New Delhi, Apr 13 The Supreme Court today asked a lawyer to bring materials on record to take judicial note of a strike call given by Kathua and Jammu and Kashmir bar associations in relation to the gangrape and killing of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu region. A bench headed […]
New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) If you just have to identify the citizens, what is the need to centralise and aggregate their personal data under the Aadhaar scheme, the Supreme Court asked the Centre today. The Centre, in turn, urged a five judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak […]
New Delhi, Mar 15 The Supreme Court today asked a Gujarat trial court not to proceed till April 12 with the criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah against the news portal The Wire and its journalists. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak […]
New Delhi, Mar 14 The Supreme Court today rejected all interim pleas seeking to intervene as parties in the sensitive Babri masjid- Ram temple land dispute case. A special bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S A Najeeb accepted the contention that only original parties […]
Amravati, Mar 10 Stressing that nobody was above the law, Supreme Court judge Justice Sharad Bobde today exhorted the judges and lawyers to work in tandem to meet the hopes and aspirations of people. He was speaking while inaugurating a new six-storey building of Amravati District and Sessions Court here. […]
New Delhi, Mar 9 A person, suffering from terminal illness, has a right to refuse medical treatment to avoid “protracted physical suffering”, the Supreme Court today said. The important observation came in a landmark verdict of a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra which recognised the […]
New Delhi, Mar 9 The Delhi High Court today granted interim protection from arrest to Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, till March 20 in the INX Media money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Justice S Ravindra Bhat also made it clear that in […]
New Delhi, Mar 4 The vehicles of India’s top constitutional authorities — the President, the Vice President, Governors and Lieutenant Governors — will soon have to display their registration numbers. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in its affidavit filed before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal […]
New Delhi, Feb 16 Former Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi today lamented that the Supreme Court is “shirking responsibility” by sending cases of fundamental rights to high courts, and hoped that the apex court will use its powers to prevent the violation of the basic rights. Noting […]
Jammu, Feb 9 The Jammu and Kashmir law department has warned senior government lawyers of disciplinary action, including cancellation of appointment, for their non-apperance in courts to represent the state government. In a circular, law department secretary Abdul Majid Bhat said the government has taken a serious note of […]
