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Centre Moves Supreme Court Against Tripura HC Entertaining PIL Questioning Security Cover To Mukesh Ambani Family
The Central Government has approached the Supreme Court against a direction issued by the Tripura High Court seeking the production of files relating to the security cover given to billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani and his family in Mumbai.A vacation bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala agreed to list the matter tomorrow after an urgent mentioning was made by...
PIL In Bombay High Court Seeks To Direct Eknath Shinde To Return To Maharashtra To Resume Official Duties
A PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court alleging that Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Eknath Shinde and other rebel 38 Shiv Sena MLAs hare "neglecting" their official duties by camping in a hotel in Gauhati. The plea seeks directions to them to return to Maharashtra to resume official functions.The PIL was by one Utpal Baburao Chandawar and others and was mentioned before the bench CJ...
Maharashtra Political Crisis : Supreme Court Hearing |LIVE UPDATES
The Supreme Court will hear today the petitions filed by Eknath Shinde & rebel Shiv Sena MLAs seeking to restrain the disqualification proceedings initiated by Deputy Speaker against them.The petitions filed yesteday evening are listed before a vacation bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala.Follow this thread for...
BREAKING| Maharashtra Political Crisis : Supreme Court To Hear Tomorrow Eknath Shinde's Plea Against Disqualification Notices Issued To Rebel MLAs
The Maharashtra political crisis has reached the Supreme Court with the rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde filing a writ petition challenging the disqualification notices issued by the Deputy Speaker to rebel MLAs for proceedings under the tenth schedule of the Constitution over alleged defection.A vacation bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala will hear the...
500 Supreme Court LiveLaw Citations 2022 Part 3 (Citations 201 to 300)
Constitution of India, 1950; Article 32 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 482 - Writ Petition, under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, for the relief(s) prayed to quash and set aside the criminal proceedings/FIR ought not to have been filed - It is not expected that the relief which can be considered by the High Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to be considered...
Preventive Detention Can't Be Invoked For Ordinary Law & Order Situation : Supreme Court
Stressing that the preventive detention law "strikes hard on the freedom and liberty of an individual, and cannot be exercised in a routine manner", the Supreme Court has observed that "the powers to be exercised under this law are exceptional powers which have been given to the government for its exercise in an exceptional situation".The Court has once again highlighted the distinction...
By All Means, Let It Rain! Rain Is Welcome On The Entire Mediation Landscape, Not In Select Judicial Enclaves Questionably Acquired-A Response To Sr.Adv.K Kannan's Article
This is a response by Senior Advocate and Mediator Sriram Pancu to an article written by Senior Advocate and Mediator K Kannan which was published in LiveLaw on 22nd June under the headline "What The Dark Clouds Bring – Just Not Storm But Rain!"On 13th June 2022, the news portal The Wire carried my article titled "Thanks to Our Judges, Darkness Now Clouds India's Mediation Playing...
Citizens Should Work Tirelessly To Sustain Freedom, Liberty & Democracy Our Forefathers Fought For : CJI Ramana
After visiting the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, USA, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana spoke about the necessity of citizens working tirelessly to sustain and further the liberty, freedom and democracy which their forefathers fought for.In 1776, the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence at the Independence Hall. Eleven years later, in the same room, delegates...
Supreme Court Weekly Round Up :June 19- June 25,2022
Supreme Court Judgements 1. 'Estoppel Cannot Override Law' : Supreme Court Accepts Unsuccessful Candidates' Challenge To Selection Process Held Against Regulations Case Title : Krishna Rai (Dead) Through LRs versus The Banaras Hindu University & Others Citation : 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 553 The Supreme Court recently held that the principle of estoppel...
Roe v. Wade Overruled : What Does Indian Law Say On Abortion?
Intense debates are going on about the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America which held that there is no constitutional right to abortion by overruling the 50-year old land mark decision Roe v. Wade.Rights activists and prominent public figures including US President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former US President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bernie...
"Curtails Women's Status As Free & Equal Citizens" : SCOTUS Liberal Judges Dissent "With Sorrow" From Majority Decision Nullifying Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court of United States on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade wiping out the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. The Court in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.The controversial ruling which had been expected since May after new portal Politico published...
BREAKING| US Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade Ending 50 Years Of Federal Abortion Rights
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973. The Court in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. Friday's landmark ruling is in favour of the state of Mississippi in a highly controversial case- Dobbs...