Category: Judiciary

Centre moves SC seeking 7-day deadline for hanging death row convicts

New Delhi, Jan 22: The Centre on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court for fixing a seven-day deadline for executing death penalty of condemned prisoners. The plea of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) assumes significance in view of the the death row convicts in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and […]

Plea filed in Delhi HC seeking contempt proceedings against ‘Chhapaak’ makers

New Delhi, Jan 22: A petition seeking contempt proceedings against the makers of Deepika Padukone-starrer film ‘Chhapaak’ was Wednesday filed in the Delhi High Court by an advocate who represented acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal on whose life the movie is based. Advocate Aparna Bhat approached the HC, saying […]

Supreme Court gives government more time to explain divisive citizenship law

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court declined calls to suspend the implementation of a new citizenship law on Wednesday, deciding that a constitutional bench of five judges was needed to hear all the challenges to legislation that critics say discriminates against Muslims. The court gave Prime Minister Narendra […]

Supreme Court rejects telecom firms’ plea for relief on government dues

NEW DELHI – India’s top court on Thursday rejected petitions by mobile operators including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea seeking a review of its order late last year that they must pay the bulk of nearly $13 billion in dues to government. The Supreme Court in October 2019 […]

Supreme Court confirms four men to hang for 2012 bus rape and murder

NEW DELHI – Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas for a review of the death sentence handed down to four men in the rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, leaving an appeal to the president as their only possible recourse. The 2012 […]

Shaheen Bagh protests: Police has power to control traffic in such areas, says HC

New Delhi, Jan 14: The Delhi High Court Tuesday said the police has the power to control traffic wherever protests are going on and directed it to look into a plea against restrictions on Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch which has been closed for a month due to agitations against […]

Nirbhaya case: SC dismisses curative petitions filed by two of four death row convicts

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the curative petitions filed by two of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. A 5-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana rejected the curative petitions filed by Vinay Sharma (26) and Mukesh Kumar (32). […]

SC asks J-K to review orders imposing curbs within a week, says access to Internet fundamental right

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to review within a week all orders imposing curbs in the Union Territory while holding that access to Internet is a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution A five-judge bench headed by […]

SC asks Nusli Wadia, Ratan Tata to resolve differences in defamation case

New Delhi, Jan 6: The Supreme Court Monday asked Bombay Dyeing chairman Nusli Wadia and Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, to sit together and resolve their differences in a defamation case. Wadia filed a criminal defamation case against Ratan Tata and other directors of Tata Sons in […]

J-K High Court quashes three PSA detention orders

Srinagar, Dec 27: Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday quashed the detention under controversial Public Safety Act (PSA) of three persons including a youth leader of PDP Justice Sanjeev Kumar quashed the three detention orders after hearing the counsels for the government and the detenues. The persons who […]

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