Month: April 2018

Source – indianexpress.com Followers of a religion cannot insist that others should not “portray” or “paint” tenets of its texts as such portrayal is protected by the Constitution, the Supreme Court observed Monday. The remarks came from Justice D Y Chandrachud who was part of a three-judge bench which heard a plea to stop the

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supeme Court (SC) said today it has decided to examine, of its own accord, the Kathua gangrape-murder case + , and has also sent a notice to the Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir for preventing the filing of a chargesheet against the rape accused. The SC also took serious

Source – indiatimes.com ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government on the Unnao rape incident and questioned the delay in the arrest of accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The court will pronounce its verdict on Friday. It had on Wednesday treated a letter written by a senior advocate as a

Source – indiatoday.in The Calcutta High Court on Thursday suspended the panchayat election process in West Bengal till April 16. Hearing a petition filed by the Bengal unit of the BJP, Justice Subrata Talukdar issued a stay on the entire process of scrutiny and withdrawal of nomination papers underway across the state. The Court has also

Source – indianexpress.com The Ramdas Athawale-led Republican Party of India (RPI-A) has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against last month’s apex court ruling on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The petition, filed last week by RPI(A) under the name of its national vice-president and Supreme Court advocate

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebutted the Centre’s defense that collection of biometric details has not infringed the right to privacy of the citizens even if these were collected before the enactment of a law on Aadhaar in 2016. While the government referred to verdicts in two earlier cases relating to privacy and said

Source – bloombergquint.com The Supreme Court of India today ordered that a public notice inviting objections to sale of assets of Unitech Ltd. be issued, setting in motion the auction process. The public notice is aimed at ensuring that properties are unencumbered before the sale takes place. The order was passed by a three-judge bench headed

Source – indiatimes.com Kolkata, Apr 8 () Binani Industries has decided to move the Supreme Court with an appeal to redeem the pledge of its assets in debt ridden subsidiary Binani Cements Ltd from its lenders and will also submit 10 per cent of the offer to prove its commitment, a company official today said. “We

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to hear a petition related to deportation of Rohingya refugees who had fled the persecution in Myanmar last year. A top court bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, will hear the matter wherein the Centre has questioned the credentials of the

Source – dnaindia.com Supreme Court on Monday will hear the plea filed by a lawyer seeking SIT probe into the alleged Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case. Yesterday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued Non-Bailable Warrants (NBW) against celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle and business partner, Mehul Choksi, in connection with Punjab National