The Allahabad High Court will hear on Thursday, a writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of The Uttar Pradesh Shri Bankey Bihari Ji Temple Trust Ordinance, 2025, promulgated by the Governor on May 26, 2025. The matter will be heard by the Division Bench of Justice Arindam Sinha and Justice Manjive Shukla. The plea has…
The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping his 10-year-old daughter. The Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Sandeep Mehta pulled up the petitioner for arguing that he had been falsely implicated because he had disapproved of his daughters’ romantic alliances. Terming the claim as completely ‘hollow,’ the top…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the criminal proceedings against YouTuber Elvish Yadav alias Siddharth, who was accused of organising rave parties where foreigners were invited and snake venom was used as a recreational drug. The Bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice NK Singh further sought response from the State of Uttar Pradesh on…
The Central government has notified the appointment of 53 judicial members to various Benches of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) across the country, including the Principal Bench in New Delhi. As per a notification issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel & Training Secretariat of the…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the Madras High Court verdict, which prohibited the use of names and photographs of former Chief Ministers, party leaders or living personalities, along with symbols and insignia of political parties, in government welfare schemes. The Bench of Chief Justice India BR Gavai, Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice…
A Special MP/MLA court in Chaibasa, Jharkhand on Wednesday granted bail to the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in connection with the alleged defamatory remarks made by him against Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a rally in 2018. Special Judge Supriya Rani Tigga granted bail to Gandhi after he personally…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to disclose details of 65 names recently dropped from the Bihar electoral rolls published on August 1, as part of an ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Appearing for the Association for…
The Uttarakhand High Court has struck down Clause 8 of a May 2020 Government Order, which denied ex-servicemen (Purva Sainik) the right to claim reservation benefits on the grounds that if an ex-serviceman got civil employment due to his status, he shall not be entitled to avail reservation benefits. The Division Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar…
The Uttarakhand High Court has stayed the conviction of a vaccine scientist in a suicide abetment case on the grounds that if he was not allowed to resume his research work, it may affect the interest of the nation. The single-judge Bench of Justice Ravindra Maithani observed that the scientist’s research work of vaccine development…
The Gujarat High Court has sentenced a lawyer to three months imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on him for levelling scandalous and false charges against judges and judicial officers of the High Court. The Division Bench of Justice AS Supehia and Justice RT Vachchani recently passed the order on a batch…