In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President.
The court said not auctioning even 0.1 per cent of spectrum, for which licenses were cancelled, will not be acceptable
The apex court was hearing two separate petitions filed by Chidambaram challenging the Delhi high court August 20 verdict by which his anticipatory bail was dismissed in the cases registered by both the agencies-- CBI and ED.
The government on Wednesday clarified its stand on homosexuality before the Supreme Court, saying it is in favour of decriminalisation of gay sex and the Delhi high court verdict is acceptable to it.
2G: SC stays proceedings in all high court cases
Homosexuality is not a mental and psychological disorder and it is a normal form of sexuality, gay rights activists argued before the Supreme Court on Thursday while pleading for decriminalization of gay sex. They told a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya that decriminalisation of homosexuality would remove the stigma on them.
"List it for hearing on Thursday," said the bench, which also comprised Justice B R Gavai and Justice Surya Kant.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took exception to Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's reported statement that putting businessmen behind bars will hamper investments in the country, saying if true it is "disturbing".
The ED told the apex court that during the investigation it found Chidambaram had 11 'immovable properties' and 17 bank accounts abroad and his custodial interrogation was required to unearth the larger conspiracy in the case.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the opinion of its Constitution bench on the Presidential Reference arising out of its 2G Spectrum judgement will not have "undoing" impact on the verdict by which the allocation of 122 licences were cancelled.
In a huge relief to Finance Minister P Chidambaram, the Supreme Court dismissed a plea for making him a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case, saying there was no prima facie material against him of any criminal conspiracy or procuring of any pecuniary gain.
Activist Anna Hazare on Saturday blamed Rahul Gandhi for encouraging Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, chairman of the Standing Committee of Law and Justice, Public Grievances and Personnel, for overlooking the letter written by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to furnish details of the number of mercy petitions disposed off by the President in 2011, besides other petitions pending with the government for the past several years.
The summons was issued by the US Eastern District Court of New York after a rights group -- Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) -- and two victims of the riots filed a complaint before it.
After a marathon hearing spanning over a month, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions challenging the Delhi high court verdict decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults in private.
Pulling up the Centre for its "casual" approach on the important issue of decriminalisation of homosexuality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said it needs to be condemned. After going through various affidavits of the government, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay said the Centre has taken this case very casually.
Expressing displeasure for not furnishing details of the homosexual population in India , the Supreme Court on Thursday asked for all relevant records from the Centre about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people, including their number and the number of HIV-infected among them.
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its judgments on the petitions seeking a direction for a probe into the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam. It will also pronounce its verdict on ther cancellation of 122 radiowave licences granted during the tenure of A Raja as telecom minister.
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its judgements on the petitions seeking a direction for a probe into the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in 2G spectrum scam and for cancellation of 122 radiowave licences granted during the tenure of A Raja as telecom minister.
Telecom regulator TRAI's report purportedly assessing zero loss in 2G spectrum allocation during the tenure of former Telecom Minister A Raja on Wednesday came under sharp criticism of the Supreme Court which questioned the functioning of the autonomous body.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave bail to former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested last year on February 2 for his alleged role in the 2G case, and also upheld the bail granted to former Telecom Minister A Raja's ex-Private Secretary R K Chandolia by the trial court.
The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the life sentence of Communist Party of India-Maoist activist Narayan Sanyal, held guilty of committing sedition by a Chhattisgarh court in 2010, and granted bail to him.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to adjudicate itself the pleas of Rajiv Gandhi's killers against their death penalty. A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi directed that their petitions, pending with the Madras high court, be sent to it and listed the case for hearing on July 10.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi further said Karnataka assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar was free to decide on the resignations of the rebel legislators within the time-frame decided by him.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant 400 days to the government to complete the process of fresh auctioning of the 2G spectrum licences but extended the deadline for it from June 2 to August 31, 2012.
The Supreme Court has granted bail to five corporate executives in 2G spectrum case.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that it would pass orders for creating special courts to try agitators blocking rail and road traffic as they paralyse normal public activities resulting in untold hardships to people.
The Supreme Court on Monday refrained from passing any order on a PIL filed against Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal accusing him of reducing a penalty amount favouring Anil Ambani-headed Reliance Communications, saying persons aggrieved can avail remedy under the law.
Besides issuing notices to Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which is spearheading the stir, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S Mukhopadhaya also issued notices to the registrar general of the high court and the state bar council and sought their replies on the plea.
The Supreme Court will examine a batch of pending public interest litigations urging it to restrain the Centre from carving out a separate Telangana state on Friday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took serious note of unauthorised phone tapping by private telecom companies and sought Centre's response on the action taken against Reliance Infocom for intercepting politician Amar Singh's telephone five years ago.
Observing that there are "definite and proved" allegations that complaints of the victims of violence in the aftermath of the West Bengal assembly polls were not even registered, the Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into all alleged cases of heinous crimes like rape and murder, while accepting the recommendations of a National Human Rights Commission panel.
Police said the 79-year old Kerala-based seer Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru died at the Edaneer Mutt in Kasaragod due to age related ailments. The case in which Bharati had challenged a Kerala Land Reform Act nearly four decades ago set the principle that the Supreme Court is the guardian of the basic structure of the Constitution and the verdict involved 13 judges the largest bench ever to sit in the apex court.
The corporate honchos who are behind bars for their alleged involvement in the 2G scam will have to celebrate Diwali in jail as the Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing on their bail pleas to Octocer 31.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the alleged excesses and violence unleashed by the Uttar Pradesh government on farmers protesting against "forcible" acquisition of land at Bhatta Parsaul.
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on the plea of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy and lawyer Prashant Bhushan's request to probe the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam. The plea of Swamy was countered by senior advocates of government and the Central Bureau of Investigation, both before a bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to direct the Central Board of Secondary Education to conduct a fresh All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which was mired in controversy after its question papers were leaked.
The group approached the apex court after being asked by Delhi high court to seek a clarification whether the special court can conduct a trial of companies which are not charged under the PCA in the case arising out of the probe in the 2G spectrum scam case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted its gag order on the media, restraining it from broadcasting and publishing contents of the taped conversations of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with top politicians and Bollywood stars.A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly dismissed Singh's petition and vacated its interim order passed on February 27, 2006 restraining the media from making contents of the conversation public.
The Centre on Friday took a stand different from the Central Bureau of Investigation and opposed the monitoring of the investigations into the 2G spectrum case by the Supreme Court which said that concept of supervising the probe evolved as a result of corruption in high offices and weakening of the conventional method.
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