Source – indiatimes.com WASHINGTON: The first big showdown at the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies is set for Wednesday when the justices hear a challenge to the lawfulness of his travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. The case represents a test of the limits of presidential power. Trump’s policy, announced in September, blocks

Source – sikh24.com NEW DELHI—A Supreme Court bench comprising justices SA Bodbe and LN Rao on April 20 asked a question to a petitioner that whether wearing a turban was necessary under the Sikh religion or just covering one’s head was enough. The bench was hearing a petition challenging a local cycling association’s rules that mandated

Source – Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, also known as Deepika Thusso, has refused to accept a honorary bar membership, which was accorded to her for pleading the heinous Kathua rape and murder case. The lawyer had been awarded the Honorary Membership by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Supreme Court Bar Association, Mirpur in Pakistan. “The

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: For possibly the first time since the collegium system was introduced, the Centre has unilaterally amended the recommendation of the judicial appointments body to apply its own writ, considered a violation of settled law and procedure. Last month, the Supreme Court collegium had recommended that Punjab and Haryana High Court additional judge

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court agreed with senior advocate Indira Jaising on Friday for a comprehensive relook into its earlier judgment diluting the stringency of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code that many believed was abused by some women to wreak vengeance on estranged husbands and in-laws. Taking into account instances of such abuse, a bench

Source – dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court overturned on Friday former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani’s 28-year jail sentence by a lower court in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case and acquitted her. The court gave Kodnani, called the kingpin of the killings, the benefit of doubt because charges against her could not be established. A division

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that the practice of female genital mutilation(FGM) is a “crime under existing laws”. Attorney General KK Venugopal asked a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar to “step in and issue directions” on the issue. “It is a crime punishable

Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court said on Friday that it was “very disturbed” by “unfortunate” public statements made by lawmakers on the issue of impeaching judges. “We are all very disturbed about it,” a bench comprising Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan told the counsel of a petitioner who sought to restrain legislators and gag

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) today ordered the Centre to seize wanted terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s properties. An SC bench headed by Justice R K Agrawal dismissed a plea filed by the underworld don’s family against the attachment of his properties in Mumbai. Last November, three south Mumbai properties belonging to the fugitive don

Source – dnaindia.com In an ongoing PIL that seeks Supreme Court’s directions for concrete action on harmful pesticides and their phasing out in India, in its last hearing a month ago, the Court directed the petitioners to make a representation to the “J S Sandhu Committee” within 15 days. The Court further ordered that ‘since the