Tag: Supreme Court

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Imagining cases without invoking printed pages is difficult, but CJI J S Khehar on Wednesday declared that in six to seven months there would be no need to file bulky paper-books as petitions and accompanying documents. He told lawyers in court room no.1 that the Supreme Court will pick case records

Source:- intoday.in The Supreme Court today sought a reply from the Election Commission over a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) can be tampered with. The top court has asked the central poll panel to file its reply over the PIL within four weeks. The plea sought examination of the

Source:- news18.com New Delhi: In a move that could have far reaching implications, the Supreme Court in a bid to resolve the Babri Masjid demolition case has ordered that petitions and annexing documents being filed in the case should be without bulky paper-books and SC would now electronically collect all trial court and High court

Source:- hindustantimes.com To find out why a Special Investigating Team (SIT), formed two years ago to probe anti-Sikh riots cases, has closed down a large number of cases, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Central government to submit records of 199 cases closed by the three-member team. The SIT, formed by the home ministry

Source:- thewire.in In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court  set aside Patna high court’s decision to grant anticipatory bail to an accused facing charges under Section 3(1) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC/ST Act) The case pertains to an incident in 2009 when some upper caste

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court upheld the life term awarded to three people for killing a Shiv Sena leader in Gujarat whose younger brother had married a woman from a minority community. A bench of justices PC Ghose and Ashok Bhushan said the homicidal death had been proven beyond all reasonable doubt with the recovery

Source:- asianage.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that every high court should ensure installation of CCTV cameras (without audio recording) inside courtrooms. This must be done in at least two districts in every state and Union Territory. A bench of Justices A.K. Goel and Uday Lalit said that the districts will be

Source:- telegraphindia.com New Delhi, March 27 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday made it clear that Aadhaar cards cannot be made mandatory by the government and its agencies for extending benefits of social welfare schemes. A bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and S.K. Kaul, however, said that government and its

Source:- dnaindia.com The Supreme Court on Monday denied permission to a Mumbai woman in the 27th week of her pregnancy to seek abortion. The woman is carrying a foetus that is detected with Type-2 Arnold-Chiari malformation, which involves structural damage to the brain. The 25-year-old is expecting her first child and comes from a low-economic

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court collegium refused to accept the proposal of the executive’s right to reject its recommendation for appointment of a judge on the ground of national security as the government refused to give the reasons for rejection in writing. Though the government is learnt to have held several rounds of