was received last year by Kokilaben, Mr Ambani’s wife, at Rashtrapati Bhavan. She was accompanied by both her billionaire sons
Source:- hindustantimes.com Right to speedy trial is a part of the fundamental right and an undertrial cannot be kept in jail for long, the SC ruled while directing trial courts to decide bails within a week of their filing. A bench headed by Justice AK Goel also fixed a two-week time frame for the high
Source:- indianexpress.com OUSTED Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam is set to take the legal battle against party leader V K Sasikala and current state Chief Minister E Palaniswami to the Supreme Court to challenge the proceedings of the legislative assembly last month when a confidence motion ended his chances of continuing at the helm.
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Leader of Congress Legislature Party in Goa, Chandrakant Kavlekar, on Monday night moved the Supreme Court challenging Governor Mridula Sinha’s decision to invite Manohar Parrikar-led BJP to form the government despite Congress being the largest party in the state after elections threw up a hung assembly. The petition filed through
Source:- indianexpress.com Violating a Supreme Court order asking him to pay Rs one lakh interim alimony to his estranged wife has proved costly for a man, with the Delhi High Court sending him to jail for two months. The high court held the man guilty of contempt of court while considering his “contumacious conduct” and
Source:- indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Motive, in a crime, need not be established when there is direct evidence, said the Supreme Court setting aside an order of the Madras high court to acquit five accused in an attempt to murder case. In the 1999 case, 13 out of 19 witnesses turned hostile, prompting a bench of Justice
