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…
The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a strong rebuke to the Allahabad High Court, directing that Justice Prashant Kumar be removed from all criminal case assignments after he controversially allowed criminal proceedings in what was clearly a civil dispute. The top court called the decision a “travesty of justice” and expressed deep concern over the…
In a major win for environmental regulators, the Supreme Court has ruled that pollution control boards across the country have the legal authority to demand compensation and guarantees to prevent or remedy environmental harm — even if actual pollution hasn’t taken place yet. The verdict came in a case filed by the Delhi Pollution Control…
The Supreme Court will hear the petition seeking directions to the Central government to restore the statehood of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on August 8. The matter was mentioned by Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan before Chief Justice of India BR Gavai. The Counsel requested that the matter, listed for hearing on August…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Madras High Court ruling that restrained Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from sending OTP verification messages to the mobile numbers of persons under its ‘Oraniyil Tamil Nadu’ scheme running across Tamil Nadu. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar appreciated the High Court for…
Expressing serious displeasure over the mounting ecological crisis in Himachal Pradesh, the Support Court has issued notice to both the state government and the Central government, demanded urgent action from them. The Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan observed that if the current state of affairs continued, then the entire state of Himachal…