The rulings given by Justice Balakrishnan have had far reaching effects on the society.
The high court had in 2005 disqualified the legislator on a petition filed by one S S Bagali under the Representation of People's Act.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a telecom dispute tribunal's order directing the government to give to cellular phone service providers copies of files pertaining to its decision allowing WLL operations.
Terming it as misconceived, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking CBI inquiry into the circumstances in which Finance Minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini was engaged as a counsel in tax cases involving huge revenue.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed that all disputes arising out of the collapsed Jet-Sahara deal
Supreme Court on Friday stayed proceedings on petitions filed by Jet Airways and Air Sahara against each other at Mumbai and Lucknow courts.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop construction work on the Sardar Sarovar project, even as the Gujarat government said the work on the dam during monsoon will not go beyond 119 metres.
A Division Bench of Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice B N Agrawal dismissed the convicts' appeals against the special TADA court's order.
The Supreme Court has asked the various parties in DPC to come out with the modalities about fixing interim tariff for sale of electricity by DPC to MSEB.
The power plant of DPC is likely to remain idle for some more time as the Supreme Court's initiative to restart it met a roadblock with key shareholders of DPC -- subsidiaries of GE and Bechtel -- refusing to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
It also extended its interim order staying the arrest warrants issued against the journalists.
Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to modify its earlier order scaling down the NRI seats in these colleges from over 100 to 30.
The SC made made the observation while dealing with an issue relating to the media's right to freedom of expression and its limits.
The Bombay high court had sentenced the Sena chief to years' imprisonment in a contempt case.
The bench was perturbed that the Madras high court was working with half the sanctioned strength of 49 judges, though a collegium, consisting of five senior judges of the apex court, had cleared 17 names for the posts.\n\n
The bench said for fixing criminal liability on a doctor or surgeon, the standard of negligence required to be proved should be so high as could be described as 'gross negligence' or 'reckless'.
The government had cancelled allotment of over 3000 petrol pumps and LPG dealerships in the wake of a controversy over their selection.
The Action Plan for Control of Stray Animal Menace prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests says stopping monkey-feeding will help prevent the menace.
The Supreme Court cleared a multi-crore luxury housing project being constructed by Tata Housing Development Corporation Ltd in Goa and set aside a Mumbai high court order directing demolition of the complex as it was being built in green areas.
The court made it clear that 'it would not be open to the state governments or the Union territories to delay the implementation of the scheme'.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to stockbroker Ketan Parekh, Central Bureau of Investigation and the Gujarat government on a petition filed by Madhavpura Mercantile Co-operative Bank.
A controversy broke out on Sunday over Justice Sikri getting a government offer last year for a post-retirement assignment at the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT), three days after his vote, as a representative of CJI Ranjan Gogoi on the panel, helped decide the removal of Verma as CBI director.
A day after informing Parliament that the Prime Minister's Office under Manmohan Singh had pushed for extension to a judge facing corruption charges, the government on Wednesday demanded that the former prime minister should make a "categorical" statement on the controversial matter.
Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, currently chairman of Press Council of India, on Monday stirred a controversy by alleging that three ex-Chief Justices of India had compromised in giving extension to an additional judge of Madras high court at the instance of the United Progressive Alliance government in the wake of pressure from one of its allies, apparently Dravida Munnetra Kazahagham.
'N Ram and I met on the lawns of Mani Shankar Aiyar's bungalow.' 'I pulled out a rolled printout from my jacket and handed it to him.' 'In the cut-throat world of journalism, this was like high treason.' 'But letting a story be killed because you can't publish it is a bigger crime than passing it to the competition,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
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