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PM Modi attacks Cong over lawyers' letter to CJI: ‘To browbeat, bully others…’

PM Modi issued a strong attack to the Congress over a letter written by top lawyers to CJI Chandrachud over “undermining judiciary's integrity”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File Photo)
Updated on Mar 28, 2024 07:08 PM IST

Supreme Court judge BR Gavai highlights Indian Constitution’s role

Justice Gavai was one of the judges on the Constitution bench that quashed the 2018 electoral bond (EB) case scheme by a judgment on February 15

Justice Gavai is in line to become the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in May 2025. (HT Photo)
Published on Mar 27, 2024 12:45 PM IST

Chandigarh admn forms panel to look into expansion of Model Jail

The committee will be headed by district and sessions judge, and have district magistrate, senior superintendent of police and superintendent, Model Jail, as members, and secretary, district legal services authority, as the convenor.

In compliance with the Supreme Court’s directions, the UT administration has constituted a committee to assess the jail infrastructure in Chandigarh, and take a call on the number of additional jails to be constructed. (HT File)
Updated on Mar 27, 2024 09:24 AM IST
By, Chandigarh

Will Texas succeed in enforcing its own immigration law?

The state’s latest challenge to the federal government’s powers, SB4, is in limbo

A drone view shows migrants enduring cold and blustery weather as they line up against the border wall to surrender to immigration officials after breaching a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande River in El Paso, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif(REUTERS)
Published on Mar 27, 2024 01:20 AM IST
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Constitutional rights need not always be enforced: Madhya Pradesh HC

It is not always necessary to enjoy or enforce certain rights, even though they are guaranteed by the Constitution, the Madhya Pradesh high court observed recently.

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Updated on Mar 27, 2024 06:50 AM IST
By, Bhopal

Karnataka Minister Krishna Byre Gowda hits out at central govt over water crisis

Karnataka Minister Krishna Byre Gowda lashed out at the central government on Saturday as Bengaluru continues grappling with a severe water crisis.

Karnataka Minister Krishna Byre Gowda hits out at central govt over water crisis((Twitter/krishnabgowda))
Published on Mar 24, 2024 11:30 AM IST
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‘Subjected to vicious abuse for…’: CJI Chandrachud recalls recent trolling

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud was speaking after inaugurating the 21st Biennial State Level Conference of Judicial Officers .

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud addresses the 21st Biennial State Level Conference of Judicial Officers on the theme of 'Equity and Excellence for Futuristic Judiciary', in Bengaluru, Saturday, March 23, 2024. (PTI)
Published on Mar 23, 2024 07:16 PM IST

Preventive detention based on capricious exercise of powers must be nipped in bud: SC

Preventive detention based on capricious exercise of powers must be nipped in bud: SC

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Published on Mar 23, 2024 01:11 PM IST
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SC scraps govt notification exempting green nod for extraction of ordinary earth

The Supreme Court has struck down a March 2020 notification of the Union environment ministry that exempted green clearance for extraction of ordinary earth for linear projects such as laying of roads and pipelines

The bench’s order on Thursday came on a petition by environmental activist Noble M Paikada, who had initially challenged the 2020 notification before NGT that dismissed the appeal. (ANI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 04:45 AM IST
ByAbraham Thomas, Jayashree Nandi, New Delhi

Archaeological survey begins at Bhojshala complex in Dhar

A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday began a scientific survey of Bhojshala, a protected 11th-century monument in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, as the Supreme Court refused to interfere with a high court order on the exercise at the contentious site

Security personnel stand guard outside Bhojshala/Kamal Maula Mosque complex after a team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) reached the complex for a survey in Dhar on Friday. (PTI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 08:04 AM IST
By, Abraham Thomas, Bhopal/new Delhi

Improper preventive detention orders must be nipped in bud: SC

The bench also cautioned the state of Telangana against the issuance of improper detention orders, pointing out two of such orders that were recently nixed by the top court

The judgment of the top court came while quashing the preventive detention order of a man under the Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act, 1986, following registration of two FIRs against him on charges of chain snatching (ANI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 05:58 AM IST
By, New Delhi

Role of LoP in appointment process cannot be rendered meaningless: SC

The court said it would adjudicate the petition “bearing in mind the countrywide ramification, it will be appropriate for this court to lay down parameters for holding effective consultation”

On March 16, the Madhya Pradesh government issued notification appointing justice Satyendra Kumar Singh (retired) as the new Lokayukta of the state (ANI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 05:46 AM IST

PMLA case: ED must tell accused grounds of arrest, reaffirms top court

Pankaj and Basant Bansal were summoned by ED on June 14 for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, but they were arrested in another case registered by ED on the same day

The Centre filed the review petition in December against the Supreme Court’s October 3 judgment which questioned the federal agency’s “style of functioning” (ANI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 02:40 AM IST

Congress calls electoral bond scheme biggest scam

Abhay Dubey, spokesperson of the All India Congress Committee, said that the electoral bond scheme, which was notified effective January 2, 2018, lacked transparency and has become a glaring example of the misuse of government machinery.

For Representation Only: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi address the media after meeting SC, ST and OBC leaders of the INDIA bloc, in New Delhi, Friday (PTI)
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 05:18 AM IST
By, Lucknow

Uncertainty over fate of 2 lakh madrasa students, 10K teachers in UP

There are 16,500 recognized, 560 aided and 8,500 unrecognized madrasas in UP, where over 2 lakh students are getting education. Where will these students go...to which schools would they be transferred, asks Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, chairman, UP Madrasa Education Board

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, “unconstitutional” and violative of the principles of secularism and directed the state government to accommodate students studying in madrasas in regular schools. (Pic for representation)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 09:53 PM IST

SC reverses trial court order against Bloomberg in Zee defamation case

The top court was hearing a plea filed by Bloomberg against the March 14 order of the Delhi High Court, which dismissed its appeal against the trail court order

The Supreme Court
Published on Mar 22, 2024 07:48 PM IST
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Tamil Nadu governor administers oath to Ponmudy as minister after SC's directive

A day after the Supreme Court's directive, Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi administered oath to senior DMK leader K Ponmudy as a minister in the state cabinet.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi
Published on Mar 22, 2024 06:19 PM IST
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SC transfers pleas against OTT Rules, Digital Media Ethics Code to Delhi HC

The SC bench passed the order on a transfer petition moved by the Centre requesting the top court to consolidate all petitions at one high court

The Supreme Court of India. (File photo.)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 05:17 PM IST
ByAbraham Thomas

SC refuses to interfere with MP HC order asking ASI to survey Bhojshala

Hindus consider Bhojshala to be a temple dedicated to Vagdevi (Goddess Saraswati) while the Muslims call it Kamal Maula Mosque

The court observed that an ASI survey usually takes time. (HT PHOTO)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 04:40 PM IST
ByAbraham Thomas

‘No intention to disregard court’: TN Guv tells SC, agrees to swear in K Ponmudi

The court had on Thursday called Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi’s decision to withhold consent for the swearing-in as “constitutionally illegal”

Supreme Court of India. (PTI File Photo)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 02:50 PM IST
ByAbraham Thomas

Arvind Kejriwal withdraws his plea from Supreme Court against ED arrest

Kejriwal is also due to be produced before a special court at Rouse Avenue on Friday, where ED will seek his custody

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on Thursday (HT Photo)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 01:09 PM IST

Himachal’s 6 rebel Congress MLAs likely to withdraw disqualification plea in SC

The former MLAs want to contest the June 1 assembly byelections from the seats that have fallen vacant after their disqualification; apex court lists plea for hearing on May 6

Six former Congress MLAs are contemplating the withdrawal of their plea from the Supreme Court in which they have challenged an order of the Himachal Pradesh Speaker disqualifying them from the assembly. The court has listed their plea for hearing on May 6. (HTfile photo)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 12:30 PM IST
ByPress Trust of India

Supreme Court declines to consider K Kavitha’s bail plea

A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela M Trivedi emphasised that trial court should be the first to hear any bail request

BRS leader K Kavitha being taken to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after she was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case in New Delhi on March 15.(PTI)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 01:00 PM IST

Arvind Kejriwal withdraws SC plea; AAP claims his family under ‘house arrest’

The BJP, meanwhile, claimed Arvind Kejriwal and AAP are playing the victim card.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal being taken away by ED following his arrest on Thursday. (HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 12:36 PM IST

SC asks K Kavitha to approach trial court for bail in excise policy case

The court, however, issued a notice on her petition challenging provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act under which she was arrested on March 15.

BRS leader K Kavitha, arrested by the ED in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, being produced at the Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi on March 16.(HT photo)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 11:25 AM IST

SC refuses to stay appointment of poll officers through new law

SC berated the Union government for expediting the appointment process while the matter was still before the highest court

SC noted that the law cannot be blamed exclusively for lacking a judge on the selection panel. (ANI)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 03:00 AM IST

SC raps TN guv for refusing to reinstate Ponmudi as minister

Ponmudi was disqualified on December 21, 2023 when the Madras high court convicted and sentenced him to three years imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case

The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu approached the top court on March 18, a day after the Governor rejected chief minister MK Stalin’s request to swear in Ponmudi as higher education minister (ANI)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 05:32 PM IST
ByAbraham Thomas, New Delhi

Ban on power lines in habitats of Great Indian Bustard relaxed

Supreme Court eases ban on high power transmission lines in GIB habitat, forms expert committee to balance conservation and development goals in Rajasthan and Gujarat.

GIB is listed as Critically Endangered by International Union for Conservation of Nature (Shutterstock)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 07:52 AM IST
ByAbraham Thomas, New Delhi

Apex court puts on hold setting up of Centre’s fact-checking unit

Using the rule, the government on Wednesday designated the Press Information Bureau as the government’s fact-checking body for any content relating to the central government

The top court’s order came in response to petitions filed by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, the Editors Guild of India, and the Association of Indian Magazines (ANI)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 07:18 AM IST
ByAbraham Thomas, New Delhi

Electoral bonds: Donor-party link public after SC push

The two sets of data cover electoral bonds purchased and redeemed from April 12, 2019 until January 11, 2024

Supreme Court had called for a categorical affidavit of the SBI chairman by 5pm on March 21 that the bank has disclosed all the information in its custody and that no details have been withheld. (PTI)
Updated on Mar 22, 2024 02:29 AM IST
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