Author: NitiRiti Bureau

New Delhi, July 31. The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central government several searching questions on what it had done so far to stem the sectarian violence in Manipur, why there was a delay in filing an FIR regarding a May incident in which two women were gang-raped and paraded naked in public, and held out hope of the court intervention by way of sending a non-partisan team to the state to “restore faith in the Constitution and rule of law”. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud suggested creating a non-partisan group, including civil…

Says no overt or covert terrorist act attributed to them in any evidence New Delhi, July 28. The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to trade union activist Vernon Gonsalves and human rights activist and lawyer Arun Ferreira, who were arrested and charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, in the wake of the Bhima Koregaon violence. The charges against them were serious but there was nothing in the evidence to attribute any overt or covert acts of terrorism to them, a two-judge bench, comprising Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia said. The contents of the letters through which…

gives time to mosque authorities to appeal to HC against district judge’s order New Delhi, July 24. The Supreme Court on Monday asked the ASI to hold off a survey and excavation of the Gyanvapi mosque complex till July 26 to allow the mosque authorities to challenge this in the Allahabad High Court. A district court had ordered a survey and excavation of the mosque complex on July 21. The mosque authorities, through senior advocate Huzeffa Ahmadi, argued that the district judge had passed the order late on July 21, making it difficult for them to move the High Court.…

Stays proceedings pending in High Courts against Adipurush New Delhi, July 21. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to set aside the CBFC certification for the movie Adipurush on the ground that it cannot scrutinize all movies after they have been certified by the competent authority. “We cannot act as the appellate authority,” the bench said lamenting falling tolerance levels among the audience. “We now have to scrutinise every movie?” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul asked. Tolerance levels are going down whether it was movies or paintings or books, he lamented. “Someone or the other’s sentiments are always hurt whether genuinely…

The central government claimed in the Supreme Court recently that things were better in Kashmir after Aug 5, 2019, when Article 370 (of the Constitution) which conferred a special status on the state in the Indian Union, was made inoperative. The top court though said it would not examine these claims but only stick to examining the legal issues involved in the case. What are these legal issues? What’s the history behind J-K? Ans: The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir came into existence on March 16, 1846, when the treaty of Amritsar was signed between the East India Company…

Says ten criminal cases are pending against him and that representatives of the people must have clear antecedents New Delhi, July 7. The Gujarat High Court on Friday refused to stay Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case over his remarks that all thieves bore the Modi surname. As many as ten criminal cases were pending against the “accused” in the case, the single judge said referring to Rahul Gandhi. “It is now need of the hour to have purity in politics. Representatives of people should be man of clear antecedent,” the High Court said. It appears from…

The Congress party will now approach the Supreme Court for relief in the defamation case over which has been disqualified as a Member of Parliament New Delhi, July 7, 2023 (Press Conference by Dr. Abhishek Singhvi, Senior Advocate and Member of Parliament) “Friends, today a single judge bench of the Gujarat High Court passed an order dismissing Shri. Rahul Gandhi’s application asking for a stay on conviction. This is highly disappointing, but it is not unexpected. Let us begin by recalling the dates, because the dates are relevant: The appeal against the Sessions Court’s order was filed on April 25th,…

New Delhi, May 19. A Supreme Court empowered expert committee on Friday informed the court that it did not have enough material to conclude that there was a regulatory failure on SEBI’s part or that the prices of Adani stocks were manipulated. The committee had been charged with the task of suggesting ways and means to strengthen the regulatory framework to prevent any short-selling of stocks in the future. The material provided by the market regulator showed that it had had its suspicions regarding Adani and had been probing the company since 2020 much before Hindenberg, it said. “SEBI had…

New Delhi, May 19. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed for now the proposed carbon-dating of a structure being claimed by warring parties inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex. This is a sensitive issue, a bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said. The Allahabad High Court had on May 12, 2023, ordered the ASI to carry out carbon-dating of the structure which the mosque management says is a fountain. Those who have staked claim to the mosque have claimed that the structure is a shivling while the mosque management says that it is a fountain that provides water…

New Delhi, May 18. The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed for now a ban imposed by the Bengal government on public release of the controversial movie the Kerala story in the state. The bench has also asked the film makers to carry a disclaimer stating that this was a work of fiction. There’s was no data to suggest that over 32,000 girls had been converted in the state as the movie claims, a bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud observed. This is a distortion, he said. Senior advocate Harish Salve conceded that there was no authentic data…