Tag: Supreme Court

New Delhi: Soon after the Supreme Court gave him the permission, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Wednesday that he will visit the Kashmir Valley to meet his party’s ailing leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami on Thursday. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said: “I had filed a petition in Supreme Court to produce […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that specific information had been received from foreign banks which include inputs on former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s properties abroad. These included house numbers and companies which owned them. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi: “As a […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Collegium on Friday released the name of four different High Court Chief Justices, who have been considered for being appointed as judges of the top court. The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended that the Centre elevate four Chief Justices of different high courts to the apex court. It has recommended […]

Ayodhya: Amid daily hearings by the Supreme Court on the issue of the Babri Masjid-Ram temple in Ayodhya, a book written by a former IPS officer has claimed that the Ram temple was not demolished during the reign of Babar, but of Aurangzeb. The book brings forth old records of the British era, ancient Sanskrit […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will remain in the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) custody till September 5 despite the investigating agency informing the court that it does not want to question him further. Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Chidambaram, assured […]

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram now faces arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the INX Media case after the Supreme Court on Thursday refused his plea to grant him anticipatory bail. A bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi said: “This is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. Investigating agency […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Iltija Javed, the daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, to meet her mother. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi allowed Iltijia Javed to visit Srinagar, provided she first takes permission from the concerned district authorities. The court said […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will examine on September 16 a batch of petitions, involving various issues, including relaxation of movement, in Jammu and Kashmir. The apex court decided this on Thursday while hearing petitions. Kashmir Times Editor Anuradha Bhasin’s counsel told the Bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, that the media was not […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said a plea seeking live telecast or recording of the hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute case be listed before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. A five-judge constitution bench headed by the CJI is hearing the Ayodhya land dispute case. The plea, filed […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said that Rs 10 crore deposited by Karti Chidambaram with the apex court’s registry for travelling abroad, will not be released for another three months. A bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta said the amount will continue to remain in fixed deposit. Karti Chidambaram had deposited the amount […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst strict enforcement of the Motor Vehicles Act, Director General of Odisha Police BK Sharma on Friday directed all the Superintendents of Police to launch a new drive to put a check on drunken driving across Odisha. Implementing a directive of Supreme Court’s road safety committee, DGP Sharma has directed the SPs to strictly […]

Puri: Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta and Supreme Court-appointed Amicus Curiae Ranjit Kumar on Saturday virtually gave a clean chit to the Odisha government’s demolition drive on structures around Puri Srimandir saying it was being carried out with consent of the stakeholders and would benefit the people. The duo first visited the temple before meeting […]

New Delhi: A controversial case of an inter-faith marriage from Chattisgarh was taken up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. A Hindu woman had married a Muslim man who admitted that he converted to Hinduism in order to be accepted by the woman’s family. The woman’s family has disputed the man’s conversion to […]

Washington: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the administration to enforce new asylum rules, which would cut down the number of asylum seekers, in a major political victory for President Donald Trump. The decision allows the Trump administration to implement its policy while the litigation process in lower courts is on. Two of the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) met in the capital on Friday and addressed the various queries placed before them by state associations. Interestingly, CoA chief Vinod Rai also clarified the decision to appoint observers in the 10 state associations and said that they wouldn’t be involved in any decision-making process. When […]