New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it would lay down the law to balance a citizen’s right to protest with another’s right to free movement. Dealing with a petition filed against the Shaheen Bagh protests, the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose and Krishna Murari said that the right to protest … Read more
Sept. 18, 2020 — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing jurist and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday. She was 87. The cause of death was metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from the court. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice … Read more
The Supreme Court is organising an interactive workshop on Tuesday to ensure overall wellness and to create awareness amongst its officers, Registry officials, advocates and litigants to enable them to deal with the strain, fear and anxieties induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The apex court, which on Monday issued a press note in this regard, … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Monday that no slum dwellers along the 140 km length of railway tracks in Delhi would be removed till a final decision is taken by the government. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that a final … Read more
NEW DELHI: Exonerated by more than one court, Tablighi Jamaat members from foreign countries, stuck in India for over six months, now have to go through what they describe as a “bureaucratic nightmare to get an exit permit”. Pending court cases caused by “double FIRs” and lookout notices issued against them by the home ministry … Read more
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said ”If we prevent the use of word “Coronil” during the pandemic on the ground that there is some pesticide on its name, it will be terrible for the first product.” (File photo: PTI) The Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a plea challenging the Madras … Read more
HYDERABAD: Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to provide relief to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh and declined to interfere with the stay orders issued by the Amaravati High Court on the three capitals row. This comes as a drawback to the Reddy government that has obtained the nod of the Governor … Read more
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