NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Friday its detailed reasoning for granting interim bail to journalist Arnab Goswami and two others in the 2018 abetment to suicide case. On November 11, the top court had granted interim bail to Goswami saying it will be ‘travesty of justice’ if personal liberty is … Read more
New Delhi: Maharashtra is the fifth state to withdraw general consent for CBI operations within its territory, a move that came in the backdrop of the central agency taking over a Lucknow police FIR to investigate alleged TRP manipulations by TV channels when Mumbai police was already probing the matter. The move comes amidst the … Read more
The Supreme Court Thursday said the Allahabad High Court be allowed to monitor the Hathras case in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died of injuries. The top court, which was hearing a PIL and several intervention pleas of activists and lawyers, was told that no fair trial was possible in Uttar … Read more
The Uttar Pradesh government informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a “three-fold protection mechanism” has been put in place for security of the victim’s family members and witnesses in the Hathras case in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died due to injuries. The state government, which earlier said that probe … 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
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), on Friday, informed the Supreme Court that compartment examinations for students of class X and XII would be held by the end of September. The Apex Court has directed CBSE to file an affidavit, by September 10, detailing the schedule of the compartment exams. Also, on … Read more
There should not be a further delay in appointing members of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), the Supreme Court has said, asking the Centre to complete the process soon. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and S Ravindra Bhat made the observation while extending the term of an NCDRC member … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked for speeding up the process of filling up vacancies in the National Green Tribunal to address the “piquant situation” created due to reduced working strength of the green panel. A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna requested the Selection Committee to expedite the … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre to “start at the earliest” the work for installation of smog tower at Anand Vihar in east Delhi, which is aimed at helping in combating air pollution. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that setting up of the … Read more
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Income Tax (IT) department to refund Rs 833 crore to Vodafone Idea (VIL), giving some relief to the cash strapped telco burdened under thousands of crores of statutory dues and boosting its shares. “We do not see any reason to interfere in the matter. The special leave petition … Read more