Supreme Court orders States/UTs to provide copy of verdicts on remission to convicts soon after passing of judgment The Supreme Court has ordered all State governments and Union Territories to ensure that as soon as the court decided on whether to grant remission (premature release from prison) to a convict, a copy of the decision…
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted interim bail till October 2 to Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, a Member of Parliament from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency, to campaign for Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. The order was passed by Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Chander Jit Singh…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of the encroachment of forests in Uttarakhand. The petition is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item dated 22.08.2024. As per the article, a total of 104.54 square kilometres of forest in 39 forest divisions of the State is occupied by encroachers. The…
The Allahabad High Court has set aside summons issued in a case pending in the court of ACJM Moradabad on the charges of cheating and extortion. A single-judge bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery passed this order while hearing an application under section 482 filed by Surendra Kumar Katyal. Sushil Kumar Tiwari, counsel for applicant, submitted that…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Union Territory of Chandigarh administration to fill up vacancies in the cadres of Deputy District Attorney and Assistant District Attorney in a time-bound manner. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Anil Kshetarpal disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) raising deficiencies in the cadres…
The Gauhati High Court issued notice on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the conferring of forest rights to the people of seven villages falling under Namdapha National Park under the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. The PIL has been field by the petitioner, claims to be aggrieved…
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest of Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Yasar Shah in the case of his posting a fake post regarding police recruitment paper leak on X (formerly Twitter). The Division Bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi heard a petition filed by…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the trial court proceedings initiated against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a defamation case filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajiv Babbar over his derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Bench of Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice R Mahadevan also issued notice to Babbar as well as…
The appointment of six Senior Advocates as Additional Solicitors General (ASGs) to represent it before the Supreme Court was notified by the Central Government The six Senior Advocates who have been appointed by the Supreme Court are 1.Archana Pathak Dave 2. S Dwarakanath; 3.Satya Darshi Sanjay 4.Brijender Chahar 5. Rajkumar Bhaskar Thakare 6. Raghavendra P…
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Allahabad High Court verdict that directed redrawing of the recruitment list of candidates to fill up 69,000 vacancies of Assistant Teachers in Uttar Pradesh. The Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra issued notice in the matter and asked the…