Promising to examine the entire issue relating to the Sethusamudram project, the government sought three months' time from the court.
Senior advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the 92-year-old painter, submitted that six criminal cases were pending against him in various courts across the country and it would be appropriate that a general order be passed that, in future, any complaint against his artistic work will be transferred to Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted conditional permission to the Tamil Nadu government for holding the event of Jallikattu involving bulls during the Pongal festival.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan that despite the best efforts of the investigative agency it has failed to get the translated order.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the circulation of Justice G T Nanavati's report about the Godhra carnage in Gujarat.The NGO, Citizen for Justice and Peace, approached the apex court contending that a report by Justice U C Banerjee Committee on the same carnage has been stayed and a similar step should be taken for the Justice Nanavati Commission Report, which was tabled in the Gujarat assembly on Thursday.
"We are not going to pass any interim order," a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta high court interim order restraining admissions under the 27 per cent Other Backward Classes quota in post-graduate courses, including in IIMs. The apex court said admissions in post-graduate courses in Central educational institutions will be provisional and will be subject to the outcome of the final order in the matter, pending before it.
On April 24, the High Court had directed the EC to register a case against Jayalalithaa following a petition filed by DMK MP C Kuppuswamy alleging that AIADMK leader had suppressed facts and filed nominations from four Assembly constituencies.
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.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, granted bail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was on Thursday allowed by the Supreme Court to go abroad for film shootings. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan directed him to return by September 30 and submit his passport with a court.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought an unconditional apology from a private TV channel and its reporter for carrying out a sting operation allegedly showing corruption in the lower judiciary.
The apex court said there should not be any "hindrance" in holding the Ambedkar Jayanti function and temporary construction and renovation could be carried out by the state in Ambedkar Park. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan warned the state government against carrying out any permanent construction saying that the matter was pending before the Allahabad high court.
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.
The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered that suspended encounter specialist Daya Nayak should not be arrested till Friday, the day it will hear his plea seeking anticipatory bail in a case of disproportionate assets registered against him.
The apex court dismissed the plea stating that the matter was being looked into by the National Human Rights Commission.
The Supreme Court has restrained the West Bengal Police from executing an arrest warrant issued by a Darjeeling court against radio jockey Janardhan Nitin Brady, whose comments on Indian Idol Prashant Tamang sparked large-scale violence in Siliguri.
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it had already come to the conclusion that the Ram Sethu doesn't fulfill the criteria for being declared a national monument."As far as we are concerned, the stand of the government is very clear that the Ram Sethu could not fulfil the criteria of a national monument," senior advocate Fali S Nariman, appearing for the Centre, told a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
A jawan of the Border Security Force was killed and a farmer injured on Wednesday when Bangladesh Rifles troopers opened fire on them at Mirsultanpur village on the border in West Bengal's Malda district.BSF sources said a hail of bullets hit the 40-year-old border guard, Sudarshan K G, as the BDR resorted to unprovoked fire at 5.20 am, when he went to the border to relieve himself.The jawan of the 123 battalion died of his wounds on the way to Malda Sadar Hospital.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know the stand of the Centre referring a petition, challenging the constitutional validity of the amendment to the law on the Office of Profit, to a Constitution Bench.
In a major relief to Adani Group, the Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the stay order that stalled work at its Rs 7,400-crore (Rs 74 billion) multi-product Special Economic Zone in Gujarat.
The actress hopes for a stay on the criminal proceedings against her.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan declined to entertain the PIL filed by Mumbai-based IITian M N Ramamurthy. In his plea, Ramamurthy had contended that the contents of the agreements were detrimental to security of the country.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass a direction for expediting the execution of death sentence of Mohmammad Afzal, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Andhra Pradesh government not to make any further admissions in professional and educational institiutions under the controversial act providing four per cent resevrations to the Muslims.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment, which said that Sikhs are not a minority community in Punjab.
Senior advocate Indira Jaisinh, appearing for Gere, said the actor, who is scheduled to come to India in March, was ready to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday started the hearing for examining the constitutional validity of a POTA provision that binds courts to abide by the Review Committee's findings on the applicability of the anti-terror law, which is now defunct.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed K G Menon, a senior advocate from Mumbai, to assist the Special Investigation Team (SIT) earlier constituted by it for a fresh probe or further investigations into 14 post Godhra riot cases.
The prosecution is likely to seek capital punishment for the 11 convicted who were charged with murder, while the lawyer of victims may seek life imprisonment for them.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan accepted the request of Additional Solicitor General R Mohan that the two weeks time granted to the Centre on January 16 to file the affidavits be extended by four weeks and posted the matter for hearing in the first week of March.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence awarded to Yaqub Memon in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, till further orders.
Poultry prices are likely to start firming up in the next four weeks, when the examination season gets over and with the onset of summer in April.
The apex court passed the order after the Centre gave an undertaking that from next year it will make a provision for granting reservation to SC/ST candidates in the all India quota.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan was hearing a petition moved by Reliance Power, promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, against the Jagrut Grahak Suraksha Mahila Mandal alleging that there was a 'malafide and illegal campaign by certain interested persons to stop or delay the IPO to be launched on January 15.'
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.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said the matter will be heard by a five-judge Constitution Bench
Patil was administered oath of office and secrecy by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan.
"The government of today which was in power in 1996 has to be morally committed on the issue," he said.
The 13 who have been disqualified were the ones who first broke away from the BSP to lend support to the Mulayam Singh government.
Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said though the court does receive a large number of complaints, only a handful of them are worth paying attention. He was addressing a press conference at the end of a meeting of chief ministers and chief justices of high courts at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday.
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