Venugopal told the court that he had given legal opinion to the AIADMK faction led by Panneerselvam.
The court also told the attorney general that the new CBI director who would be appointed must "trace the movements of files" during the period when former CBI chief Alok Kumar Verma was reinstated to the post for two days.
Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench headed by Justice Bobde that the Constitution (103 amendment) Act, 2019 granting 10 per cent reservation to EWS is intended to uplift around 200 million people who are still below the poverty line.
He did not give any specific reason for withdrawing from hearing the case.
Sources say promulgating an ordinance to restore the original provisions would help calm tempers.
The Centre and the Assam government stands were advanced by Attorney General K K Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, respectively.
The apex court, which has been mulling over the issue in its meetings held at the residence of Chief Justice of India S A Bobde on Thursday and Friday, took note of the government's March 5 advisory cautioning against mass gatherings in view of the fact that the World Health Organisation has declared COVID-19 a 'global pandemic'.
Article 35-A, which was incorporated in the Constitution by a 1954 Presidential Order, accords special rights and privileges to the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir and bars people from outside the state from acquiring any immovable property in the state.
The last date for linking Aadhaar for mobile services will remain February 6 as per the Supreme Court order.
"Once live streaming will be allowed, your problem will be solved," the bench said when Tripathi alleged that students are not allowed to witness proceedings in all matters in the apex court.
Trinamool Congress MLA Mahua Moitra alleged that the Centre's social media hub policy was to be used as a tool to monitor social media activities of the citizens and should be quashed.
Justices Dilip B Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty, Abhilasha Kumari and Ajay Kumar Tripathi have been appointed as judicial members in the anti-corruption ombudsman.
The Attorney General said whatever is being said by this court is sent before the United Nations.
Justice Ghose, who retired from the Supreme Court in May 2017, is a member of the National Human Rights Commission.
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The court also said that it is to be ensured that no life was lost there and posted the matter after two weeks, saying it will wait for normalcy to return.
Attorney General K K Venugopal on Tuesday said the crisis in the Supreme Court seems to be unresolved and hoped it will be "fully settled" in a couple of days, remarks that come a day after he stated that everything was settled in the higher judiciary.
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection.
A three-judge bench presided by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and comprising of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph said that it was not their job to go into the issue of pricing of the fighter planes.
The CJI said that after being a judge for around two decades, he had a bank balance of Rs 6.80 lakh.
The search committee will forward the names to the selection committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India or his nominee, Lok Sabha Speaker, the leader of the largest opposition party and an eminent jurist.
A rebel by nature, he lived the life to the fullest, donning different hats -- lawyer, parliamentarian, minister -- but was not a quintessential politician constrained by party lines.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed advocate Prashant Bhushan, who has levelled allegations against Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha of protecting accused in the 2G case, to reveal the name of the whistleblower from whom he got CBI documents and guest list at the top cop's residence.
The top court directed the Secretary of the Union water resources ministry to personally appear before it on May 14 with a draft of the Cauvery management scheme to implement its verdict on water sharing between four states including Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
The court granted the last opportunity to the defaulting states and UTs, warning if they did not file their reports within a week, then their home secretaries will have to appear in person before court.
The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Board of Control for Cricket in India's view on barring Narayanswami Srinivasan from participating in its meetings, saying it is free to stick to its stand that he has a conflict of interest "so long as a competent court of jurisdiction arrives at a decision to upset its view".
Rahul targets the Modi government on Twitter, using the hashtag "BikGayaChowkidar".
Centre objected to the review petition and said that the basic grounds for seeking review of the verdict are the same as they were in the main petition.
Several petitions have been filed in the apex court challenging the government's move making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes.
After lot of deliberation, the CBI this year got the nod from the NDA government to file an appeal in the apex court.
'Women were not allowed in the Territorial Army before January 5, 2018. Presently girls are not allowed in Sainik Schools and Rashtriya Military schools. Women are not allowed in the army education corps, in the engineering services (as permanent commission), they can't be religious preachers in the army. There's a need to change with the times.'
Govt effort to curb black money in polls futile if identity of donors not known, says SC.
'Secrecy allowed in the electoral bonds scheme legalises anonymity'
In a relief to controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Uttar Pradesh police not to take any coercive action against her in connection with a first information report lodged by Muslim cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan alleging that her Twitter posts insulted "religious" beliefs.
The bench said that 'argument on the preliminary issue and the claim of privilege raised by the Government of India is reserved'.
'This puts the national security in jeopardy,' the Centre said.
The bench said that Aadhaar may pass the test of 'legitimate state interest', but the doctrine of proportionality has to be satisfied.
The SC defers the case after Centre informs the court that interlocutor appointed for dialogue in J&K.
The contempt petition refers to the February 1 tweets by Bhushan in which he had allegedly said that the government appeared to have misled the apex court and perhaps submitted fabricated minutes of meeting of the high-powered selection committee headed by the prime minister.
Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the requirement of the Supreme Court that judges 'reach out to our citizenry through the press'.
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