After AG Has “Difference Of Opinion”, SC Seeks Centre’s Affidavit In PIL...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today sought the stand of Centre on a PIL which sought complete autonomy for the Election Commission and altering the rules of removal of Election Commissioners....
View ArticleSC Agrees To Hear PIL To Link Aadhaar With Voter ID & Property Documents
Live Law News NetworkThe Supreme Court today agreed to hear after 4 weeks a PIL seeking a direction to Election Commission to implement ‘Aadhaar Based Election Voting System’, to curtail bogus votes...
View ArticlePlea For Re-opening Gandhi Murder Case: Petitioner Seeks Permission To File...
Prabhati Nayak MishraPetitioner Dr Pankaj Kumudchandra Phadnis, seeking re-opening of the case on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, has claimed before the Supreme Court that he has obtained...
View ArticleCentre Moves SC For Modification Of Direction On Tenure Of DGPs In ‘Prakash...
Mehal Jain & Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court, on Monday, contemplated the issue of notice to the States on an Application filed by the Centre demanding a modification of its earlier order in the...
View ArticleControversy Over ‘Oru Adaar Love’ Song ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’: Debutante...
Akanksha JainAmidst controversy and rage over a song titled ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ from the upcoming Malayalam movie Oru Adaar Love, 18-year-old Priya Prakash Varrier, who is making her debut with...
View ArticleSC Sentences 63-Yr-Old Woman To 3 Months In Jail For Contempt Arising Out Of...
Akanksha JainHolding a 63-year-old woman guilty of contempt for repeatedly disobeying the orders of the court against raising construction over a disputed plot of land despite giving an undertaking and...
View ArticleAdvocate Moves SC For Court-Monitored SIT Probe Into Nirav Modi-PNB Fraud
Akanksha JainDays after the lid blew off the Rs 11,400-crore billionaire Nirav Modi-PNB scam, a petition had been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the enormous...
View ArticleSupreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Ashok K.MService Of Summons Without Mentioning Therein Specific Day, Date, Year And Time Can’t Be Held As ‘Summons Duly Served’ The Supreme Court, in Auto Cars v Trimurti Cargo Movers Pvt Ltd &...
View ArticleJudge Loya Case Hearing-Four Judicial Officers Must Be Asked To File...
Mehal JainAs the hearing in the petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge Loya resumed on Monday before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY...
View ArticleState Govt. Can Take Over Private Schools Which Were Decided To Be Closed By...
Akanksha JainThe Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the Kerala Government's decision to take over three private aided schools under the Kerala Education Act, 1958. The Court held that the State decision...
View ArticlePNB Fraud: SC Agrees To Hear PIL Demanding Nirav Modi’s “Deportation” On...
Apoorva MandhaniSupreme Court of India has agreed to hear a petition filed by Advocate Vineet Danda seeking immediate deportation of Nirav Modi on Friday. This is the second petition filed before the...
View ArticleSC Agrees To Hear Priya Varrier’s Plea For Quashing Criminal Proceedings...
Mehal Jain The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday agreed the plea for urgent hearing of the writ petition filed by actress Priya Varrier and the director of the...
View ArticleSC Tells Centre To Clarify Stand On Permanent Commission For Fixing Salaries...
Prabhati Nayak MishraExpressing displeasure over the Central Government’s failure to make its stand clear to the proposition for a permanent commission which will fix the salaries and perks for the...
View ArticleBreaking: I Embraced Islam On My Choice & As Per My Conscience And Free Will,...
LiveLaw News NetworkHadiya has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court seeking the permission of the Court to live with Shafin Jahan as husband and wife. In the affidavit Hadiya has categorically...
View ArticleAadhaar Hearing [Day-11]: Aadhaar Act Lacks Legitimacy As It Validates Breach...
Mehal JainAs the hearing in the string of writ petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar (Targeted Deliveries of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act of 2016...
View ArticleBreaking: SC Stays Criminal Proceedings Against Priya Varrier In Relation To...
Mehal Jain The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Wednesday granted stay on all criminal proceedings against actress Priya...
View ArticlePNB Scam: AG Opposes PIL; SC Defers Hearing To March 16 Amidst High-Voltage...
Live Law News NetworkAs AG K K Venugopal submitted that FIRs have been lodged and probe was on in right earnest, bench hinted that for the time being it did not wish to intervene The Supreme Court...
View ArticleAadhaar Hearing [Day12 Session-1] Who Can Think Of Children Being Subjected...
Mehal JainOn Wednesday, Senior Counsel Gopal Subramanium resumed his submissions on behalf of the petitioners before the Supreme Court five-judge Constitutional bench in the string of writ petitions...
View Article‘Appellate Officer’ Under Public Premises (Eviction Of Unauthorized...
Ashok K.MThe Supreme Court, in Life Insurance Corporation of India v Nandini J Shah & Ors, has held that the appellate officer while exercising power under Section 9 of the Public Premises...
View ArticleSC Stays Madras HC’s ‘Moralistic’ Directions On Bar Council Elections Except...
Prabhati Nayak MishraObserving that the Madras High Court order is “moralistic”, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stayed the operation of high court’s February 16...
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