The petition alleged that the Centre took a series of steps in a 'completely mala fide, arbitrary and illegal manner to ensure that Asthana was given the charge of CBI director'.
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi considered the submission of lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO Common Cause that there were wider issues of corruption affecting the probe agency and the PIL needed to be heard urgently.
The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice T S Sivagnanam of the Madras High Court also orally observed that firing upon the innocent public was a scar on Indian democracy and it should not be forgotten.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing the plea for investigating the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam with an NGO claiming that he was in the know of all developments relating to fixation of price for allocation of radio waves.
'Lord Jagannath won't forgive us if we allow this year's Rath Yatra to go on'
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath issued notice to the Ministry of Defence, saying that "we want to know your response" and listed the matter for hearing on February 3 next year.
The SC agrees with the government's request for a year to show effective results of its pro-farmer schemes like Fasal Bima Yojana.
"It is a matter of faith for crores. If Lord Jagannath will not come out tomorrow, he cannot come out for 12 years as per traditions," said Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra.
The controversial issue of marital rape was again raked up on Monday before the Delhi HC.
Often portrayed as the 'most brutal' face of that fateful night's violence, he is said to be oblivious of the latest developments in the case.
'Many enter the civil services with the desire to do good work but get beaten by the system, step back or become part of it.' 'Ten fantastic officers out of 100 can completely change the game.'
Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and migration, points out Ramesh Menon.
Jaiswal is a 1985-batch Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra cadre. He has also served as Maharashtra's director general of police in the past.
Section 375 (rape) of IPC has an exception clause which says "sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape."
Taking suo motu note of a letter on posting of two rape videos on WhatsApp, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to launch a probe "forthwith" to nab the culprits and sought responses from the Centre and governments of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Delhi and Telangana.
The solicitor general said that the PM CARES Fund is a 'voluntary fund'. "It is a public trust. It is a body where you can make voluntary contributions and no budgetary allocations to the NDRF or SDRF are being touched. What has to be spent will be spent," the law officer said.
The Delhi high court was informed on Tuesday that a petition challenging the appointment of Gujarat-cadre Indian Police Service officer Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner has also been filed before the Supreme Court.
The SC said Rao has prima facie committed contempt of court by transferring Sharma without taking court's consent.
After Islamic evangelist and preacher Zakir Naik showed the inability to go to the Indian embassy in Malaysia for authentication of his credentials for vakalatnama, the UAPA tribunal said, "He is bound to file a vakalatnama in proper format with proper authentication or he may remain physically present on the next date of hearing."
The AG said that the names for the search committee have not been finalised yet.
In order to expedite proceedings against sitting MPs and MLAs in criminal cases, the Supreme Court on Monday set a deadline for lower courts to complete trial in cases involving lawmakers within a year of framing of charges.
'Geeta said Swaraj used to talk to her and discuss about all her problems and progress in studies'
According to NHFS-5, over 75 per cent women justified men beating their wives in three states -- Telangana (84 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (84 per cent) and Karnataka (77 per cent).
The apex court had earlier dismissed a similar plea, which made identical allegations filed by advocate Kamini Jaiswal.
Twenty-eight years ago almost to the day, 37 unarmed Muslims were killed in cold blood, an act of wanton violence for which no one has so far been held guilty. Jyoti Punwani and photographer Uttam Ghosh visited the Meerut locality after the trial court recently acquitted the security personnel charged with the killings, and found a town untouched by its grim past.
A bench of acting chief justices Gita Mittal and C Hari Shankar said that in a relationship like marriage, both man and woman have a right to say 'no' to physical relations.
The alleged meetings of former Director of CBI Ranjit Kumar Sinha with the accused in coalgate and 2G cases were'inappropriate', said SC.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking stay on arbitration proceedings on a dispute between Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and the government over recovery of cost for developing the country's key natural gas field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin.
A station house officer was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl who was left outside his police station in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur by four men after they raped her for three days, officials said on Wednesday.
'Muslims know they cannot defeat the BJP, why then come in its firing range?' 'And they know, ultimately it is the BJP MLA who is going to get elected and only he or she can do their work.' 'The BJP may do a different kind of politics for Muslims, but when they sit in the chair they work for Muslims too.'
'Instead of getting rehabilitated in Bollywood, I have forced into legal hassles while everyone else watches the drama.'
The apex court, which had earlier issued notice to the Centre on similar petitions, on Friday ordered tagging of the fresh plea of Tehseen Poonawalla with pending ones.
The Delhi High Court Thursday termed as "copy-paste" a petition filed before it challenging the appointment of IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner and warned the petitioner that such activity shall not be repeated in the future.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the Nanavati Commission, which is inquiring into the 2002 Gujarat riot cases, to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the carnage. A bench comprising justices D K Jain and A K Dave allowed an NGO, Jan Sangarsh Manch, to withdraw its petition challenging a Gujarat high courts order.
However, police have not booked anybody specifically under the charge.
The contentious bill providing for legal sanction to police to obtain physical and biological samples of convicts and detainees for investigation in criminal matters was passed by Lok Sabha on Monday, with Home Minister Amit Shah asserting it will act as a defender of human rights of law-abiding citizens.
A division Bench of Justices S Radhakrishnan and Roshan Dalvi took exception to the letter by a British NGO 'Fair Trials Abroad' to the chief justice. The NGO had stated that they wanted to engage British lawyers to represent Grant (63) and Waters (59) before the High Court. "We don't want communication from other agencies. You can't write such letters to the court," Justice Radhakrishnan noted and added, "Tell your clients that we are no more their colony."
The Gujarat high court on Thursday put a stay on the operation of some sections related to interfaith marriages of the state's new anti-conversion law.
The top court said the probe agency would take the help of professional councillors and qualified child psychiatrist in questioning the victims.
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