By Sanjay Raman Sinha The Supreme Court has taken a decisive step to address India’s student suicide crisis by ordering the formation of a National Task Force on Mental Health in higher education. This landmark decision follows the tragic deaths of two Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi students—Ayush Ashna and Anil Kumar—who were found…
The Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking review of its August 2, 2024 order, in which it refused to confiscate Rs 16,518 crore received by the political parties under the 2018 Electoral Bonds scheme. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra observed that it found…
The Supreme Court on Friday said that it would examine the new claim raised by the Hindu parties that the disputed structure was a protected monument under the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) and could not be used as a mosque. The Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV Sanjay…
The Delhi High Court on Friday imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shazia Ilmi for suppressing facts in her defamation suit against India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. Ilmi had filed the suit against Sardesai over his comments on X (formerly Twitter) related to a video recorded after she left…
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Kishanganj Congress MP Mohammad Jawed on Friday filed two separate petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was passed by both the Houses and is now awaiting presidential assent to become a law. Terming the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 as unconstitutional,…
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Friday rejected the petitions challenging the liquidation of Go First Airways. A coram of Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Technical Members Barun Mitra and Arun Baroka upheld the verdict delivered by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on May 10, 2023, on the grounds that it did…
The Allahabad High Court on Friday disposed of a petition filed by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, challenging a Lucknow court order summoning him as an accused in the Vinayak Damodar Savarkar defamation case. The single-judge Bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi orally ordered Gandhi to approach the Sessions court under Section…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution, seeking immediate judicial intervention to regulate and restrict the access to social media platforms for children below the age of 13 years. The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masiah expressed its disinclination to entertain the plea…
The Supreme Court has conferred senior designation on six former judges of five High Courts, who commenced practice after their retirement from the judiciary. The Apex Court conferred the senior gown on Ambadas Haribhau Joshi, former judge of the Bombay High Court; Chander Shekhar, former judge of the Delhi High Court; Cyril Thamarai Selvam, former…
Supreme Court judge JK Maheshwari said on Thursday that the level of faculty in the national law universities should be improved to uplift the state of legal education in the country along with their standards. Speaking at the Bharat Shiksha Summit 2025’s session on Legal Education and Training: Bridging Theory and Practice, Justice Maheshwari said practical…