His second term as solicitor general was renewed recently.
The apex court asked the hospital authorities to conduct the termination of pregnancy preferably on September 8. "The girl would be admitted a day before," it said.
The bench also directed every state to file a status report on actions taken to prevent incidents of cow vigilantism.
Rohatgi was in June, 2014 appointed as the country's chief law officer for a fixed three-year term.
The doctors said in their report that there was a "complete absence of brain and skull" of the foetus and survival rate was minimal.
Names and pictures of political parties and their office bearers should not be mentioned in ad.
The bench expressed satisfaction over the medical care being provided to the girl.
Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Wednesday termed as "very unfortunate" certain "speculations and reports" in the media about the collegium meeting regarding the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court.
The searches spanned across Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Lucknow and Allahabad among other cities, CBI sources said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Central Board of Secondary Education's plea seeking more time to re-conduct All India Pre Medical Test-2015 exam which was scrapped in view of large-scale cheating in the test.
A vacation bench of Justices RK Agrawal and Amitava Roy gave the ruling on a batch of petitions seeking re-conduct of the AIPMT following the leak of the question paper and circulation of answer keys through electronic devices at different examination centres across 10 states.
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on petitions seeking re-conduct of All India Pre-Medical Test 2015 for alleged large-scale irregularities in the examination held on May 3.
The Kohinoor diamond, estimated to cost over $200 million (Rs 1,465 crore), was neither stolen nor "forcibly" taken by British rulers but given to East India Company by erstwhile rulers of Punjab
The Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained all states from exercising power of remission for releasing convicts from jail who are serving life sentence and sought their response whether the Centre's nod was needed for the purpose in cases prosecuted by central agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation.
Venugopal told the court that he had given legal opinion to the AIADMK faction led by Panneerselvam.
The court on September 3 asked the SIT to submit its fresh report.
The move assumes significance as the government decided to go ahead with the formation of the search committee despite Congress leader in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, boycotting meetings of the Lokpal selection panel.
Reminding the Narendra Modi government that cleaning of Ganga was on its poll manifesto, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked why urgent steps are not being taken on it and set a two-week timeline for it to come up with a road map for making the 2500 km long river pollution free.
In a statement, the government claimed it has not yet conveyed its views to the court "contrary to what is being misrepresented" in the media.
The SC imposed fine of Rs 25,000 on Jain for failing to disclose names of officers disobeying orders.
Foreigners cannot rent a womb in India, the central government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of guidelines on regulation of public advertisements.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre and Chhattisgarh government to find a peaceful solution to the Naxal problem in the state and adopt a "pragmatic" approach towards life.
The search committee will forward the names to the selection committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India or his nominee, Lok Sabha Speaker, the leader of the largest opposition party and an eminent jurist.
It also sought the assistance of the Centre and states for removing violent content related to cow vigilantism uploaded on social media.
"There can be a situation where a person has lost his/her money for no fault," SC said.
The court also allowed Indian Banks' Association, another respondent, to file a response.
A bench comprising Justices A R Dave, Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy asked the Italian authority to give an undertaking to abide by the conditions under which Latorre was allowed to leave India.
"Everybody knows in this country that I charge only the rich, but for poor people I do work free and the poor people are about 90 per cent of my clientele," he said.
So far, 758 million Aadhaar numbers have been generated.
The move is likely to force the government to take a faster decision.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the authorities were "not interested" and the people have been "left to suffer".
The court was hearing petitions challenging the Aadhaar scheme.
A bench headed by Justice J S Khehar asked the medical board to examine the woman at King Edward Memorial College and Hospital at Mumbai, by Saturday and submit its report
The Centre gave an assurance to the court that the building would not be demolished.
Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, appearing for the government, said this was the stand of the Culture Ministry.
The UID number should have age, breed, sex, lactation, height, body, colour, horn type, tail switch and special marks details of the animal, the Centre said.
Several top jurists on Monday pushed for scrapping the existing collegium system where judges appoint judges but government's plans to bring a bill to make the process of appointments more transparent may take some more time.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to expand the eight-hour night-time ban period on bursting of crackers and voiced unhappiness over the government's failure to run a campaign to create public awareness during Diwali time on the ill-effects of fireworks.
The apex court imposed four conditions on the marine.
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