The Supreme Court of India has stayed the ongoing proceedings initiated by the Enforcement Directorate against Hemant Soren, granting interim relief to the Jharkhand Chief Minister in a money-laundering case linked to alleged land irregularities. A Bench of the apex court passed the order while hearing Soren’s Special Leave Petition challenging the decision of the…
The Supreme Court of India has reaffirmed that neither private individuals nor public officials can use speeches, artistic works, films, cartoons or other forms of expression to demean or stigmatise any community on the basis of religion, caste, language or region. The observations were made by a Bench led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, which stressed…
The Supreme Court of India has taken serious exception to content in a newly introduced Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which refers to corruption within the judiciary. The Court observed that it would not permit any attempt to tarnish or undermine the credibility of…
By Kenneth Tiven You know that real friends speak truth to power. Accepting that reality can be difficult, especially for someone who appears to have had no close friends or family in his entire life. Some of Donald Trump’s best friends in government—half the Republicans on the Supreme Court—warned him the only way they could: with…
The Allahabad High Court has reaffirmed that the right to choose one’s life partner is a fundamental constitutional right and clarified that the Uttar Pradesh law regulating religious conversions does not prohibit inter-faith relationships between adults. The judgment came while hearing a habeas corpus petition involving allegations that a couple in an inter-religious relationship had…
The Supreme Court of India has modified its earlier directions in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, permitting a broader group of judicial officers to handle the massive number of claims and objections pending in the exercise. A Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya…
Justice GR Swaminathan of the Madras High Court courted controversy yet again, when he said that the rationalists, who called people fools, incompetent and barbarians for treating spiritual gurus as equilvalent to God, were the real fools, incompetent and barbarians. Speaking in Tamil during the ‘Guru Vandanam Utsavam’ organised by the Hosur Satsangh at a…
The Supreme Court has disposed of a writ petition challenging the three-year moratorium on the establishment of new law colleges after the Bar Council of India (BCI) informed the Court that it had withdrawn the impugned notification. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta on Monday disposed of the petition filed by…
India Legal Bureau The Tamil Nadu government’s tabling of the Justice Kurian Joseph Committee report on Centre-state relations in the state assembly on February 19 has enjoyed headline space for its recommendations to cut down the powers enjoyed by the Governor and a greater states’ say in constitutional amendments, the report, however, goes further into…
The Supreme Court of India on Monday witnessed a sharp exchange between Chief Justice Surya Kant and Advocate Mathews Nedumpara during the mentioning of a matter related to judicial appointments. The advocate sought to raise a plea calling for reconsideration of the collegium system and revival of the National Judicial Appointments Commission. However, the Chief…