'If ever annoyed, Dilip Kumar openly spoke out his mind.' 'He abhorred abusive language and never expected it from others around him.'
Mehta told Justice Suresh Kait that convict Pawan Gupta's move of not filing a curative or a mercy petition is a deliberate, calculated inaction.
The apex court, which dismissed the review pleas filed by three of the four death row convicts of the sensational December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, said the courts cannot be held for committing any illegality in awarding capital punishment in "appropriate cases" till death penalty remains in the penal code.
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
An Indian-origin law student has sued Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the US Justice Department claiming she was unlawfully questioned and her cell phone confiscated after she sent letters to the presiding judge during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday sought the Centre's response on a plea challenging the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which seeks to regulate digital news media.
Lavasa would soon be joining the Asian Development Bank as vice president
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Friday the Centre's appeal challenging the Delhi high court's verdict dismissing its plea against stay on the execution of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
With no agenda announced for the meeting, the leaders from Jammu and Kashmir said they have come with an open mind.
Bano had earlier refused to accept the offer of Rs 5 lakh and had sought exemplary compensation from the state government in a plea before the top court.
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney convened a roundtable discussion in Toronto with members of Air India victims' families on June 18, a day after Justice John Major released his 4,000-page report.
The death row convicts moved a Delhi court with a plea to adjourn the execution 'sine die' saying they are yet to avail their remaining legal remedies.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted three persons sentenced to varying jail terms for tampering with evidence in the infamous 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, involving former Naval chief Admiral S M Nanda's grandson Sanjeev Nanda.
The state govt said that celibate status of deity cannot be a ground for barring entry of women.
Seeking an interim stay on the high court order, Joshi's petition said it was the top court's duty to ensure that all constitutional authorities act within the 'Lakshman rekha' drawn for each one of them.
You aren't dealing with a normal, civilised, law. The NDPS Act, in its preconditions for bail, and insistence on evidence of innocence rather than guilt, is worse than UAPA. Imagine yourself or your child at the other end of this, observes Shekhar Gupta.
It is also for the first time ever that so many Indian-Americans have been roped into a presidential administration ever before the inauguration. Biden, a Democrat, is still quite far away from filling all the positions in his administration.
Rupa Gurunath, the first woman president of a BCCI affiliated unit, is a full-time Director of India Cements Limited (ICL). She has been found guilty of indirect conflict of interest for ICL's close association with Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKCL).
A petition filed by Vishwa Hindu Parishad against Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's "Hindu terror" remarks was dismissed by the Allahabad high court on Tuesday.
Advocate M L Sharma said one of his clients, Mukesh Singh, was implicated in the case.
The Amicus Curae in the PILs seeking a Central Bureau of Invstigation's probe into the chit fund scam on Tuesday told the Calcutta high court that there was no need for one at this stage and that the state investigation agency be allowed to continue its investigations.
Former judge of the Rajasthan high court Justice Sajjan Singh Kothari was on Monday sworn in as Lokayukta.
The All India Tennis Association formed a three-member committee, including Justice Deepak Verma and former Davis Cupper Naresh Kumar, to resolve the issues with the rebel players, but its suggestions apparently would not be binding on the national tennis federation.
The hopes of Lokesh Sharma and Devender Gupta, the two Abhinav Bharat activists accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case in Hyderabad, of coming out of jail have shattered as the Andhra Pradesh high court has rejected their bail petition.
The inquiry by will not deal with the allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI.
'Are you an eye witness? There is some sanctity attached to the investigation'
A bench of the NGT, headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, directed that the order will also apply to all cities and towns in the country where the average of ambient air quality during November (as per available data of last year) falls under 'poor' or worse category.
The bench, comprising acting Chief Justice S S Saron and Justices Surya Kant and Avneesh Jhingan, directed that no FIR registered by the two states during the episode shall be cancelled without the permission of the high court.
The appointment of former judge of Allahabad High Court Justice Virendra Singh as Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta was on Saturday put on hold after the Supreme Court held a special sitting on a holiday and posed embarrassing questions to the Samajwadi Party government, which was accused of concealing facts and "playing fraud".
The execution of death warrants of these convicts have been deferred thrice so far due to delays by them in exhausting their legal remedies.
The top court directed the Maharashtra government to place before it the material which was collected during the investigation against Navlakha and placed before the high court in a sealed cover.
The apex court said this while dealing with pleas regarding Uttarakhand government's September 5, 2012 decision to fill up all posts in public services in the state without providing reservations to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The SC agreed to hear next week a review plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking further increase in random matching of VVPAT
'Blanket protection to MLAs, who are driven not by ideology but by far baser concerns, is unheard-of'
A curative petition is the last and final judicial remedy available to a person convicted by courts of law.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana on Thursday refused to grant any relief to Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh and rejected the petition saying no valid ground has been brought to his notice to justify the stay of execution of death warrants scheduled on March 20 at 5:30 am.
'We always know on whose house the raid was conducted, and how much money was recovered.' 'We never know what happens inside when the raid is going on.'
Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd (FRL) on Monday said it is "reviewing" the Delhi high court order that has rejected its plea to restrain Amazon from writing to regulatory authorities about the SIAC arbitral order against its asset sale under a Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance. FRL, in a regulatory filing, said it would submit a brief summary after consultation with legal advisors.
Union ministers and opposition parties' leaders have condemned the assault on students and teachers of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Akshay moves SC, saying death penalty entails 'cold blooded killing'. The SC has already rejected review pleas of 3 other convicts.
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