New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday paved way for Class 10 SSLC Board examinations to be conducted in Karnataka as scheduled, from June 25 to July 4. A Bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Krishna Murari and S. Ravindra Bhat dismissed a plea challenging a Karnataka High Court Order, which had refused to intervene in…
Social distancing is duty, not discretion during pandemic: SC
April 7, 2020New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) has institutionalised video-conferencing during lockdown period and said every individual and institution must implement measures designed by Health Authorities and Governments to reduce the spread of COVID-19. While providing modalities for use of video-conferencing facilities for hearing of urgent cases and even recording of evidence, a bench of CJI…
Coronavirus: SC takes suo moto cognisance of overcrowding in Jails
March 17, 2020Apex Court seeks reply of Director-General, Prison and Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories by Mar. 20 regarding precautionary measures taken in Jails across India New Delhi: A Two-Judge Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde and L.N. Rao issued a notice to the Director-General, Prison and Chief Secretaries of all…
Nirbhaya convicts set to hang on Mar. 20
March 6, 2020Supreme Court to step in if convicts are not hanged on the set date New Delhi: A City Court, yesterday, set Mar. 20 as the date for executing the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. The Court noted there was no legal bar, but rather an obligation to set the…
SC dismisses Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta’s curative petition
March 2, 2020New Delhi: A Five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court has this morning rejected the curative petition filed by Delhi gang rape convict Pawan Kumar Gupta. The SC was hearing ‘in chamber’ the curative plea of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case —…
Congress protests against SC judgement on reservation
February 15, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As part of a State-wide stir, over 200 Congress workers, led by former Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, staged a demonstration urging the Centre to file a review petition against the recent Supreme Court verdict which said that ‘reservation in job promotion is not a fundamental right,’ at Gandhi Square here this morning. Addressing the…
Former MP calls for review of Supreme Court ruling on reservation in promotions
February 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Former Congress MP R. Dhruvanarayan has urged the Centre to file a review petition against the recent Supreme Court ruling that reservation in promotions is not a fundamental right. Addressing a press meet at Congress Bhavan here yesterday, Dhruvanarayan said that the SC order on reservation in promotions was shocking. The Prime Minister should…
Upload details of criminal cases against candidates: Apex Court
February 13, 2020Supreme Court asks political parties to list reasons for giving tickets to tainted candidates New Delhi: Exercising its Constitutional powers, the Supreme Court (SC) this morning put political parties on a tight leash and made mandatory for all political parties to give reasons for putting up candidates with criminal antecedents in General and Assembly polls….
Reservation is a fundamental right: Former Judge
February 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Former High Court Judge H.N. Nagamohan Das has said that reservation is a fundamental right, while the Supreme Court ruling is not in accordance with the ideals of the Constitution. The former judge was speaking after inaugurating a public hearing organised in Kalamandira in city yesterday. Nagamohan Das heads a one-man Commission to look…
SC rejects Nirbhaya convict Mukesh’s petition challenging rejection of mercy plea: Mukesh claims he was sexually assaulted in Tihar Jail
January 29, 2020New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning dismissed the plea of Nirbhaya case death row convict Mukesh Singh against the rejection of mercy petition by the President, saying all relevant records, the verdict of courts were placed by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) before Ram Nath Kovind. Dismissing the petition of 2012 Delhi gangrape convict…
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