In a move aimed at bringing in transparency, the Supreme Court has uploaded the complete process of appointing judges to High Courts and the Supreme Court on its website for the public’s awareness and knowledge. The proposals approved by the Supreme Court Collegium for appointments as High Court judges during the period between November 9,…
The Allahabad High Court on Monday disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a CBI probe into the alleged British citizenship of Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi. The Bench of Justice Attau Rehman Masoodi and Justice Rajeev Singh, however, granted liberty to petitioner andBJP leader S Vignesh…
The three-member committee of judges, which was constituted to conduct an in-house probe against Justice Yashwant Varma over the alleged recovery of cash from his official residence, has submitted its report to Chief Justice of India Sanijv Khanna. The Supreme Court issued a press note, stating that the three-member Committee, comprising Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief…
The Supreme Court on Monday listed for May 14, a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The matter came up for hearing today before the Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice PV Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan. After going through the counter and rejoinder,…
A Hindu organisation based in Kerala has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, on the grounds that threatened the very existence of the Muslim community in India. Filed by Sree Narayana Manava Dharmam Trust, which was established in 2023 to study the dissemination of values and teachings of…
By Col R. Hariharan Pakistani terrorists based in Pakistani-occupied part of Kashmir infiltrating across the Line of Control (LoC) and striking in Jammu and Kashmir is nothing new. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) database, in Jammu and Kashmir alone in the last 25 years, 22,418 people have been killed in 12,040 such…
By Dilip Bobb The timing is grimly symbolic. As India seeks global solidarity in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, another long-pursued figure of Pakistan-linked terror— Tahawwur Hussain Rana—was produced in a Patiala court, under tight security and NIA watch. His extradition from the United States, achieved after over a decade of legal and…
By Binny Yadav For 36 years, Bijender Singh waited. Waited not for charity, but for justice. As a young jawan serving in the extreme cold of Siachen, he developed a severe neurological condition that ended his military career far too soon. But what followed was worse: years of official denial, bureaucratic apathy, and legal battles—all…
By Sujit Bhar It has been a while since the Supreme Court declared that the right to privacy was a fundamental right. This landmark decision had been delivered on August 24, 2017, and had come off the Justice KS Puttaswamy (retd) vs Union of India case. The nine-judge top court bench, headed by the then…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by a woman, claiming to be a descendant of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and seeking possession of the Red Fort by virtue of her linage. Terming the petition as totally misconceived, the Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV…