Supreme Court asks Election Commission to prepare framework within a week to curb criminalisation of politics New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) told the Supreme Court that the direction asking poll candidates to declare their criminal antecedents in the media has not helped curb criminalisation of politics, and said political parties should be…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning made it clear that it will not grant any stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) without hearing the Centre and said it may refer pleas challenging the validity of the Act to a larger Constitution Bench. A Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde is hearing a batch…
New Delhi: A five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of India will hear the curative pleas filed by two of the four convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case on Jan. 14. This Bench will consider the petitions filed by convicts Mukesh and Vinay Kumar in chambers. All of the four remaining convicts are…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today confirmed the death sentence of one of the four convicts in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of a young para-medical student, who came to be known as ‘Nirbhaya.’ The convict had questioned the woman’s dying declaration and argued in Court that he deserved mercy as the “pressure to…
New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who was first arrested by the CBI on Aug. 21 and later by Enforcement Directorate in the money-laundering case will walk out of jail after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the INX Media money laundering case today. The former Union Minister has spent 105 days in…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday extended the judicial custody of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, who has been arrested in connection with INX media case, to Dec.11. Chidambaram had appealed the SC against a Delhi High Court decision denying him a regular bail in the ED charge of money laundering slapped against him in…
New Delhi: Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde took oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India (CJI) this morning. President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath of office at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Bobde succeeds Justice Ranjan Gogoi who retired yesterday. Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former…
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) yesterday announced that it was in favour of seeking a review of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Ayodhya case and added that it was against accepting the five-acre alternative land given for a Mosque. “The land of the Mosque belongs to Allah and…
Don’t copy-paste arguments from Chidambaram case: Court to ED New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging the Delhi High Court order granting bail to Karnataka Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar (DKS) in money-laundering case. Taking up the petition this morning, the SC Bench, comprising Justices R.F. Nariman and…
Court cautions Rahul Gandhi, lets him off with warning in Rafale contempt case Sabarimala verdict: Apex Court refers petitions to larger Seven-Judge Bench New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning dismissed a batch of review petitions seeking a Court-monitored probe into the procurement of 36 high-performance and most advanced Rafale fighter jets by the Narendra…
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