The Supreme Court collegium has decided to drop its recommendation for elevating Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing charges of land grabbing, to the apex court, bringing to end months of controversy over the move. The collegium led by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and including Justice S H Kapadia, Tarun Chatterjee, Altamas Kabir and R V Raveendran, met on Thursday evening and decided to take back the recommendation for his elevation.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking judicial inquiry against former chief justice of India Y K Sabharwal.
Court gives Sebi two weeks to explain why it rejected a report on IPO scam.
The Supreme Court upheld the Constitutional validity of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development scheme under which members of Parliament are allocated Rs 2 crore annually for development of their constituencies.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to all the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking to restore against them the stringent charge of culpable homicide, which attracts a maximum punishment of 10 years' jail term.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of courts' powers to order Central Bureau of Investigation probe without the consent of state governments, with a rider that this should be used cautiously and sparingly.
The Supreme Court today issued a fresh notice to a convent school in Madhya Pradesh on a Muslim student's right to sport a beard.
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear a public interest litigation seeking exemption of the operation of the 'creamy layer' rule within the Other Backward Classes for persons engaged in hereditary occupations.
During the hearing, the NGO said the beneficiaries of the rule were former chief ministers of all parties.
The GCA at its Special General Body meeting held in Porvorim on Sunday adopted the resolution with 86 votes in its favour while one member cricket club voted against it.
While delivering the judgment on Thursday, Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, who rejected the contention that 10+2 should be the criteria to determine educational backwardness, did not dwell any further on the issue. However, three other judges -- Justices Arijit Pasayat, C K Thakker and Dalveer Bhandari -- held that a person ceases to be educationally backward after graduation.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that the charges under Prevention of Terrorism Act against 134 accused in the 2002 Godhra train burning incident in Gujarat shall be dropped and the trial can resume against all the accused under the provisions of the IPC.
The West Bengal government has denied before the Supreme Court all allegations regarding the reported excesses committed by the state administration in Nandigram where 14 people were killed in police firing in March last year.
The court imposed restraining orders on the transfers sought asking the the holders to file their reply within two weeks.
The provision neither dealt with the power of courts nor it did specifically take away the power of courts to take on record written statements filed beyond the time provided for, the court said.
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.
Badal and his family members are facing trial under the Prevention of Corruption Act for acquiring assets disproportionate to their known sources of income by misusing their official status. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Mr justice R V Raveendran, however, refused to stay the trial.
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 high court had in 2005 disqualified the legislator on a petition filed by one S S Bagali under the Representation of People's Act.
The notices came after a petition challenging an amendment that a Member of Parliament or state legislature would not be disqualified from being a member even after being convicted in a criminal case.\n
The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the seven-member committee from opening vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which according to various estimates contains wealth worth over Rs 1 lakh crore.
The Supreme Court Monday transferred to itself all writ petitions filed in the Delhi high court by 10 members of Parliament challenging their expulsion from Parliament in the cash-for-query scam.
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.
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.
"Justice Lodha & his team must be complimented for exhaustive document on Indn Cricket. Now how it's implemented remains to be seen," Bedi tweeted. "Indian brain can't b taken lightly-it's known to find loopholes not plug 'em! Let's wait for BCCI's reply! For now many rats will hide understandably," he added.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the vault 'B' of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple will be opened only after substantial work regarding documentation and preservation of assets unearthed from other 'kalaras' (vaults) of the shrine is completed.
Terming it as misconceived, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking CBI inquiry into the circumstances in which Finance Minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini was engaged as a counsel in tax cases involving huge revenue.
Traffic Ramaswamy alleged that the statement made by Karunanidhi was aimed at scandalising the court and denigrate the judiciary.
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the minimum eligibility percentage for admission in central universities for OBC category should be at most 10 per cent less than that of general category students.
The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed a five-member expert committee to supervise the unearthing and preservation of assets of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala. The committee will be headed by Director General of National Museum C V Ananda Bose and will also consist of representatives of the Archaeological Survey of India and the Reserve Bank of India.
The court also barred the observer, supervising the unearthing of the temple's treasure, from giving any interview about the process, saying the matter is related to the state.
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 on Monday sought response from the Centre and the state governments on the controversial issue of appointment of tainted persons as ministers.
Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were suspended from the Indian Premier League for two years for betting activities of their key officials, Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra, during the 2013 season of cash-rich Twenty20 cricket tournament.
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.
The Supreme Court on Friday said tradition and customs would be protected as far as possible in providing overall security to the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala.
Holding that trainees are not employees, the Supreme Court has ruled that they are not entitled to provident fund.\n\n
The RMM contented that a political party cannot be headed by a person who has assumed citizenship by registration.
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