The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking judicial inquiry against former chief justice of India Y K Sabharwal.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to go into a batch of Public Interest Litigations challenging constitutional validity of the notification on composition of a committee to draft the Jan Lokpal bill, saying the petitions were "premature".
A public interest litigation seeking direction to initiate an inquiry into money laundering and match-fixing in the Indian Premier League was filed in the Karnataka high court on Tuesday.
The Bombay high court on Thursday termed as "politically induced litigation" a PIL filed by seven citizens seeking action against dissident Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and other rebel MLAs of the party, and said it would hear the plea if the petitioners deposit Rs 1 lakh as security.
The government's move to withdraw the circulars came after the HC said those orders were illegal and issued without following the procedure prescribed under provisions of the Disaster Management Rules.
A complaint made by the judge of Allahabad high court against poor availability of life saving drugs in Uttar Pradesh hospitals was to be taken up for hearing as a public interest litigation by the chief justice himself on Friday.
The PIL has been filed on behalf of the Rashtriya Mukti Morcha.
A farmers' association of Tirunelveli district had filed the petition claiming that EIA was mandatory for the project to be implemented in 16,000 acres of land, of which around 3,000 acres would be on the sea shore.
It demanded punishment for those involved in construction of 'low-quality embankments'.
The Indian arm of the Union for Information & Technology Enabled Services is planning to file a public interest litigation against the alleged 'arbitrary policy' of many Indian and multinational IT/ITeS firms in India who have, for the past two months, reportedly been enforcing longer working hours that violate the daily eight-hour working mandate of the Indian Factories Act, 1948.
The PIL has alleged that large scale violence last month over the Gujjar's demand for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category was a fallout of the 'infighting' within the state Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Karnataka high court on Friday allowed the Isha Yoga Centre's Adiyogi statue to be inaugurated in Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka on January 15.
A division bench comprising Justice J N Patel and Justice Bhushan Gavai passed the order on Monday while hearing a public interest litigation filed by Vijay Talewar, a social activist.
It then went on to ask whether a lion could be named after Swami Vivekananda or Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
oved the Supreme Court against a high court decision dismissing its PIL against Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for their remarks on judiciary and the collegium system for appointment of judges.
A controversy has erupted over the use of Mahatma Gandhi's name and image by Swiss luxury giant Mont Blanc for a Rs 14 lakh pen since the apostle of peace was known for simplicity throughout his life.
Earlier, the university and the district authorities filed a compliance report in the court, stating therein that its directions for getting the hostels vacated by December 17 had been implemented.
The high court issued a notice to the Rajasthan government on Thursday on a public interest litigation filed after the global controversy over a elephant polo match organised recently in Jaipur.
The Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Intelligence Bureau had no "material" (records) regarding the Rs 16,000 crore Scorpene submarine deal.
The plea came up for hearing before a bench of Justices SK Kaul and A Amanullah.
The Bench said "it is a very important issue" and wanted to go through the previous rulings of the apex court on this issue.
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Taking up a public interest litigation seeking CBI probe into the violence and death during CPI(M) recapture of Nandigram in November, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Government to file an affidavit giving its views on the issue within eight weeks.
The petition, filed by B P Singhal, stated that the government's decision to remove the governors of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Goa and Gujarat was unconstitutional, as the Constitution categorically provides for a fixed tenure of five years for them
A division bench of the high Court comprising acting Chief Justice Sanjay Kumar Misra and Justice N S Dhanik posed the question to the EC while hearing a PIL on Wednesday seeking postponement of the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttarakhand in view of the rising cases of COVID-19 and its latest variant Omicron.
The Rajasthan high court on Friday asked the state government to constitute a committee led by a retired judge to look into the quota demands of the Gujjars and to find a solution to the problem arising out of their ongoing agitation.The committee was also asked to take up the matter with the Gujjar community to defuse the agitation and the situation arising out of it.The division bench was acting on a public interest litigation on the Gujjar agitation.
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday issued show cause notices to the Centre and the Rajasthan government for allegedly not taking any action on the information available in relation to the May 13 serial bomb blasts in Jaipur last year. A division bench, comprising Justices R C Gandhi and M N Bhandari, served the notices on the state and the central authorities seeking explanation on the same.
A bench comprising Mr Justice A R Lakshmanan and Mr Justice Dalveer Bhandari issued notices on Friday last on a petition filed by The Environmental and Consumer Protection Foundation.
The PIL says, "Lord Ram himself asked his disciples to make a pilgrimage to the Setu."
The court asked them to file their replies within two weeks on a public interest litigation filed by a Mumbai based non-profit organisation Bhrashtrachar Nirmulan Sangathana.
Nayar urged the court to takeup the matter at an early date in view of the high number of vacant seats likely to be filled in the near future.
The court was hearing a public interest litigation seeking action against Gandhi as well as formulation of guidelines to prevent such 'malpractice' by political leaders.
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The Bombay high court has asked Mumbai Police Commissioner to file a report on the alleged underworld links of Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal.
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to conduct an inquiry into allegations of pilots procuring flying license after submitting forged mark sheets.
One of the the PILs challenges the renaming of the heritage house as well.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Kerala government on a petition challenging a high court order directing a high-level inquiry against a person who had filed a Public Interest Litigation seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of Sister Abhaya.
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