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NEW DELHI: SC on Monday sought responses from EC and the Centre on a PIL seeking the creation of a pan-India fingerprint and iris biometrics database for authentication at booth level to stop bogus, proxy, and ghost voters. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi told PIL petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay that…
NEW DELHI: With the Centre supporting a plea filed against alleged financial fraud and siphoning of funds by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), SC Friday directed CBI and ED to share with it the findings of their probe conducted so far against the group.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday sought govt’s response to a PIL which sought concessional air-conditioned (AC) class rail fare for acid attack survivors to enable them travel to well-equipped hospitals for periodic treatment.A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant issued notice to govt on the PIL by NGO ‘Atijeevan Society’, whose…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into allegations of irregularities and manipulations in electoral rolls levelled by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and asked the petitioner to approach EC for redressal of grievance.The petitioner’s counsel, senior advocate Shashi Kiran, told a…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a probe into allegations made by US-based short-seller Viceroy Research LLC against Vedanta Limited, Hindustan Zinc Limited and related entities.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and A S Chandurkar said that it was not inclined to entertain the matter and a PIL petitioner…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL seeking a court-monitored investigation into the deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan allegedly caused by toxic cough syrups.The petition calls for systemic reforms in drug safety mechanisms and a probe under the supervision of a retired Supreme Court judge to “ensure…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the government’s response to a public interest litigation (PIL) that has called for restrictions on the import of yellow peas, citing concerns that the cheap supply of the pulse substitute is affecting the livelihoods of Indian farmers.Yellow peas (Pisum sativum) belong to the legume family but are…
Mumbai: Observing there is a need to discourage the trend of multiplicity of litigation, Bombay HC Thursday dismissed a PIL challenging Maharashtra govt’s decision to issue Kunbi caste certificates to members of Maratha community. “It is in the larger public interest that there should not be multiplicity of litigations, where different individuals file applications one…
