The Madras High Court has reserved its order on an appeal filed by the CBFC, challenging a single judge's direction to grant a censor certificate to the Tamil film 'Jana Nayagan'. The case involves disputes over the film's content and the process of obtaining certification.
The Madras High Court has reserved its order on a petition seeking a direction to the CBFC to grant a censor certificate to the Vijay starrer film 'Jana Nayagan'. The court considered arguments regarding the review process and complaints about the film's content.
The country's two top law officers Attorney General Goolam Essaji Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran have tendered their resignations following the change in the government at the Centre.
Upset since appointment of Rohinton Nariman as the solicitor general of India last July from outside the hierarchy, Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran has turned down the government's offer to renew his contract.
With the Presidential nomination of legal luminary K Parasaran -- a decision by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- the Rajya Sabha has now four Iyengar Vaishnavites, beginning from Jairam Ramesh, Dr V Maitreyan and Communist Party of India-Marxist MP T K Rangarajan.
Besides the present CJI Chandrachud, former CJIs Ranjan Gogoi and SA Bobde and former judges Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer were part of the bench which had delivered the historic verdict on November 9, 2019.
Ram Temple Trust general secretary Champat Rai said that the decision was taken in the recently held meeting of the members.
During the hearing, the 92-year-old senior lawyer had told the apex court that it must do 'full and complete justice' in all matters before it and that his last wish before he died was to finish the case.
'The burden of proof is on Muslim parties to show that this finding, that the mosque was built on land held sacred by Hindus, is wrong'
The government on Wednesday named nine out of 15 members of the 'Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra' trust constituted for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as mandated by the Supreme Court. Here's all you need to know about the members of the trust who have been named so far.
Solicitor General of India Mohan Parasaran has asked the Centre to re-impose the President's Rule in the state, and the dissolution of the Andhra Pradesh assembly to avoid a constitutional crisis. Parasaran has said that there was no need of summoning both Houses of Parliament to endorse the President's Rule in Andhra.
The members include senior lawyer K Parasaran, Jagatguru Shankracharya, Jyothishpeethadheeshwar Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj from Allahabad, Jagatguru Madhavacharya Swami Vishwa Prasannatheerth Ji Maharaj, Pejawar Math in Udupi, Yugpurush Paramanand Ji Maharaj from Haridwar, Swami Govinddev Giri Ji Maharaj from Pune and Vimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra from Ayodhya.
The Supreme Court, which quashed the controversial skin-to-skin judgment of the Bombay high court in a case under the POCSO Act, said on Thursday that this was the second instance where the attorney general filed an appeal on the criminal side challenging a high court order.
They also termed as 'unwarranted' and 'unfortunate', the submission of Muslim parties that the archaeological report be trashed.
The Aam Aadmi Party government's plans to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill in a public venue next week faced fresh hurdles with Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran insisting that Lt Governor's prior approval is necessary while key ally Congress toughened its opposition.
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das was elected president and Champat Rai general secretary of the Ram Temple trust at its first meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday.
'Coupled with e-filing procedures it would really enhance the ability of the judiciary to provide speedier justice.'
Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, the spokesperson of Trust's president Nritya Gopal Das said, "We have suggested two auspicious dates -- August 3 and 5 -- for the prime minister's visit based on calculations of movements of stars and planets."
The former CJI said the statements made by the individual do not mean that entire institution has crumbled.
Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran was replying to the charges made by the parliamentarian Gurudas Dasgupta and Common Cause, a public interest organisation
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday on Tuesday contended before the Delhi high court that former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala was the "main conspirator" in the junior basic trained teachers' recruitment scam of 2000.
The top court issued notices to Union ministries of law and justice and minority affairs as well as the National Commission of Women after taking note of the plea of Delhi-based woman Nafisa Khan challenging the practice of polygamy and 'nikah halala', and said that the matter will be taken up a five-judge Constitution bench.
Lt Governor Najib Jung had sought Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran's as to whether the introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly without sending the legislative proposal to the Central government is in consonance with the transaction of Business of the GNCT of Delhi Rules, 1993, and also as to whether the proposal involves any constitutional infraction.
The Andhra Pradesh government will file an appeal either in the Supreme Court or before the Krishna River Water Disputes Tribunal on March 29 against the tribunal's award over allocation of water from Krishna river to the state. The government will convene an all-party meeting on March 22 to discuss the state's strategy to contest justice Brijesh Kumar tibunal's award that is unfavourable to the state's interests.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea to stay Centre's poll-eve notification to include the Jat community in the OBC list for providing the benefits of reservation, saying there is prima facie material for taking the decision.
Unfazed by the solicitor general's opinion, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he would write to the Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on plans to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill without the Centre's concurrence.
The apex court ruled on August 12 that the Centre give away foodgrain to the hungry and poor, instead of allowing it to rot in Food Corporation of India godowns.
The BJP is still short of the halfway mark of 123 in the 245-member House, but can now muster a 'working' majority with help of allies, friendly parties, some Independents and nominated members.
In a relief to Jallikattu supporters, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the new legislation passed recently by the Tamil Nadu assembly but warned the state government not to allow commotion on the streets, reminding that law and order was its prime duty.
The Supreme Court made it clear on Tuesday that it had ordered free distribution of foodgrains to the poor instead of allowing it to rot and rejected Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's contention that it was a suggestion which cannot be implemented.
With Parliament's winter session is to begin on November 18, the Union home and law ministries want to complete the process of formation of the board of trustees in time, reports R Rajagopalan.
The government on Tuesday opened its arguments in the high-voltage gas row between the Ambani brothers in the Supreme Court asserting that any understanding reached between them was not binding on it as gas was not their "private property".
The petroleum ministry has sought expansion of the legal team that is to argue the government's stand on the gas dispute between the Ambani brothers before the Supreme Court beginning next week.
Government's counsel Mohan Parasaran has said he was left out of the details of a special leave petition filed by petroleum ministry in Supreme Court seeking annulment of a family MoU between Mukesh and Anil Ambani group firms on gas supply.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation in the disproportionate assets case against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. The apex court said that the CBI was acting at the behest of the central government.
The high court is hearing a dispute between Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources over a gas sale agreement, in which the government has intervened. NTPC has filed a separate suit against RIL, seeking that RIL execute the contract of gas supply.
Commenting on the EGoM decision regarding supply of KG gas to upcoming power projects, RIL counsel Harish Salve said, "Government has no right to allocate gas." He clarified that his client was opposed to this stand of the government.
The high court court on Thursday accepted Nokia's appeal to release its local factory after its seizure by authorities in a tax dispute, removing a hurdle for the sale of the company's mobile phone business to Microsoft.
The Enforcement Directorate has managed to sniff out over Rs 9,000 crore as suspected haul from money laundering in a decade, but it has yet to link those against anyone successfully in a court.
His second term as solicitor general was renewed recently.
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