In order to enhance its internal record-keeping, the Supreme Court has formulated a new set of guidelines for the preservation and disposal of non-judicial files. The guidelines 2025 establish specific timeframes for storage and elimination of different categories of Registry records, including office orders, institutional decisions, staff files, and financial documentation. The new policy would…
The Supreme Court on Thursday advised the couples involved in matrimonial disputes to go for mediation to reach an amicable separation. While referring a matrimonial dispute for mediation, the partial working days Bench of Justice KV Viswanathan and Justice NK Singh said mediation was not undertaken solely to reunite estranged couples. An amicable separation could…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three-month furlough to Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehalwan, convicted in the Nitish Katara murder case of 2002. The Bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice K Vinod Chandran passed the order on the grounds that Yadav remained behind the bars for 20 years without remission. The Apex Court directed that…
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by sacked Punjab DSP Gursher Singh Sandhu challenging the Section 41A CrPCnotices issued against him, in connection with the interview of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi conducted inside a Punjab jail. The order was passed on Tuesday by the Bench of Justice KV Viswanathan and Justice N Kotiswar Singh…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday initiated a judicial probe against the Ghaziabad District Jail authorities for failing to release an accused granted bail in April in a case of religious conversion. The Bench of Justice KV Viswanathan and Justice N Kotiswar Singh asked the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court to designate Principal District…
The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from deportation to an Assam-born woman, who was declared a foreigner by the Foreigner’s Tribunal under Section 2 (a) of the Foreigners Act, 1946. The Bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Vinod Chandran on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to neither deport petitioner Jaynab Bibi, nor take any…
The Delhi High Court has directed the authorities to lay down a new sewer line across AIIMS premises to tackle the problem of waterlogging in Green Park Extension and surrounding areas. The Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the order on a petition filed by one Shailendra…
In the aftermath of a major Air India crash in Ahmedabad that claimed more than 270 lives on June 12, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an interim suspension of the airline’s Boeing fleet. Filed by Advocate Ajay Bansal, the PIL sought grounding of the entire Boeing fleet…
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to bring back a woman who was recently deported to Pakistan. Following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which claimed 26 lives, the Centre had decided to suspend visa services to Pakistani nationals and directed them…
By Kenneth Tiven The US State Department has quietly instructed embassies and consulates to adopt stricter social media vetting for student visa applicants. Under this directive, officials must comb through online accounts for signs of “hostility towards the United States”—a subjective filter that many see as a crackdown on free expression. This policy currently targets…