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…
Taking serious note of a message widely circulated on social media linking a member of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s family to a medical lobby in West Bengal, ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on the rape and murder case of a doctor in Kolkata, the Supreme Court Registry has filed a complaint with…
Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court order of August 29, which refused to quash defamation proceedings over his ‘scorpion on Shivling’ remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tharoor sought urgent hearing on the matter on the grounds that if his…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking directions from the Central government to halt the export of arms and military equipment to Israel during its ongoing military operations in Gaza. The Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra observed that it was beyond the Court’s…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Survey of India , to submit the report showing the position of forest cover in India with specific reference to Northeast from the year 2000 onwards with each five years interval covering the period upto March, 2024. The Bench of Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Justice Arun…