Category: Judiciary

SC allows Karti Chidambaram to travel abroad in May

New Delhi, May 7: The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed Karti Chidambaram, who is facing criminal cases being probed by the ED and CBI, to travel to the US, Germany and Spain this month.  A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said […]

SC denies report that two judges met Justice Bobde on inquiry into allegations against CJI

New Delhi, May 5: The Supreme Court Sunday termed as “wholly incorrect” a media report that said that justices RF Nariman and DY Chandrachud met Justice SA Bobde, who is heading the in-house committee inquiring into sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. A statement issued […]

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Court reserves order for May 13 on Swamy’s plea

New Delhi, May 4: A Delhi court on Saturday reserved its order for May 13 on Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking to be part of the trial in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Special judge Arun Bhardwaj passed the order after hearing all the […]

Tharoor summoned by Delhi court over ‘scorpion’ remark

New Delhi, Apr 27: A court here Saturday summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on June 7 on a complaint over his remarks that an unnamed RSS leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “a scorpion sitting on a Shivling”. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal was hearing a […]

Supreme Court considers call to open mosques to women

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider a petition from a Muslim couple to allow women into mosques, seeking to overturn a centuries-old practice that largely bars women from the places of worship. Women are not allowed inside most mosques in India although a […]

HC terminates BJP MLA’s election over defective nomination

Ahmedabad, Apr 12: The Gujarat High Court Friday invalidated the election of BJP MLA Pabubha Manek from Dwarka for submitting a defective nomination form. Manek’s victory from the Dwarka Assembly constituency in 2017 was challenged in the HC by his opponent and Congress candidate Meraman Ahir. Ahir, in his […]

Supreme Court to hear Dassault jet deal in setback for Modi

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will hear a request for an investigation into a $8.7 billion fighter jet deal with France’s Dassault Aviation, in a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. As India heads into a general election on Thursday, the court […]

Nobody for opaqueness, but judiciary can’t be destroyed in name of transparency: SC

New Delhi, Apr 4: Nobody wants a “system of opaqueness” but in the name of transparency the judiciary cannot be destroyed, the Supreme Court said Thursday, while hearing the appeals of its registry against the Delhi High Court order that the CJI’s office falls under the ambit of RTI […]

SC to hear plea to bar candidates from contesting from more than one seat

New Delhi, Mar 27: The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would hear after two weeks a plea which has sought to restrict a candidate from contesting from more than one constituency in a general election. The matter was mentioned for early listing of the plea before a bench of […]

SC not in favour of passing order at this stage to refer 10 pc quota issue to Constitution bench

New Delhi, Mar 11: The Supreme Court on Monday said it is not in favour of passing an order at this stage to refer the issue of 10 per cent quota for economically weaker sections across all classes to a Constitution bench. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan […]

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