Author: NitiRiti Bureau

सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात के गोधरा में साबरमती एक्सप्रेस में आग लगाने के मामले में आठ दोषियों को ज़मानत दे दी है। ये लोग आजीवन कारावास की सजा काट रहे थे।  ये सारे आरोपी अभी तक करीब 18 साल की सज़ा काट चुके हैं और कोर्ट का ये फैसला इतने साल बिताने के आधार पर दिया है। 8 दोषियों को निचली अदालत और गुजरात हाई कोर्ट से उम्रकैद की सजा मिली थी। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने चार और दोषियों को ज़मानत नहीं दी है। इन चारों दोषियों को निचली अदालत से फांसी की सजा सुनाई गई थी। कोर्ट ने सुनवाई के…

New Delhi, April 20. A Surat court on Thursday refused to stay Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case over his “all Modis are thieves” remark. The two-year conviction has led to his immediate disqualification from the Lok Sabha. Gandhi was convicted by chief judicial magistrate, Surat, on March 23, 2023. He went up in revision to the Surat additional sessions judge. He can now appeal to the Gujarat High Court against this refusal to stay his conviction. Unless Gandhi gets a stay on his disqualification, he cannot contest elections and will end up not only being jailed…

New Delhi, April 20. The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked Google, YouTube and other entities operating channels on YouTube to refrain from transmitting and take down immediately all content regarding the alleged ill-health of Aradhya Bachchan, the minor daughter of actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. These channels were spreading adverse reports on her alleged ill-health, Aradhya Bachchan and her father actor Abhishek Bachchan had complained in a petition filed in court. She was a minor and her privacy must be protected, the petition, filed through Anand and Naik, said. “She’s a minor who’s mental and physical well-being stands…

समलैंगिक विवाह को लेकर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में सुनवाई के दूसरे दिन कई अहम बातें हुई। सबसे पहले केंद्र सरकार ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में एक नया हलफनामा दाखिल कर समलैंगिक विवाह सुनवाई मामले में राज्यों और केंद्रशासित प्रदेशों को भी पार्टी बनाने का आग्रह किया। इसके बाद, याचिकाकर्ता की तरफ से वरिष्ठ वकील मुकुल रोहतगी ने कहा कि औरों की तरह हमारे अधिकार की इज्जत होनी चाहिए, संविधान इसकी इजाजत देता है। रोहतगी का ये भी कहना था कि उन्हें सिर्फ शादी की मान्यता की ज़रुरत है। क्यों आया हिंदू कोड बिल का ज़िक्र ? सुनवाई के दौरान हिंदू कोड बिल…

New Delhi, April 19. The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Union government’s claims that same sex relationships were an urban, elitist concept, and consequentially the demand to recognise their right to marry, adopt children and have families was urban, elitist too. The central government had argued that though the community was allowed to exist in ancient India there was nothing to show that they married and were allowed to raise children. “This is a very urban, elitist concept,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had argued. Same sex marriages were against the personal laws of every major religion, he said. Creating…

New Delhi, April 18. The central and the Gujarat governments may seek a review of an earlier Supreme Court order asking them to show the files regarding the remission granted to all those convicted in the Bilkis Bano rape and murder case. The Gujarat government had released 11 convicts — convicted by the trial court, High Court and the Supreme Court for their heinous crimes and sentenced to a jail term for the rest of their natural life — on Aug 15, 2022, to mark the country’s independence-day celebrations. Bilkis Bano challenged the remission order in the top court. At…

New Delhi, April 18. The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it won’t get into personal laws of different religious groups, which frown upon homosexuality, while deciding whether to allow homosexual couples to marry, adopt and have a family. “We won’t get into personal laws,” CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, who’s heading the constitution bench, examining the issue, said at the outset. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul also echoed this view. “We don’t have to get into it,” Chandrachud said. This suggests that the court may just allow such marriages under the Special Marriage Act with a tweak or two to the Act…

अतीक अहमद की हत्या को लेकर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में दो याचिकाएं दाखिल हुई हैं। दोनों ही याचिकाओं में उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस पर सवाल खड़े किए हैं और कहा है कि हत्या पर जो जांच हो रही है, उस पर उन्हें संदेह है, लिहाज़ा इस मामले की जांच सीबीआई करे। पहली याचिका सुप्रीम कोर्ट के एक वकील विशाल तिवारी ने की है। इस याचिका में कहा गया है कि उत्तर प्रदेश के डीजीपी ने एक लिस्ट गिनाई थी जिसमें 183 एनकाउंटर का जिक्र है। वकील विशाल तिवारी की क्या हैं मांगे पहली मांग है कि इन सारे मामलों की सीबीआई जांच…

New Delhi, April 17. Two PILs have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into the recent killing of 5-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh Atiq Ahmed and his brother by unknown assailants while in police custody. The PILs have claimed that the all too many staged police encounters in Uttar Pradesh were a threat to the Constitution and rule of law and sought a probe by a former top court judge into the 183 odd encounters in the state since 2017. One petition was filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari and the other by petitioner in person Amitabh…

Sections 174, 175 and 176 of the CrPC, 1973, provide for magisterial inquiries into cases of unnatural death. These would apply any custodial deaths or also encounters in police custody. In the light of the recent killing of Uttar Pradesh five-time MLA Atiq Ahmed and his brother by a hit squad while in police custody, it would be pertinent to examine the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court regarding police encounter killings in the PUCL versus Maharashtra case. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for thorough, effective and independent investigation: FIR must be registered in every case of death and shall…