The apex court had earlier dismissed a similar plea, which made identical allegations filed by advocate Kamini Jaiswal.
The order to suspend the services was issued by the home affairs and justice department and heavy police security was deployed at the site of the clashes outside the Kali Mata temple in Patiala.
A bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao also directed the central bank to review its policy to disclose information relating to banks under RTI, saying "it is duty bound under the law".
It said it was not convinced with the grounds of the CBI to condone over 4,500 days' delay in filing the appeal. The CBI had filed the appeal on February 2 this year.
The order will be passed by a five-judge Constitution bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices NV Ramana, DY Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna on a petition filed by a Supreme Court Secretary-General challenging the January 2010 judgment of the Delhi high court.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant interim protection from arrest to Ali Abbas Zafar, director of the web series Tandav, and others seeking the quashing of FIRs against them for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Hindus, and issued notices Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states on their pleas.
It was the relentless pursuit of justice over a decade by a group of senior citizens that resulted in the Supreme Court's order for demolition of the illegal 40-storey twin towers of a real estate group in Noida.
India has extradited to the US a man accused by the Florida police of murdering his 20-year- old niece.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, which started the day-to-day proceedings on August 6 after mediation proceedings failed to find an amicable solution to the vexatious dispute, has revised the deadline for wrapping up the proceedings and has fixed it on October 17.
The draft witness protection scheme, finalised in consultation with the National Legal Services Authority, has three categories of witnesses based on the threat perception.
Here is the chronology of Supreme Court hearings in the right to privacy case.
The bench on October 16 had reserved the judgment after marathon hearing of 40 days.
The Supreme Court is hearing writ petitions challenging the dissolution of the Bihar assembly.
The Bench will hear questions pertaining to freedom of press arising from the arrest warrants issued last year by the Tamil Nadu assembly speaker against the editor and senior journalists of The Hindu newspaper.
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 Uttarakhand high court on Thursday granted bail to yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna, nearly a month after he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a case pertaining to fake documents. After hearing the bail application, a single judge bench of Justice Tarun Agrawal granted bail to Balkrishna.
He is seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the incident.
Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab and Puducherry took a stand opposite to the Central government which had said that Right to Privacy is a common law right and not a Fundamental Right.
The Uttarakhand high court on Friday stayed the arrest of yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna, charged with procuring fake educational certificates, and asked him to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation on August 3.
The top court, however, granted liberty to all candidates to approach the West Bengal State Election Commission for appropriate relief.
The court said a petition has already been admitted in this regard.
The CBI had moved the trial court seeking permission for further probe in the matter saying it had come across fresh material and evidence.
The godman wants to examine his sole defence witness and former US congressman Mervin Dymally through a videoconference in the Lakhubhai Pathak case.
The Madras high court on Tuesday issued notices to the government and the Central Bureau of Investigation on a petition seeking extradition of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam operative Kumaran Padmanabhan, one of the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, from Sri Lanka.
The court was angry that the government showed little will to stop encroachment on the banks of the river Yamuna leading to its pollution
The Supreme Court Friday stayed a death sentence awarded to a guide for killing a woman tourist from New Zealand at Varanasi in 1997.
"The affidavit (of the UP Government) is not satisfactory," a bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal and Aftab Alam observed.
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 Monday sought the response of key shareholders in Dabhol Power Corporation -- subsidiaries of GE and Bechtel -- on restarting the litigation-embroiled plant
A lawyer, who had sought a direction from the Supreme Court for a CBI probe into Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's alleged proxy stake in the Kochi IPL franchisee, on Thursday withdrew his petition.
The Supreme Court on Monday admitted an appeal filed by Enron promoted Dabhol Power Corporation challenging a Bombay high court order
A Division Bench of Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice B N Agrawal dismissed the convicts' appeals against the special TADA court's order.
The power plant of DPC is likely to remain idle for some more time as the Supreme Court's initiative to restart it met a roadblock with key shareholders of DPC -- subsidiaries of GE and Bechtel -- refusing to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court order is considered to be a setback to state Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav who had scrapped nine districts and commissioner divisions created during 1995-97 by Mayawati government.
It also made the EC a party to a petition filed by former Rajya Sabha member Kuldeep Nayar challenging recent amendments to the election procedure.
The Supreme Court has said that the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, including the rules related to pictorial warning on cigarette and tobacco products, will be implemented from May 31 and there will be no further extensions. The court further stated that in view of this promise, no court in the country shall pass any order inconsistent with this order.
The Supreme Court on Mondaycame down heavily on the Mayawati government of Uttar Pradesh for constructing memorials despite its order and warned the state that it cannot play politics as it does with other parties.
Telling the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh that "you are playing with fire", the Supreme Court today directed stoppage of all further construction activities at the Kanshi Ram Memorial Sthal in Lucknow, saying its orders cannot be violated.
The bench says discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to the dignity of an individual.
This will be specially helpful when people involved in the case live abroad.
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