In its final arguments, the government on Friday opposed reopening of the Rafale case and asked the Supreme Court to refrain from examining the deal as nowhere in the world do courts scrutinize agreements related to defence purchases. read more

Citing issues with electronic voting machines (EVM) in the first few phases of polling for the Lok Sabha election, 21 opposition parties had filed a review petition in the Supreme Court demanding verification of 50% EVMs using voter-verified paper audit... read more

The 21 opposition leaders have urged the top court to reconsider its April 8 directive to the Election Commission of India to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five polling booths per assembly segment in every Lok Sabha c... read more

The Election Commission of India (EC) has consistently maintained that the glitches experienced in the first three phases of the seven-phase election are within acceptable limits in terms of number of defects. read more

His reaction to the court order “unfortunately got juxtaposed and mingled with the political slogan – Chowkidar Chor Hai,” Gandhi stated in the affidavit filed before the court. read more

The decision followed the hearing of a review petition filed by Sao in which he had pleaded that his arrest be deferred till the time his case was transferred to the Ranchi district court from Hazaribag. read more

The apex court on Wednesday rejected the government’s contention that sensitive documents accessed by the media on the Rafale deal cannot be evidence and said it will examine the papers while reviewing its order of December 14 last year when a clean... read more

The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed leaked documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of its Rafale judgement and dismissed the government’s preliminary objections claiming “privilege” over them. read more

The Centre had claimed privilege over documents pertaining to the Rafale fighter jet deal with France and said those documents cannot be considered in evidence as per Section 123 of the Indian Evidence Act. read more

The hearing follows a controversy after attorney general KK Venugopal told the top court that the petitioners used stolen documents in their review petitions and “should not be relied on”. read more

The Centre has also argued that the documents presented a “selective and incomplete picture of internal secret deliberations” on a matter relating to national security and defence. read more

Arguing for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, attorney general KK Venugopal said at an open court hearing that the “documents relied on by the petitioners in their review petitions were stolen from the ministry and should not be relied... read more

The counsel for the convicts, advocate AP Singh, informed the court that a curative petition might be filed by the convicts challenging the capital punishment upheld by the Supreme Court. read more

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a petition seeking review petition of its earlier judgement on Rafale fighter jet deal, in which it had refused to order a probe. read more

A Padmakumar, the president of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) that runs the temple, expressed displeasure that he had not been kept in the loop about the latest position taken by the board. read more