Category: Supreme Court of India

Source – indiatoday.in The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday upheld an order by former Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar disqualifying 17 Karnataka MLAs in July. Though the top court upheld the disqualification of the MLAs from Congress and JD(S), the term of the disqualification was struck down. The order, therefore, allows all the

Source – forbes.com The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on President Trump’s revocation of “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA). DACA has spared nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation. Nearly forty percent of DACA recipients are currently enrolled in a k-12 school or college, but will face possible deportation if the Court rules in

Source – indiatoday.in With the President’s Rule now imposed in Maharashtra, the political battle is set to move to the Supreme Court as the Shiv Sena is likely to challenge the imposition of President’s Rule. Events unfolded rapidly on Tuesday as the Shiv Sena initially filed a plea before the apex court challenging Governor Bhagat

Source – Two intertwined contentions drove the Ramjanmabhoomi movement three decades ago. The first was religious: supporters claimed that the central dome of the Babri Masjid in the Uttar Pradesh town of Ayodhya marked the exact spot where the Hindu god Ram had been born. The mosque was built on the Ramjanmabhoomi or birthplace of

Source – sentinelassam.com NEW DELHI: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Ayodhya’s Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case on Saturday. The land dispute verdict was delivered by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud. * Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi,

Source – thewire.in New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Ayodhya matter has settled the ‘title suit’  in favour of the main Hindu plaintiff – essentially the Vishwa Hindu Parishad – but it is clear that there is much more at stake for the country than the ownership of 2.77 acres of land on which

Source – telegraphindia.com The Kerala High Court Advocates Association has urged the Chief Justice of India to decide either way on the issues raised by senior lawyer Dushyant Dave on cases involving the Adani group that were listed before the summer vacation benches of the Supreme Court. On August 16, in a letter to all

Source – indiatoday.in The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its verdict in Ayoyoda’s Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit on Saturday. The five-judge bench of the Supreme Court is likely to pronounce judgment at 10:30 am. A notice regarding the pronouncement of judgment by a Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, was uploaded

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Sunday constituted a judicial committee to conduct an enquiry within six weeks into Saturday’s violence between policemen and lawyers at the Tis Hazari Court complex. Retired Justice SP Garg will the head the committee. He will be assisted by Director (Intelligence Bureau), Director (Central Bureau of Investigation)

Source – khaleejtimes.com The Supreme Court of India convened on Monday after the Diwali break and now faces perhaps the most challenging two weeks in the nation’s 70 years of independent judicial history before incumbent Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi retires on November 17. In his place and perhaps absorbing the flak from the fallout of