Justice S A Bobde, who is heading the inquiry panel, has appointed Justice Malhotra to the committee.
Justice S A Bobde, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, along with N V Ramana and Indira Banerjee will conduct an in-house inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
The Delhi HC termed the massacre "targeted killing" of unarmed and defenceless persons by the police.
The top court said former Supreme Court judge A K Patnaik will oversee the CVC inquiry.
The court said that King Ashoka had given several messages to the world which are engraved in rock edicts which shows reverence towards faith of others.
He said the Aadhaar programme violated informational privacy, self-determination and data protection.
The petitioners urged the SC that if the tigress was shot dead, both her cubs would not be able to survive in the forest.
A Jharkhand court framed charges against accused through a WhatsApp call.
It held that though the LG was not a 'titular head', he should not emerge as an 'adversary having a hostile attitude' towards the Council of Ministers but rather act as a facilitator.
It asked that even in cases where the victim had died, 'why should there be disclosure of name'.
The top court said the judicial process will be reduced to a "charade" if the courts are burdened with such cases with extraneous reasons.
The bench laid down guidelines as to who would execute the will and how the nod for passive euthanasia would be granted by the medical board.
"Tell the women in your state that you do not care for them," the bench said while observing that 24 states and UTs have not yet filed their affidavit as per the court's direction.
This assumes significance as a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is currently hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the enabling 2016 law.
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A woman has a choice to love or not to love a person. No one can force her to love somebody, observes the SC.
The candid admission of an activist seeking a blanket order to remove encroachments in the country and saying he has never cast his vote, did not go down well with the apex court leading it to make the observation.
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Rejecting a plea for 20 years jail term, the court said "it was for convicts to respect the lady especially when she was a tourist" and by their act, they have put "a stigma" on the country's reputation.
Corporate legal cases kept India Inc on its toes in 2014 as high stake matters on coal, telecom and mining came up in the Supreme Court, which also sent Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy to jail.
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