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NEW DELHI: The ten-day long educative debate before a five-judge Supreme Court bench on the Presidential Reference seeking the apex court’s opinion on the judiciary’s power to fix timelines for the President and governors as well as grant ‘deemed assent’ to pending bills was a serious affair but was not shorn of humour.When a bench…
File photo of India and Pakistan fans. (Image credit: AFP) The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to urgently list a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking cancellation of the upcoming India vs Pakistan cricket match scheduled for September 14 in Dubai as part of the Asia Cup. The petition, filed by four law students led by…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of a media report on custodial deaths in police stations and decided to examine implementation of its earlier order on installing CCTV cameras in police stations.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta referred to a report in Dainik Bhaskar on custodial deaths in…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal on Wednesday warned that vesting governors with discretion to decide the fate of bills would jeopardise states’ legislative functions, while Supreme Court-prescribed timeline for governors and the President would expedite transforming people’s will into laws. This would not amount to amending the Constitution, it told the court. The TMC govt, through…
NEW DELHI: Is it possible for a person to shoot themselves in the chest with a rifle? Supreme Court raised this question while wondering whether the death of a man, who died in similar circumstances, was really a case of suicide as alleged by the prosecution or one of murder.Hearing a plea against anticipatory bail…
S Sreesanth and Rahul Dravid (Image-X) The long shadow of a decade-old case involving former India fast bowler S Sreesanth has once again reached the Supreme Court, pulling the Rajasthan Royals into the spotlight. Back in 2012, Sreesanth was ruled out of the IPL season after suffering a knee injury during a practice match in…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and SCERTs on a PIL alleging that these two have failed to implement a year-old directive of the apex court to integrate comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in textbooks.A bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and…
The Supreme Court of India has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the government’s rollout of E20 petrol, a blend of 20 per cent ethanol and 80 per cent petrol. The petition argued that motorists should have the option of ethanol-free fuel, especially those driving vehicles manufactured before 2023, which may not be fully…
NEW DELHI: Taking note of a delay in uploading a Punjab and Haryana high court order rejecting an anticipatory bail, Supreme Court directed that the steno book of the judge’s secretary be seized to find out when the order was typed and corrected. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi noted that…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that the motor vehicles tax, which is imposed for use of public places and infrastructure, cannot be levied if a vehicle does not use the same.“Motor vehicle tax is compensatory in nature. It has a direct nexus with the end use. The rationale for levy of motor vehicle tax…
