Verma has sought quashing of three orders of October 23, 2018 -- one by the Central Vigilance Commission and two by the Department of Personnel and Training, as being without jurisdiction and in violation of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on a plea for probe into the alleged torture and extra-judicial killings by the Border Security Force personnel in the border area of West Bengal.
The Madhya Pradesh high court has dismissed a petition filed by Dow Chemical challenging the trial court order of 2005 issuing show cause notice to it in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.
"It's not Kejriwal or any political opponent, I need to worry about...Third rate people in India are doing third rate things... All this is being done as they want to launch their own party and they want to take over the country... We will fight tooth and nail, won't give into these blackmailers," Khurshid told a television channel from London
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre and the governments of Rajasthan and Haryana on allegations that large scale illegal mining and depletion of forest cover was taking place in the two states. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar issued notice on an application moved by a NGO, Society for Awareness and Development, which alleged that the states were willfully violating the apex court's earlier directions.
The apex court asked Attorney General K K Venugopal to assist it to deal with the plea.
An NGO - Citizens for Justice and Peace - wants the cases pertaining to the massacre of 110 people in Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya to be transferred outside the state.\n\n
The apex court fixed the matter for next hearing on November 16.
The Tamil Nadu government filed a reply in the Supreme Court on Friday stating that no farmer had committed suicide in the state, and clarified that those who have, took the extreme step due to personal reasons.
The case was registered by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on a complaint accusing Setalvad and Anand of "fraudulently" securing grants of Rs 1.4 crore from the union government through their NGO Sabrang Trust between 2008 and 2013.
The verdict is likely to be pronounced before October 2 this year as Justice Misra would be retiring as CJI on that day.
In relief to shooters, the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Delhi high court judgment which held that licenses would be necessary for procuring air rifles and air pistols, which was coming in the way of their training and competition.
A senior Indian Police Service officer in Central Bureau of Investigation is the 'mole' who supplied documents and file notings to advocate Prashant Bhushan on the basis of which 'false and baseless' allegations were made, agency chief Ranjit Sinha claimed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Voicing deep concern over the growing number of children going missing and remaining untraced, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it will deal with all the states one by one as it summoned the chief secretary and directors general of police of Bihar and Chhattisgarh to explain what action they are taking on the issue.
President Pratibha Patil was at the centre of yet another controversy over her post-retirement home in Pune.
FSSAI assured the court that all requirements under the Act shall be complied with fully.
The juvenile convict in the December 16 gang rape was on Sunday released and sent to an NGO at an undisclosed destination with police no longer guarding him.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted six weeks time to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to respond to the final CAG report which found alleged irregularities including in payments made to the contractors on drilling of D6 wells at the Krishna-Godavari basin.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any order on a clemency plea for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who had been awarded the death penalty for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. A bench of justices T S Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra said it cannot pass any direction as the convict has not filed any petition before it and the petitioner Abhinav Ramakrishna has no locus standi to plead on his behalf.
Criticising the court may also lead to interference in the course of justice, the bench added.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a PIL seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged siphoning off of funds given to an NGO Hind Swaraj Trust run by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and issued notices to the Centre and Maharashtra government. A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai sought the governments' response on a petition filed by lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma, accusing Hazare of siphoning off of funds granted by the government.
A PIL has sought a CBI probe into the presence of nearly two crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India and striking their names off the electoral rolls.
A bench headed by acting Chief Justice A K Sikri would consider the fresh application filed by Centre for Public Interest Litigation.
'Work will now be basically file movements from one desk to another as both the government and the agency would not like to antagonise the court.'
Division Bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and A R Joshi passed the order on Thursday, granting the prayer made by Chintu Shaikh, the petitioner, who had alleged that Nitesh shot at him at Swabhiman's office in Mumbai last September.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to go into a plea seeking probe by an special investigation team into alleged recovery of documents by the IT department in connection with raids on two business houses in New Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to soft drink majors Pepsico and Coca Cola on a petition seeking that there should be a disclosure by the companies about the ingredients and chemical composition of the product.
An NGO has filed a PIL against the movement, alleging that it is getting foreign funds to destabilise the nation.
The Nanavati Commission, probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots, on Thursday reserved its order on an application, seeking summoning of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and three others for questioning.
In a setback to former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, the Supreme court on Thursday quashed the land allotment to him by the West Bengal Government in 2000.
The samples will be sent to the forensic laboratory at Red Hill in Hyderabad for DNA testing.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra reserved its verdict on a plea seeking recognition of 'living will' made by a terminally-ill patient for passive euthanasia.
There cannot be a 'blanket ban' on media reporting on cases of rape and sexual abuse, it said.
Shah said after the SC refusal to interfere with the arrests of five activists in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case
Senior advocate P P Rao was earlier appointed as an eminent jurist in the committee but the post became vacant after he passed away last year.
The Centre had told the apex court that the entitlement of former MPs to get pension and other benefits was "justified" as their dignity has to be maintained.
The bench made clear that it will not shift the schedule date of hearing and asked him to file his response 'as quickly as possible' during the day by 4 pm itself to enable it to peruse the reply.
"Whatever is available in the US cannot be made available in India also."
The apex court directed the Centre to frame guidelines on the matter.
The bench says discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to the dignity of an individual.
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