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.
A nine-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, heard marathon arguments for six days over a period of three weeks and reserved its verdict on the issue whether right to privacy can be held as a fundamental right under the Constitution.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, however, said that the National Investigation Agency may continue its investigation in the matter.
The bench referred to the June 9 judgement passed by the apex court in which it had upheld the validity of an Income Tax Act provision making Aadhaar mandatory for allotment of PAN cards
The ripple effects of Gauhati high court's ruling holding as 'unconstitutional' the setting up of the Central Bureau of Investigation was felt in criminal courts in New Delhi and legal experts expressed apprehension about "disastrous" implications of the verdict.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to modify its 2014 order on transgenders while clarifying that lesbians, gays and bisexuals are not third gender.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, on Tuesday, decided to hold its much-delayed Annual General Meeting on December 17 even as it stood firmly behind embattled president-in-exile N Srinivasan after he was cleared of IPL fixing charges by the Supreme Court-appointed probe committee.
The government had said on Friday that it would oppose the practice of nikah halala when the top court examines its legal validity.
Delhi HC said, with reference to the Greenpeace activist, that difference of opinion does not mean being anti-national.
The Supreme Court on Friday posed tough questions on allotment of Rs 1,078 crores under National Urban Livelihood Mission to states and asked the Centre to apprise it as to what happened to the huge money and whether new shelter homes for urban poor have been built.
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