Tag: Supreme-Court-of-India

17 Karnataka MLAs Stay Disqualified, But Can Contest Polls: Supreme Court

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker’s decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till 2023. “In a parliamentary

Karnataka: Supreme Court upholds disqualification of 17 rebel MLAs, can contest bypolls.

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

No, the Supreme Court did not uphold the claim that Babri Masjid was built by demolishing a temple.

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

Five Judges of Supreme Court who Delivered the Ayodhya Verdict.

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,

What the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya Judgment Means for the Future of the Republic.

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