The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Union government to file a short status report on Section 103(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which introduced mob lynching as a specific offence, punishable by death or life imprisonment. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh issued the directions on a public…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed Wikipedia to take down the alleged defamatory statements made on its page about news agency Asian News International (ANI). The single-judge Bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad passed the interim order on an application moved by the ANI, which had earlier filed a suit accusing Wikimedia Foundation, the parent…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday relegated the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Hindu Religious Endowments laws implemented by three states and one Union Territory, to their respective High Courts. The batch of petitions, including a writ petition filed by Swami Dayananda Saraswati and others in 2012, challenged the constitutional validity of the Tamil Nadu…
Supreme Court judge and the Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC) Justice Surya Kant has laid out his vision for bringing about a robust system, where a prisoner is given all information about his/her right to legal services once he comes to prison. The SCLSC chairman also stated that prisoners should be…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a writ petition filed by Member of Parliament Mahua Moitra, seeking directions to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to mandate public disclosure norms for Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs). The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, however,…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the State of Uttar Pradesh for carrying out ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘inhuman’ demolition drives in the Prayagraj district, without following the due procedure of law. The Bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan granted Rs 10 lakh compensation to the homeowners and further castigated the state government…
A Delhi court on Tuesday directed the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against BJP leader and Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra over his alleged role in the riots that rocked the North-Eastern areas of Delhi in 2020. After perusing the material on record, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia of the Rouse Avenue Courts…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition challenging the Allahabad High Court order directing the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to whitewash the exterior walls of Shahi Jama Masjid, situated in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar passed the order on a…
Members of the Allahabad High Court Bar Association (AHCBA) on Tuesday resumed judicial work, after suspending their agitation against the transfer of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma to the Allahabad High Court. On March 29, the AHCBA passed a resolution, stating that the strike was suspended till the completion of an in-house inquiry…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the Gujarat government’s decision to revamp the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad at an estimated cost of Rs 1,200 crore. The Bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Rajesh Bindal dismissed the Special Leave Petition filed by Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, challenging the Gujarat High…