NEW DELHI: In his petition to Supreme Court, Jharkhand ex-CM Hemant Soren said on Thursday that the Centre started a witch-hunt against him after JMM-Congress alliance had defeated BJP in 2019 assembly elections.CJI ordinarily refuses oral requests for listing, especially when he is heading a Constitution bench. At present, he is leading a seven-judge bench … Read more
NEW DELHI: Solicitor general Tushar Mehta on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that even Indira Gandhi government which amended the Aligarh Muslim University Act 1n 1981 to fulfil Congress party’s poll promise and which distorted the recorded history in order to show that the university had been established by Muslims, had refused to handover administration … Read more
NEW DELHI: As the country waits for the Supreme Court’s historic decision on Article 370, Sunil Dimple, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference has said that the decision which will come today will be written in golden letters while Amit Raina, of the NGO Roots in Kashmir has expressed his confidence that the … Read more
JAMMU: With just a few hours before the Supreme Court announces its verdict on Article 370, Congress leader Ravinder Sharma has said that people are expecting a lot from the Apex Court.Ravinder Sharma told “People are expecting a lot from the Supreme Court and we believe that the SC will rightly uphold the Constitution and … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre why did it single out Assam and exclude West Bengal from grant of citizenship under section 6A of the Citizenship Act when the latter shares a much larger border with Bangladesh. Section 6A of the Citizenship Act relates to illegal immigrants in Assam.Observing that illegal … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday appeared unpersuaded by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for a third-year law student, who attempted to punch holes in Sebi‘s probe into 24 cases of irregularities relating to alleged stock market manipulations by the Adani Group and argued that the regulator had failed to take note of “credible information” … Read more
NEW DELHI: With no sign of abatement of the turf war between the Centre and the Delhi government and a new front opening over the selection of the chief secretary of the national capital territory, the Supreme Court on Friday devised a unique method to insulate those in the zone of consideration from social media … Read more
As soon as the hearing of the case started today, the court first discussed the affidavit of National Conference leader Mohammad Akbar Lone. Senior Advocate Harish Salve speaks in the presence of the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud during a hearing challenging the abrogation of Article 370 … Read more