Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses at the party’s 85th Plenary Session, in Atal Nagar-Nava Raipur on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Enacting a law named the ‘Rohith Vemula Act’ “to safeguard the right to education and dignity” for the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and minorities; creating a dedicated Ministry for … Read more
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the winter session of Parliament in New Delhi on December 15, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI The issue of vacancies and appointments in the higher judiciary will continue to arise until a new system is created, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha … Read more
Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju interacts with Chief Justice of India (CJI) D. Y. Chandrachud during a meeting in New Delhi on November 9. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: A major confrontation is on between the Union government and the Supreme Court over the former’s resentment towards the Collegium … Read more
The Supreme Court tells the Centre not to register fresh FIRs under Section 124A; government says it is re-examining the colonial provision The Supreme Court tells the Centre not to register fresh FIRs under Section 124A; government says it is re-examining the colonial provision An interim order putting on hold the contentious sedition law and … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said the interim bail to journalist Arnab Goswami and two others in an abetment to suicide case will continue till the Bombay High Court disposes of their plea, and stated that the judiciary should ensure criminal law does not become a weapon for selective harassment. The apex court … Read more
In the fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, when the child, who is too young and naïve to be afflicted by the pretence and hypocrisy that adult society accepts as the oxygen of survival, cries out that the emperor has no clothes on, the ruler has the grace to accept his mistake, don real … Read more
New Delhi: A day before the scheduled hearing on quantum of sentence, activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan who has been held guilty of criminal contempt for his two derogatory tweets, moved the Supreme Court seeking deferment of the proceedings till a review petition is filed and considered. The top court on August 14 held Bhushan guilty of … Read more