A person cannot take oath in the name of any particular God or deity but merely affirm in the name of God or his own conscience.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta high court interim order restraining admissions under the 27 per cent Other Backward Classes quota in post-graduate courses, including in IIMs. The apex court said admissions in post-graduate courses in Central educational institutions will be provisional and will be subject to the outcome of the final order in the matter, pending before it.
Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd has promised "golden handshake" for the estimated 60,000 families living in the slums around the airport, who will be displaced for the airport's expansion.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, granted bail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was on Thursday allowed by the Supreme Court to go abroad for film shootings. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan directed him to return by September 30 and submit his passport with a court.
The apex court said there should not be any "hindrance" in holding the Ambedkar Jayanti function and temporary construction and renovation could be carried out by the state in Ambedkar Park. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan warned the state government against carrying out any permanent construction saying that the matter was pending before the Allahabad high court.
Terming the Tamil Nadu court violence as 'serious and sad', the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the state government to inform it by Thursday at whose instance the police had entered the Madras High Court premises on February 19, the day of the lawyer-police clash. "We want to know at whose instance the police was allowed to enter the premises of the High Court," a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging a law prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy in case of foetal abnormality.
Amidst the raging clamour for disclosure of assets by judges, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Friday made it clear that it was up to the judges to make public their wealth and it was not an issue of his willingness. The CJI said that the apex court judges would be meeting to discuss the issue but did not elaborate on when it would take place.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know the stand of the Centre referring a petition, challenging the constitutional validity of the amendment to the law on the Office of Profit, to a Constitution Bench.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass a direction for expediting the execution of death sentence of Mohmammad Afzal, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case.
Ghule and Vichare were arrested by the CBI on October 8, 2004 for their alleged involvement in the multi-crore stamp paper racket.
Senior advocate Indira Jaisinh, appearing for Gere, said the actor, who is scheduled to come to India in March, was ready to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday started the hearing for examining the constitutional validity of a POTA provision that binds courts to abide by the Review Committee's findings on the applicability of the anti-terror law, which is now defunct.
The Apex court, however, agreed to hear the Centre's application on other sealing-related matters on February 2.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan accepted the request of Additional Solicitor General R Mohan that the two weeks time granted to the Centre on January 16 to file the affidavits be extended by four weeks and posted the matter for hearing in the first week of March.
The proposed masterplan 2021 envisages mixed land use, which would cover all the roads protected under the notification.
"Why not straight away come to preliminary inquiry instead of scrutinising...," the bench observed, adding: "Instead of a comprehensive report, we should have the action taken report."
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan was hearing a petition moved by Reliance Power, promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, against the Jagrut Grahak Suraksha Mahila Mandal alleging that there was a 'malafide and illegal campaign by certain interested persons to stop or delay the IPO to be launched on January 15.'
The court dismissed a petition claiming oaths taken in the name of Allah were done so for publicity and were constitutionally invalid.
The RJD's counsel and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani told a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan that "merit based upon genetic accident is being concretised by a few marks in the examination. But merit cannot be the basis for entry into public services. Merit cannot be a benchmark".
A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and R V Raveendran said that in case the petitions could not be disposed off by the said date, the high court can pass an interim order on the issue.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan refused to give an early hearing to the petition filed by a Pune-based Ganesh mandal, which pleaded that noise level up to 40 decibels be allowed.
The pix was allegedly shot by a hidden camera when she was lodged in a Bhopal jail.
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for possessing illegal arms in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was on Monday granted interim bail by the Supreme Court.
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it had already come to the conclusion that the Ram Sethu doesn't fulfill the criteria for being declared a national monument."As far as we are concerned, the stand of the government is very clear that the Ram Sethu could not fulfil the criteria of a national monument," senior advocate Fali S Nariman, appearing for the Centre, told a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
Senior advocate Fali S Nariman mentioned the matter before a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which agreed to his plea for hearing Dutt's bail application on August 10
"If the court feels that the creamy layer be excluded and says so, the Centre will obey," Solicitor General G E Vahanvati said before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
In a major relief to Adani Group, the Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the stay order that stalled work at its Rs 7,400-crore (Rs 74 billion) multi-product Special Economic Zone in Gujarat.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear on July 31 the Centre's application seeking vacation of the stay on the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.
The application was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which decided to hear it on Tuesday.
The bench was fixing a date in July for hearing Manu's bail and appeal against his conviction and life sentence by the Delhi high court.
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed annoyance over the delay in providing relief to Narmada dam oustees saying the issue had not moved an inch forward in the last one year. "Today, the position is that we have not moved an inch forward," a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said referring to its April 23, 2007 order in which it had asked the Madhya Pradesh Government to clarify the factual position on relief and rehabilitation which was objected to by NBA.
Supreme Court has put a halt to proceedings against RPL in the Gujarat high court, following a PIL filed against Reliance Power's upcoming IPO.
It also questioned the motive behind filing the PIL and asked the petitioner to file the detailed of the land owner's who have been affected by the acquisition.
The court said it will hear all appeals filed by the convicts along with that of Dutt next Tuesday and apply the same parameter for granting bail. The court asked the CBI to provide in tabular form the offence and sentences awarded to different convicts.
The bench, however, dismissed a PIL filed by an 81-year-old freedom fighter, Salemvelu Gandhi alias Velu, from Tamil Nadu who sought a complete ban on "caste disclosure" forms circulated by schools to students during admissions.
A Students Federation of India (SFI) activist was stabbed to death at the Idukki Engineering College here on Monday, allegedly by Youth Congress activists, police said.
Actor Sanjay Dutt will have to wait for the Supreme Court to hear his bail plea. The apex court clarified on Thursday that it would not be hearing Dutt's plea on Friday.
Senior advocate K T S Tulsi contended that Salem was not extradited from Portugal under charges of conspiracy in the Jain murder and, therefore, he could not be framed on that count.
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