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'Court Can't Compel Any State To Adopt National Education Policy' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Implement NEP In Tamil Nadu
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by a person seeking to direct the State of Tamil Nadu to implement the National Education Policy (2020) including its 'three-language formula'.A bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan observed that the Court cannot issue any direction under Article 32 of the Constitution to compel any State to...
'Not Court's Duty To Tell Media To Delete' : Supreme Court Sets Aside Delhi HC Order To Remove Wikipedia Page About ANI's Case
The Supreme Court on Friday (May 9) set aside the Delhi High Court order, which directed the deletion of a Wikipedia page on defamation proceedings initiated by news agency Asian News International (ANI) against Wikimedia on the ground that the page was prima facie contemptuous and amounted to interference in court proceedingsA bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan reiterated...
Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Chief Secretaries Of Delhi, UP, Haryana, Rajasthan Over Non- Filling Of PCB Vacancies
The Supreme Court has issued contempt notices to the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan for breach of its order to fill all vacancies in their respective Pollution Control Boards (PCBs) and Pollution Control Committees by April 30, 2025.The Court observed that these states had committed a wilful breach of its earlier order dated August 27, 2024 directing that...
Why CJI Sanjiv Khanna Sent Inquiry Report On Justice Yashwant Varma To President & PM - Understanding In-House Procedure
Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna, today forwarded the report submitted by a three-judge panel, which held the in-house inquiry against Justice Yashwant Varma in relation to the alleged discovery of unauthorised currency notes at his official residence, to the President of India and the Prime Minister. While there is no information about the findings of the report, the fact that the CJI...
Valid District Survey Report Essential For Environment Clearance; Draft Or Lapsed DSR Can't Be Basis For EC : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today (May 8) struck down the Uttar Pradesh government's e-auction notice for sand mining leases which cited reliance on an expired 2017 District Survey Report (DSR), which lapsed in 2022, and a draft 2023 DSR that had not yet been finalized. The Court held that, under the Environment Protection Act, 1986 and the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notifications, a valid...
Attempts To Spread Communal Hatred & Indulge In Hate Speech Must Be Dealt With Iron Hand : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that attempts to spread communal hatred and indulge in hate speech must be dealt with an iron hand. It asserted that hate speech cannot be tolerated."Any attempt to cause alienation or humiliation of the targeted group is a criminal offence and must be dealt with accordingly," the Court said.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice...
