Let the existing collegium system which is functioning not get derailed, the SC observed.
The meeting between the CJI and four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- lasted for around 10-15 minutes before resumption of court proceedings at 10:30 am, court sources said.
The BS-IV emission norms will come into force from April 1, 2017.
'Government must take into consideration the human cost of the NRC exercise'
The Supreme Court on Monday held that Tamil Nadu government has no right to appoint advocate Bhawani Singh as special public prosecutor to appear in Karnataka High Court for J Jayalalithaa's disproportionate assets case.
The SC expressed concern over 14,926 people being killed in road accidents due to potholes
'The act of demolition, for whatever reason, was far too hasty without even giving an opportunity of an appeal.'
The apex court had said in previous judgments that only fresh leases were to be granted by the Goa government, not second renewals.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur made it clear that only BS VI compliant vehicle shall be sold in the country from April 1, 2020.
Justice Gogoi said he has a plan to deal with the backlog of cases and he will "unfold" it soon.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to the Central Information Commission's order dismissing an RTI appeal seeking the agenda of the Supreme Court collegium's meeting on December 12, 2018, when certain decisions were purportedly taken on elevation of judges to the apex court.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah and other accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case on the plea of Central Bureau of Investigation seeking transfer of certain documents from Gujarat to a Maharashtra court.
The government had on April 26 declined to accept the recommendation of the collegium and asked it to reconsider his name.
'How can he (man) be so unreasonable? He is treating her as a chattel. She is not an object'
The collegium has recommended to the Centre to appoint justices N H Patil and D K Gupta as the chief justices of the Bombay and Calcutta high court.
Vijay Singh had fired at assistant town planner Shail Bala Sharma, who was leading a SC mandated demolition drive against illegal structures, and fled.
Justice Dipak Misra retires on October 2.
The SC on Monday sought responses from former Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa seeking removal of public prosecutor.
On the first working day after the unprecedented presser on Friday, tt was business back to normal on Monday
Justice Gogoi will assume the office on October 3.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde passed the order while considering the Centre's stand that it is coming out with a comprehensive legislation to deal with air pollution, including the aspect of stubble burning.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused grant bail to one of the accused in the Gulberg Society massacre case of 2002 Gujarat riots in which former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsan Jafri and 67 others were killed, saying it has asked the lower court to conclude trial in three months.
The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on certain states for not implementing welfare legislation National Food Security Act, saying that why a state like Gujarat was not implementing the law passed by Parliament.
On July 30, the CBI informed the apex court that its had filed two chargesheets before the competent court in connection with the cases.
After resisting for more than three years, the Centre on Tuesday revealed names of 18 persons in the Supreme Court who allegedly stashed black money with the LST bank in Liechtenstein and against whom prosecution have been launched by the Income Tax department.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur asked the Centre as to what action has been taken in the matter.
The apex court-appointed panel is investigating alleged scuttling of probe into coal block allocation scam cases by Sinha whose meetings with accused persons have been held as "completely inappropriate".
The CBI in its report had alleged that Thakur is an influential person and a mobile phone was recovered from him inside the jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody.
The apex court imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the Union women and child development ministry.
The decision was taken on October 3.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday a plea seeking its direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to name Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in its First Information Repotfiled against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former Coal Secretary P C Parakh in a coal block allocation case.
ASG said it would be impossible to accommodate people in public transport if odd-even scheme is made applicable for two-wheelers also.
The Supreme Court on Monday posed some tough questions to a lawyer, asking him to substantiate his "unfounded allegations" in a PIL that Indian pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd was allegedly manufacturing and selling adulterated medicines.
The mass cancellation of coal blocks by the Supreme Court has sent banks in a jittery mode as they have extended over Rs 1 lakh crore loans to power plants that were fed by these mines.
The Congress accused the Centre of making a serious assault on the basic structure of the Constitution, saying the action subsumes the independence of the judiciary.
Speculations surrounding Justice Gogoi's appointment as the next CJI emerged following the unprecedented press conference of 4 most-senior judges.
Supreme Court says guidelines were breached, no criteria were followed while allocating the blocks.
The Supreme Court on Monday held that all coal block allocations made since 1993 till 2010 before pre-auction era during previous National Democratic Alliance and United Progressive Alliance regimes have been done in an illegal manner by an "ad-hoc and casual" approach "without application of mind".
The apex court, however, turned down the plea of the petitioner and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, for allowing him to go through the contents of the report.
During his tenure as an apex court judge, Justice Lokur had dealt with pollution matter which included the aspect of stubble burning.
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