Tag: Verdict

Hijab Case In Supreme Court: Lawyers React

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has lifted the ban on entry of women into the Sabarimala temple of Kerala. While reading out the verdict, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said, “The practice of barring women in age group of 10-50 to go inside the temple is violative of constitutional principles.” “Right to worship is […]

New Delhi: Pronouncing its verdict on disqualification of sitting MPs and MLAs with criminal background, the Supreme Court today said that they can’t be disqualified before conviction in a criminal case as the apex court declined to interfere in the matter and left it to Parliament to frame relevant laws. Earlier, a Public Interest Litigation […]

Thiruvananthapuram: An ashram run by a supporter of the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict came under attack early on Saturday here, Kerala Police said, and announced a probe by a special team. While Swami Sandeepananda Giri accused the BJP-RSS combine for the attack, a Sabarimala tantri family member said the monk himself set his property ablaze […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will likely pronounce on Thursday its verdict on the plea by Muslim litigants seeking direction that a larger Constitution bench hear the batch of petitions challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict which directed splitting into three parts the disputed site at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. The bench of chief […]

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which had commenced the hearing on as many as 31 petitions, including one filed by former High Court judge K S […]

Bhubaneswar: While delivering the historic judgment on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya on Saturday, the Supreme Court considered three significant hearings of Odisha as case studies. The first case study pertains to that of 1966 Emar Mutt case between Mutt Mahant Srinivasa Ramanuj Das and Surajnarayan Dass. During the hearing in the case, […]

Cuttack: Special Court in Cuttack under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has awarded 20-years rigorous imprisonment to one Karunakara Kandi for raping a minor girl in Dharmasala on April 21, 2014. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. “Honourable court has awarded him greater punishment under […]