Category: Supreme Court

‘No mask violates the right to life of others’, says Supreme Court

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com People not wearing masks in public spaces are violating the fundamental right to life of everyone else, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it implored all states to enforce the guidelines on wearing masks and social distancing scrupulously in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, the apex court stayed

US Supreme Court weighs Trump bid to bar illegal immigrants from census totals

Source:-https://www.wionews.com The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trump`s unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate U.S. House of Representatives districts to states. The challengers to Trumps July directive include various states led by New York, cities, counties and immigrant rights groups.

Supreme Court did not close even for a day during lockdown: CJI Bobde

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde on Thursday said that the Supreme Court did not shut down even for a single day during the lockdown period, underscoring the resilience shown by the judiciary in preserving the vibrancy of the Constitution through the pandemic. “During the lockdown, the Supreme Court did not lock down

Supreme Court stays gag order by Andhra Pradesh High Court on Amaravati land scam

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the gag order passed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in a matter related to the Amravati land scam case allegedly involving a former advocate general and two daughters of a senior apex court judge. A three judge bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan issued a

Franklin Templeton moves Supreme Court against High Court order

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund (FT) moved the Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a Karnataka high court order that said its decision to wind down six debt schemes in April required a simple majority consent from unitholders. In October, the high court had ordered that trustees should not take any action on the winding-up of

Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on plea challenging rejection of nomination papers to contest against PM Modi

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Tuesday its verdict on a plea by sacked BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur challenging the rejection of his nomination papers to contest 2019 Lok Sabha polls against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi constituency. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde had on November 18

Maratha community to send one lakh petitions to Supreme Court for vacation of stay on reservation

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com More than two months after a three-judge Supreme Court (SC) bench put an interim stay on the reservations for Marathas in government jobs and school admissions, the community members have started a movement to plead the top court for the vacation of the stay by sending 1 lakh postal petitions. The community has been

Supreme Court discourages use of Article 32 in scribe case

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court said on Monday it was trying to discourage the use of a provision that allows incarcerated people to directly approach the top court against violation of their fundamental rights as it felt that high courts were well-equipped to deal with such matters. In a case pertaining to Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan,

Trump calls 2020 election ‘fraud’, saying he’ll go to Supreme Court

Source:-https://www.nationalheraldindia.com Trump said that the 2020 presidential election was a “fraud being committed on the American public”, adding that he will go to the US Supreme Court to challenge Tuesday night’s outcome US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the 2020 presidential election was a “fraud being committed on the American public”, adding that