Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan. File | Photo Credit: PTI Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan on March 9 alleged that the death of J. Sidharth, a second-year student of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Pookode in Wayanad, illustrated the kind of ‘gundagiri’ (hooliganism) involving … Read more
The Supreme Court will hear on March 11 a plea against the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, key accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in which a BJP convoy led by Mishra mowed down farmers protesting the controversial farm laws. The petition seeking to have Mishra’s bail cancelled was mentioned on an urgent basis on … Read more
A city court has directed the Delhi police to probe afresh a 2011 case related to an audio CD allegedly containing a telephone conversation of former law minister Shanti Bhushan, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and the then SP leader Amar Singh. The court passed the direction on January 28, while dismissing a police … Read more
NEW DELHI: Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan, convicted and awarded one rupee fine for his contemptuous tweets against the judiciary, on Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking the right of appeal against convictions in original criminal contempt cases to be heard by a larger and a different bench. Bhushan on August 31 was directed to deposit the … 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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea to transfer the PM CARES Funds to the National Disaster Relief Fund. The court also rejected a plea for a fresh national plan to control Covid-19. A bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan though said the government would be free to transfer the funds to … Read more
Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who is facing contempt of court notices over his tweets against the Supreme Court and the CJI, on Monday said that the top court had played a “substantial role in allowing the destruction of our democracy” in recent years. It is a bona fide view that I can form, hold and express … Read more