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New Delhi, Jan 3. A Madhya Pradesh anti-conversion law provision, mandating a 60-day notice to the District Magistrate in case of all inter-faith marriages, will remain stayed for now, with the Supreme Court on Tuesday refusing a state government plea to vacate the stay order. The MP High court had on Nov 20, 2022, found Section 10 of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, prima facie unconstitutional. This section requires individuals, who intend to convert upon marriage, and the priest who would carry out the conversion, to notify the district magistrate of their intention 60 days in advance.…
New Delhi, Jan 2. Six years after demonetisation, the Supreme Court on Monday said the decision-making process behind the sudden move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bank notes cannot be faulted on any count, especially on whether there was effective consultation with the RBI, and need not be reversed. The top court also said that the 52-day window to exchange the old notes for the new was enough and refused to extend it any further. The bank contrasted this window to an eight-day window during the 1978 demonetisation to declare the 52-day window as reasonable. “… we do…
What the SC majority said: Demonetisation was a policy decision which fell under the domain of the executive. Decision not flawed and doesn’t suffer from any serious legal or constitutional flaws. The government took a call after consulting the RBI as envisaged under the existing laws. RBI has no such independent “demonetisation” powers and the central government has the power to demonetise a series or the whole of currency notes of a particular denomination. Demonetisation also satisfied the test of proportionality as there was a reasonable nexus between the objects sought to be achieved by the law and the means…
1. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which tracks developments in the legal recognition of same sex marriage around the world, says 32 countries recognise same sex marriage as legal. This has been sanctioned by law in some countries and judicial fiat in others. 2. These are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, the US and Uruguay. 3. Most of these countries also recognise the right of these couples to adopt children. 4. This despite opposition…
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने बिलकिस बानो की पुनर्विचार याचिका खारिज़ कर दी है। बिलकिस ने याचिका दायर कर 13 मई के आदेश पर दोबारा विचार की मांग की थी। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने कहा था कि गैंगरेप के दोषियों की रिहाई में 1992 में बने नियम लागू होंगे। 13 दिसंबर को ये याचिका सुनवाई के जजों के चेंबर में सुनवाई के लिए लगी थी और बिलकिस की वकील शोभा गुप्ता को सूचना दी गई है कि ये याचिका खारिज की दी गई है। 15 अगस्त 2022 को गुजरात सरकार ने 11 दोषियों की रिहाई की थी जिसके खिलाफ बिलकिस ने याचिका दायर…
New Delhi, Dec 15. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday blamed the collegium system of judges appointing judges for the judicial vacancies and piling case arrears and said the system will not improve till this process was changed. He said that the government only had a “limited role” in the system which was not in keeping with the Constitution or the people’s sentiments (as reflected by Parliament) and hence couldn’t do much about judicial vacancies and the huge arrears. https://youtu.be/2p375FxOgao Courtesy: Sansad TV The government had provided all infrastructural support to the judiciary to cope with the work load, the…
New Delhi, Dec 14. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it would hear a PIL alleging that over 2 million voters were deleted from the voters’ lists in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as it involved a very “serious issue”. A two-judges bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud issued notices to the Election Commission on the petition. The other respondents were the Union government and the two states. The other judge on the bench was Justice P.S. Narasimha. The PIL, filed by an engineer Srinivas Kodali, alleged that instead of drawing up the voters’…