The Supreme Court on Tuesday assured the petitioners challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar that it would not let any mass exclusion take place during the draft list of voters currently being prepared by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya…
The Madras High Court has expressed its strong displeasure over a lawyer making communal allegations against a sitting High Court judge and television channels for raking in money by running such stories, stating that both should be taken head on. The Bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice K Rajasekar made these observations while hearing a…
The Kerala High Court on Monday disposed of a PIL previously filed by Nilambur MLA Aryadan Shouketh on the grounds that since the petitioner has been elected as a public representative, he would be in a better position to address the issues raised in the plea himself. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar…
The Supreme Court on Monday reprimanded Madhya Pradesh Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah for not issuing a proper apology in public over his remarks against Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, one of the Indian Army officers, who held media briefings during Operation Sindoor. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi expressed it’s strong resentment over…
By Kenneth Tiven Unquestionably, President Donald Trump believes he possesses political magic. But unlike Indian magician Jadugar Anand, he can’t make his friendship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein disappear. Yet just as Jadugar Anand could make an elephant vanish and return on stage, facts are reappearing in this made-for-TV political thriller. Trump has known…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg Reaffirming the primacy of the Right to Liberty, the Delhi High Court has held that the pendency of a criminal appeal before the Supreme Court does not bar prison authorities from considering requests for furlough or parole. In a significant ruling, the Court clarified that such pendency cannot automatically disqualify…
By Sujit Bhar On the surface, a recent Meghalaya High Court ruling may seem procedural—a mere directive allowing individuals to access government benefits through alternative identification, in case they are unable or unwilling to produce an Aadhaar number. However, sifting through the legalese of the interim order by Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice W…
By Dilip Bobb The dictionary defines “landmark” in the legal context as an event marking an important turning point. Last week’s ruling by a Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma certainly falls under that definition. On July 14, the bench set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s judgment that…
By Binny Yadav In a landmark ruling that may transform the relationship between corporate harm and criminal justice, the Supreme Court has held that companies qualify as “victims” under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and therefore have the right to independently file criminal appeals. The decision, delivered in a case involving Asian Paints Ltd.,…
Allahabad High Court Judge Justice Yashwant Varma has concealed his identity in his petition filed before the Supreme Court challenging the in-house inquiry committee’s report that indicted him over the alleged recovery of a huge sum of unaccounted cash from his official residence in Delhi. In the plea seeking urgent protection of his fundamental rights,…