Category: Supreme Court

Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will consider on Monday a policy submitted by the Delhi government to restrict the number of guests and wastage of food at social functions at motel and farmhouses in the capital. On July 1, the apex court had directed the AAP government to formulate a policy to curb extravagance in

Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Friday found a woman, who had left India to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS), guilty on counts of criminal conspiracy and association with a terrorist organisation with intention to further its activities. A Bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Indu Malhotra however disagreed with the

Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court, in a majority judgment of 2:1, confirmed the death sentence of a man for the gruesome rape of a 10-year-old child and the double murder of her and her seven-year-old brother in Coimbatore nine years ago. The majority decision of Justices Rohinton Nariman and Hemant Gupta on Thursday concluded that the convict, Manoharan,

Source: thehindu.com Against the backdrop of rising cases in the Supreme Court, the Union Cabinet on July 31 approved increasing the number of judges in the top court from the present 31 to 34, including the Chief Justice of India, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said. At present, the sanctioned strength of the apex court is 31. Once

Source: telegraphindia.com The Unnao rape victim’s family had approached the Supreme Court twice this year for help but the appeals appeared to have been sucked into bureaucratic quicksand. The rape victim and her mother had sent a joint letter to the Chief Justice of India on July 12, a little over a fortnight before a

Source: thehindu.com The Congress on Monday appealed to the Supreme Court to take notice of the suspicious accident involving the Unnao rape survivor, and urged it to take over investigations into the rape case. Protests from the Opposition members over the issue led to a brief adjournment in the Rajya Sabha. Six Congress members in

Source: ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court Thursday directed all states and Union Territories to comply within six weeks with its direction to provide medical facilities to retired chief justices and judges of high courts, their spouses and dependent family members at par with the sitting judges. The top court cautioned the states and the

Source: telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has ruled that the personal liberty of an individual “has to be subordinated within reasonable bounds” to the larger good of the society, upholding the preventive detention of two persons accused of smuggling gold. The recent order came as the bench set aside a high court’s judgment quashing the detention

Source:npr.org On the U.S. Supreme Court, where nine justices often disagree but try to meld their views into majority decisions, one justice stands out. Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the current court — and its only African American — has views that perhaps can be described only as unique. Some court watchers, however, use

Source: dnaindia.com The political crisis in Karnataka sparked a fresh confrontation between the Supreme Court and the Karnataka Assembly Speaker on Thursday. Upset with Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar for not meeting the 10 rebel Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) who resigned on July 6, the top court set a meeting