Right To Establish Educational Institution A Fundamental Right Under Article 19(1)(g), Can't Be Restricted By Executive Instruction : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, held that the right to establish an educational institution is a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India and reasonable restrictions on such a right can be imposed only by a law and not by an execution instruction."The right to establish an educational institution is a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g) of...

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising Requests CJI To Live-Stream Constitution Bench Hearings

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has written a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of India U. U. Lalit and his companion judges urging that the proceedings being held before the Constitution Benches in the Supreme Court be live streamed, as it is a part of the fundamental right of every citizen to have freedom of information.Jaising in her letter expressed that issues of great...

Set Up More Fast Track Courts: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Writes To High Court Chief Justices

Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju has written a letter to the Chief Justices of the High Courts based upon a review of the status of functioning of the existing Fast Track Courts and Fast Track Special Courts set up under Centrally Sponsored Scheme for expeditious trial of Rape and POCSO Act cases. The letter so written shared concerns over the "ever increasing pendency of...

Courts Today- A Daily Round Up Of Important Legal Developments-15.9.22

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EWS Quota Case: 103rd Amendment Changes Constitution's Identity - Lawyers Argue In Supreme Court [Day 3]

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench, comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala, on Wednesday, continued hearings on the cases challenging the constitutional validity of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. The report on Advocate Shadan Farasat and Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan's submissions...

Counsel Disagree On Whom The Onus Of Proof Rests, SC Says, 'We Can't Leave a Man In Limbo Without a Date Of Birth' In Abdullah Azam Khan's Case

A Division Bench of the Supreme Court of India on Thursday continued to hear the challenge against a decision of the Allahabad High Court to disqualify Rampur MLA Mohd. Abdullah Azam Khan for allegedly not having attained the age of 25 years on the date of the election as prescribed in Article 173(b) of the Constitution. In 2019, the Allahabad High Court struck a major blow to Khan's...

Supreme Court Registry Scraps Over 13,000 Pre-2014 Cases With Uncured Defects, Oldest One Dates Back To 1987

The Supreme Court Registry by an order scrapped 13,147 unregistered but diarized cases having been registered prior to the year 2014. The cases were registered more than 8 years ago before 19th August 2014. It was also clarified that the cases were sent for rectification after being diarized but no response had been received. It was noticed that one of the oldest diary numbers related back as...

EWS Quota Unconstitutional For Including Only The Poor Among Forward Class: Shadan Farast To Supreme Court [Day 3]

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench, comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala, on Wednesday, continued hearings on the cases challenging the constitutional validity of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. 103rd Amendment violates the Equality Code by Excluding Backward Classes: Adv Shadan...

BREAKING| Supreme Court To Hear Electoral Bonds Case On September 19

The Supreme Court will hear the electoral bonds case on September 19. The petition filed by Association for Democratic Reforms in 2017 (WP(c) 880/2017) challenging the anonymous electoral bonds scheme is seen listed on the Advance List published for September 19. The information about the bench is not available at the moment.The case was never listed during the term of the term of CJI NV...

'AG KK Venugopal Is My Role Model, Will Appoint a Committee To Study the Demands Of SCBA': CJI UU Lalit

Recounting his journey, CJ Lalit narrated, "Where do I begin? I came here way back in 85, but before that, my first brush with the Supreme Court was in 1979-81 when the Re: special courts act was being argued in this court. That time, I was a student and because that was my first case which I had followed, I sat there all through- the bench headed by Justice Y. V. Chandrachud, the bench...

Convicts Who've Completed 10 Years Of Sentence, Whose Appeals Won't Be Heard Soon, Should Be Released On Bail Unless There Are Other Reasons : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday opined that all persons who have completed 10 years of sentence, and whose appeals will not be heard in the near future, should be enlarged on bail, unless there are other reasons to deny them bail.A division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay Shreeniwas Oka was considering a batch of petitions of life convicts in jail whose appeals are...

'Right To Wear Hijab Is A Cultural Right Protected Under Article 29, Issue Requires Consideration Of A Larger Bench': Kapil Sibal To Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today continued hearing the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgment which upheld the ban on wearing hijab by Muslim students in educational institutions.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal urged the division bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia to refer the matter to the Constitution Bench. He submitted that the issue involved in this case...