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Supreme Court To Hear Uddhav Thackeray's Plea Against ECI Decision Recognizing Shinde Sena After Article 370 Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally remarked that it will list the petition filed by Uddhav Thackeray challenging the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) which recognized Eknath Shinde faction as the official Shiv Sena after the Constitution Bench concluded the hearings in the petitions challenging the dilution of Article 370 of the Constitution of India. The court also...
Time Spent For PhD Can't Be Counted As 'Teaching Experience' If It's Not Done Along With Teaching Assignment Without Taking Leave : UGC Tells Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on the appeal filed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) against the order of the Kerala High Court that allowed the appointment of Priya Varghese as Associate Professor at Kannur University, treating the period spent by her to pursue her PhD to be counted as teaching experience. Priya Varghese is the wife of K.K. Ragesh, private secretary to...
Manipur Sexual Violence: Supreme Court Asks CBI To Refrain From Recording Statements Of Survivors
The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from taking statements of the survivors of the Manipur sexual violence case which was recorded in a horrific video that went viral on social media.A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud orally told the Solicitor General to ask the CBI to wait since the Court is scheduled to hear at 2 PM today the...
'Prison Not The Reform Centre As Claimed, It's Centre Of Sadism' : Prof.Anand Teltumbde [Interview]
Professor Anand Teltumbde fought for civil and labor rights while holding various managerial profiles during his illustrious corporate career and had only ever passed by a prison while commuting to work. “If a profile like mine could be tarnished over night as such an oxymoron as urban Naxal, then I thought nothing would be impossible in the world", he says months after his release on bail...
Centre Tables Bill To Amend Advocates Act, Seeks To Punish 'Touts'
The Central Government has tabled the Advocate ( Amendment) Bill, 2023 to amend Advocates Act, 1961, in the current monsoon session. It was listed in yesterday’s Business for introduction in Rajya Sabha but amid protest and disruption from opposition for Manipur violence, the house was adjourned for the day without taking any legislative matter.The major changes which the Bill seeks to...
Manipur Police Omitted Section 376(2)(g) IPC & SC/ST Act In Sexual Violence FIRs: Women Group Tell Supreme Court
In the batch of petitions concerning unprecedented sexual violence against women in Manipur amidst the ethnic clashes in the State, women centric citizens' network groups have filed intervention applications seeking for the formation of independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the violence under the supervision of the Supreme Court. The intervention applicants include Women...
'Strictly Follow Arnesh Kumar Guidelines On Arrest' : Supreme Court Directs High Courts & DGPs To Ensure Compliance
The Supreme Court of India on Monday reiterated the guidelines laid down by the top court for arrest under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and for other offences punishable by a maximum jail term of seven years in its 2014 Arnesh Kumar judgement. Not only this, a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar has also directed high courts and police chiefs to...
Rahul Gandhi Arrogant, Said He Will Never Apologize As He Wasn't A Savarkar : Complainant Tells Supreme Court Opposing Stay Of Conviction In Defamation Case
BJP MLA Purnesh Ishwarbhai Modi, the complainant who filed the criminal defamation case against Rahul Gandhi over his "why all thieves have Modi surname" remark, has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court opposing the stay of his conviction in the case.He stated that stay of conviction is granted in the "rarest of rare cases for exceptional reasons" and Gandhi's case doesn’t fall into...
'Manipur CM Admitted That There Are 100s Of Such Cases' : TMC MP Mahua Moitra Seeks Supreme Court-Monitored SIT Probe Into Manipur Sexual Violence
Mahua Moitra, who is serving as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Krishnanagar has sought to intervene in the batch of petitions concerning widespread sexual violence in the State of Manipur amidst the ethnic clashes. Through her application, Moitra has sought for an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) consisting of senior serving or retired police officers drawn from...
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Woman Lawyer's Plea Alleging Harassment By District Bar Association In Bengal’s Kakdwip
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea by a woman lawyer accusing a district bar association in West Bengal’s Kakdwip of arbitrarily terminating her membership and harassing her by, among other things, not allowing her to use the toilet and other facilities in the court premises. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Pankaj Mithal was hearing a special leave petition...
MP Opposition Leader Withdraws Plea In Supreme Court Against Issues Framed By HC In Challenge Against Jyotiraditya Scindia’s Rajya Sabha Election
Madhya Pradesh leader of opposition Govind Singh has withdrawn a petition filed in the Supreme Court over the validity of the election to the Rajya Sabha of union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia. Earlier this month, the top court had dismissed another plea questioning the issues framed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court in a petition challenging Scindia’s election to...
'Manipur Violence Is Of Unprecedented Magnitude' : Supreme Court On 'What About Bengal' Argument
In the Manipur case hearing on Monday, the Supreme Court disapproved of an attempt made by an intervenor to draw equivalence with crimes against women happening in other parts of the country. The Court highlighted that the violence in Manipur are of an "unprecedented magnitude", happening in the middle of "communal and sectarian strife".A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY...