The court asked them to surrender once they get a copy of the judgment of the special court, which convicted them.
A Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Lokeshwar Singh Panta directed the states and Union territories to file there responses within eight weeks.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed till further orders the trial in Professor H S Sabharwal murder case.
A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P P Naolekar while reserving its verdict said it would pass a "reasoned order", after the petitioner Ashok Pandey, who is an advocate, pleaded that the matter be referred to a larger bench.
A Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and D K Jain said that Raj Thackeray can approach the concerned high court for appropriate remedy following which his counsel preferred to withdraw the petition.
The bench has fixed May 28 for hearing of the writ petition filed by Dandi Swami Vidyananda Bharti and others.
The Supreme Court asked on Thursday market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India and some stock brokers to file written submissions in a case relating to modification of penalty imposed on intermediaries.
'Physical violence is not absolutely essential to constitute cruelty and a consistent course of conduct inflicting immeasurable mental agony and torture may well constitute cruelty within the meaning of Section 10 of the Act'.
The Dera had approached the apex court last Friday after the Akal Takht, the highest religious body of Sikhs, served an ultimatum to the Punjab government to close down all Deras in the state by May 27.
A Bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice D K Jain said there was no urgency in the matter for early hearing.
The court also wanted to know from the government as to what safety measures it proposed to take for protecting the workers who have to discharge the function of ship breaking.
The Supreme Court on Monday favoured setting up of designated courts for the trial of the accused in the post-Godhra riot cases in Gujarat. A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat asked the state government and senior advocate Harish Salve, who is assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the matter, to place before it suggestions in this regard by Monday.
The petitioner raised the issue of the death of a patient in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi during the recent anti-quota stir.
The Supreme Court today directed the central government to release the salary of doctors who participated in the recent anti-quota stir in New Delhi
Best Bakery key witness Zaheera Sheikh, who was handed down a one-year imprisonment by the Supreme Court for committing contempt by lying before it, Monday moved the apex court seeking reduction of her sentence.
The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction by the special court at Mumbai of stock broker Harshad Mehta, who died during the pendency of the appeal in the Apex court.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed over the investigation of the Uttar Pradesh provident fund scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The names of some judges from the higher judiciary, including one from the apex court, have cropped up in connection to the scam.The apex court granted three months time to the investigating agency to place the status report relating to the probe in the case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the interim custody of 20-day-old surrogate baby Manji, granted to her Japanese grandmother Yamada, till September 16.A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma granted two weeks time to non governmental organisation Satya to explain its locus standi for seeking custody of the child.The NGO had sought custody of the child on the ground that Manji was an abandoned child and Yamada had no right over her.
A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat, while fixing the date for final disposal on October 21, extended the undertaking given by developer B Jeejeebhoy Vakharia and Associates asking it not to create any third party rights till then. Earlier, the court had sought reply from the builder and others.
A rape convict who shares his name with former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru left the Supreme Court frowning on Wednesday. The apex court observed that such culprits had no right to share names with exalted national leaders.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to soft drink major Coca Cola on an application by Perumatty Panchayat in Kerala
A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and J M Panchal refused to interfere with the Madras High Court judgment upholding the validity of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act of 2006. The bench dismissed a bunch of petitions from the Kanyakumari District Malayala Samajam and others challenging the law. It said it couldn't interfere with the policy decision of the state and cited similar laws in Karnataka and Maharashtra, making Kanada and Marathi as a compulsory subject.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the date of birth of a person entered in a horoscope can never be given primacy over the date of birth mentioned in his school leaving certificate.
Shree Kant Shekari had earlier managed to get a reprieve from the Himachal Pradesh high court.
A report will be submitted to the honourable court taking every aspect of the violent incidents that rocked the state for six days.
The significant observation was made by a vacation bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and D K Jain.
The bench had made it clear that it was not averse to referring the matter to a Constitution bench.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Delhi Police Commissioner K K Paul to personally appear before it on Wednesday for failing to provide adequate police protection for the sealing drive in the capital.
The Supreme Court had previously stayed sealing.
The court by its February 12 order had halted the sealing drive on 2183 roads notified for mixed land use under the new master plan for Delhi 2021.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed that there will be no sealing in premises on roads covered under the Master Plan of Delhi 2021 till further orders.
'It would be adding insult to injury to tell a woman that her claim of rape would not be believed unless it is corroborated in material particulars as in the case of an accomplice to a crime'.
The Supreme Court said the President and governors have to keep in mind the effect of such pardon on the family of the victim.
The Supreme Court today lifted the stay on trial of 2002 Gujarat riots cases and directed the setting up of fast track courts for holding it on a day-to-day basis. The apex court ordered the setting up of designated courts for riot cases in Ahmedabad, Anand, Sabarkanta, Mehsana and Gulbarga districts.
A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat refused to give relief to Deccan Aviation, which had sought stay on a Delhi high court order. The high court had asked it to pay litigation expenses of Rs 50,000 to a passenger in addition to about Rs 33,000 by way of difference in fares and compensation, as ruled by consumer courts earlier.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to soft drinks major Coca-Cola on a Kerala government plea
Taking a grim view of the increasing rape cases in the country, the Supreme Court has ruled that testimony of the victim, if convincing, is sufficient to convict an accused even if there is no medical evidence to support the charge.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed K G Menon, a senior advocate from Mumbai, to assist the Special Investigation Team (SIT) earlier constituted by it for a fresh probe or further investigations into 14 post Godhra riot cases.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred the trial of Professor H S Sabharwal murder case from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh to Nagpur in Maharashtra. A Bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat also directed that the public prosecutor be changed in the case.
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