The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the decks for the investigation and prosecution of leading Bollywood financer Bharat Shah under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act for his alleged links with the underworld, holding that a telephonic conversation can be the basis of registration of an First Information Report against the person.
The Supreme Court will hear on September 24, a petition challenging the Constitutional validity of an ordinance granting four per cent reservation to Muslims in professional colleges by the Andhra Pradesh government.
Promising to examine the entire issue relating to the Sethusamudram project, the government sought three months' time from the court.
The Supreme Court Monday asked Aligarh Muslim University not to implement the decision to reserve 50 per cent quota for students belonging to minority community till the pendancy of the matter.
"We cannot revoke the ban. It is due to the security reasons the ban on pre-paid mobile services has been imposed," Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S Chauhan. An affidavit in this regard was placed before the bench, which asked the petitioner to file its reply and posted the matter for further hearing on January 25.
TVS was represented in court by K Parasaran, Mukul Rohtagi and Dushyant Dave, among others. C A Sundaram appeared for BAL.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking suspension of his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case to contest the Lok Sabha elections as the Samajwadi Party's candidate from Lucknow.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Aftab Alam also issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a petition filed by Zakhir Hussain Noor Sheikh, who was sentenced to death by the Mumbai Terrorist And Disruptive Activity (prevention) court.The petitioner contended in his appeal that the TADA court had failed to appreciate that there was no evidence against him, showing his involvement in the conspiracy.
The Supreme Court on Monday admitted petitions filed by Bahujan Samaj Party leaders, challenging the quashing of charges against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and other top party leaders--in a case relating to an alleged assault on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Lucknow in 1995.
The Supreme court on Wednesday stayed a non-bailable warrant issued by a Jharkhand court against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged statements and hate campaign against North Indians.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the death sentence of Mohammed Shoeb Kasam Ghansar, a death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to industrialist Ashok Todi accused of abetting the suicide of his son-in-law Rizwanur Rahman. "We are not inclined to entertain the petition," said a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. It also declined the submission of senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Todi, that the Calcutta high court be directed to decide his bail plea before winter vacation.
The Supreme Court today stayed the Bombay High Court order directing the Maharashtra government to place before it the report of Pradhan Committee which probed government's response to 26/11 terror attacks.
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a petition challenging the Delhi High Court's recent ruling legalising gay sex among consenting adults.On July 9, a two-judge bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice K G Balkrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam had issued a notice to the central government, asking it to explain its stand on a petition challenging the Delhi HC's ruling.The apex court was hearing a plea filed by astrologer Suresh Kumar Kaushal against the HC's verdict.
In the first of its kind, an open public hearing into the encounter killings will be held in Gujarat on May 14-15 by the National Human Rights Commission.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, however, issued notices to state of Maharashtra, returnable by three weeks, on a petition filed by Ibrahim Musa Chauhan.
The former chief minister was expelled from the House on September 3, 2008, for "breach of privilege" after a resolution was passed on the basis of the report of a special committee appointed by the Punjab assembly on the alleged irregularities.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted the hearing on the Centre's plea, to go ahead with the Sethusamudram project, for April 29.The Centre had, on February 29, filed a fresh affidavit in the apex court seeking clearance to go ahead with the Sethusamudram project on the same alignment, saying issues of faith cannot be resolved through scientific evidence.The affidavit had sought the vacation of the apex court's interim orders directing not to damage the Ram Sethu.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran also issued notices to the CBI on the bail applications of four other convicts in the case. The apex court stayed the death sentences of Mohammed Mushtaq Moosa Tarani and Asgar Yusuf Mukadam.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the state governments on the controversial issue of appointment of tainted persons as ministers.
The Supreme Court has strongly deplored the practice of banks and financial institutions using 'goondas' and musclemen to recover loans from alleged defaulters.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by two private schools managements challenging the ban imposed by the Delhi high court on interviews of nursery kids and their parents at the time of admissions.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop construction work on the Sardar Sarovar project, even as the Gujarat government said the work on the dam during monsoon will not go beyond 119 metres.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain the plea of Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy seeking reconstitution of the expert committee to review the Sethusamudram project.
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case to appeal against their conviction and sentence without filing the copy of the impugned judgment of the TADA court. The exemption from filing the certified copy of the TADA court judgment was granted when the petitioner pleaded before the apex court that it would not be possible to file the appeals soon, as it will take time to get the copies of the judgment typed and photocopied.
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of reservation for backward classes in rural and urbal local bodies on Tuesday, including posts of chairpersons, and rejected the plea that the creamy layer should be excluded.
Non governmental organisations seeking curbs on circulation of the Nanavati Commission report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi in the Godhra train carnage and subsequent riots got a setback as the Supreme Court on Monday disagreed that there was illegality in submitting an interim report.
K G Bhaskaran, younger brother of former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, who was facing allegations of amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, on Friday resigned as special government pleader in the Kerala high court.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran sought a response from the state government after the former Bollywood actress claimed that she would not get a fair trial in Bhopal.
"If it has been approved by the government, this court cannot interfere," a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said, when an application seeking to maintain the status quo on the works was mentioned before it.
Attorney General Milon K Banerji stated that the issue was of public interest as overwhelming number of students lose an academic year if an early date was not fixed.
The RMM contented that a political party cannot be headed by a person who has assumed citizenship by registration.
Additional Solictor General Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the union government, said there cannot be blanket legislation for providing protection to witnesses.
The Tamil Nadu assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution urging the Centre to extend the benefits accorded to Scheduled Castes also to those among the SCs embracing Christianity.
The 13 who have been disqualified were the ones who first broke away from the BSP to lend support to the Mulayam Singh government.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Manu Sharma, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Jessica Lal murder case by the Delhi High Court. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, however, listed Sharma's appeal against his conviction for hearing on January 22, 2008.
The Supreme Court, on Friday, will pronounce its verdict on the nation's most talked corporate battle over gas supply, outcome of which will shape the future of flagship energy firms run by brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani.
A fresh petition seeking a probe into alleged amassing of wealth by relatives of former chief justice of India and National Human Rights Commission Chairman K G Balakrishnan has been posted for Friday by a special judge.An earlier petition filed by George Vattukulam, state president of Kerala Malayala Vedi (forum), came up before the court on Friday, which rejected it on technical grounds as there was no spare copy of the petition.
bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, however, said that Bedi shall not leave her native Hoshiarpur district.
A bench comprising Chief Justices K G Balakrishnan and justices R V Raveendran and L S Panta, however, sought replies from the Delhi and UP police on the plea of the accused.
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