Tag: Supreme-Court-of-India

I was just 19: Nirbhaya convict files curative petition in Supreme Court days before hanging.

Source – www.indiatoday.in Days after a court issued the death warrants against all four convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya Delhi gang-rape case, one of the convicts on Thursday filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court. Convict Vinay Sharma’s lawyer AP Singh said a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the death

Minority institutions’ appointments: Supreme Court to examine plea to stay January 6 ruling.

Source – thehindu.com Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde on Wednesday agreed to examine next week a plea to stay a Supreme Court January 6 judgment, which declared that the State is well within its rights to regulate the appointment of teachers to minority-run institutions in the “national interest”. The judgment, delivered by a Bench of Justices

‘Young Indian’ case: Supreme Court defers to March 17 final hearing of appeals filed by Sonia, Rahul.

Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to March 17 the final hearing of appeals filed by Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi against a Delhi High Court decision to allow the Income-Tax department to re-open their tax assessments for 2011-12 in the Young Indian case. A Bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Hrishikesh

NRC Updation Exercise: Supreme Court hearing today; stakeholders look for definite direction.

Source – sentinelassam.com GUWAHATI: With the Supreme Court going to have its hearing on the petitions filed on the updation exercise of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Monday, the stakeholders are looking forward for a definite direction from the apex Court. This is especially because several key issues concerning the citizens’ register still remain

P Chidambaram gets bail from Supreme Court, Karti Chidambaram tweets ‘Phew. At last’.

Source – hindustantimes.com Minutes after the Supreme Court granted bail to former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case, his son Karti Chidambaram took to Twitter to express relief. “Phew. At last after 106 days,” tweeted Karti, a member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district. A top court bench of justices R Banumathi, AS

Tripura’s royal scion forms apolitical front to fight for indigenous people.

Source – hindustantimes.com Almost three months after resigning from the Congress, the former chief of the party’s Tripura’s unit and the state’s royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Deb Barman announced an apolitical forum to work for the rights of the indigenous people. He announced it through social media. The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or TIPRA

Bodies of 4 men killed in Telangana encounter to be kept for further probe: SC

Source – hindustantimes.com The bodies of the four men accused in the veterinary doctor’s rape and murder case, who were killed in an alleged encounter with the police at Chatanpalli village of Telangana’s Shadnagar town last week, will continue to remain in the morgue of the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for an indefinite period. The

Supreme Court to hear plea on Jamia violence today.

Source – hindustantimes.com Expressing his disapproval of “rioting and destruction of public property” , Chief Justice of India refuse to hear a case on the run-in between the police and students of Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia university and Aligarh’s Aligarh Muslim University till the “rioting” stopped. Students at both universities were at the receiving end

Trying to delay the inevitable, Centre to Supreme Court on Delhi gang-rape convict’s review petition.

Source – hindustantimes.com There were demands of showing no mercy to Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts awaiting death penalty in connection with the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, during the hearing on his review petition. The Solicitor General, opposing any leniency to Akshay, said, “There are crimes when humanity is put