NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took note of the Centre’s alleged inaction and asked it to clarify its stand within a week on the waiver of interest on interest for deferred payments of instalments for loans during the moratorium period announced due to the coronavirus lockdown. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan … 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: The Supreme Court Friday allowed devotees to offer Paryushan prayers in three Jain temples in Mumbai amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde however said that permission for Ganpati festival will have to be taken on a case-to-case basis from the Maharashtra Disaster Management Authority. The apex … 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
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea questioning setting up of a three-member judicial commission led by former apex court judge Justice B S Chauhan to inquire into the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that there were enough safeguards to ensure fair inquiry by … 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
MUMBAI: State Bank of India, representing creditors of Reliance Communications (RCom), has told the Supreme Court that spectrum is an “essential and integral” part of the telco’s assets and the insolvency process would fall apart if the right to use airwaves isn’t allowed to be transferred. Without any spectrum to use, the telco would cease … Read more
NEW DELHI: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said a robust online dispute resolution (ODR) ecosystem has the potential to ensure justice delivery in a cheaper, quicker and credible manner, which in turn can help in ease of doing business. Kant further said ODR is a fast-evolving dispute resolution mechanism that uses technology not … Read more
Ayodhya: Iqbal Ansari, one of the oldest Muslim litigants in the Ayodhya title dispute case, said he attended the groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday to honour the invitation sent by the Ram temple trust. “The Supreme Court had delivered its verdict on November 9. It’s been nine months and I am no longer fighting a case. … Read more
The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the pleas seeking removal of former high court judge, Justice (retd) Shashi Kant Agarwal and retired Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) K L Gupta, from the three-member inquiry commission set up to probe into the encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey. A bench headed by Chief Justice S … Read more