The Supreme Court has asked for a re-deposition of eye witness while considering the bail application of former BJP MP Dinubhai Solanki who stands accused in the cold blooded murder of Amit Jethwa outside the Gujarat High Court in 2010. SC has also ordered Solanki to be arrested and held in confinement until the cross-examination of the eight eyewitnesses is
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay for granting Minority status to Hindus in 8 States of the country. Mr. Upadhyay stated that Hindus are treated as majority in Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Punjab despite of being a minority in population and are deprived of
The Delhi High Court has come to the rescue of an 11 year old daughter of Mohammad Jaki, a daily wage labourer, who approached the court regarding a life saving surgery of her daughter who is suffering from structural heart defect. HC ordered Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital to immediately admit the girl and provide her with necessary treatment. It also
The Kerala High Court denies pre-arrest bail to criminal advocate CP Udayabhanu who is accused of contriving the plan of murdering a real estate broker named Rajeev. The departed Rajeev earlier filed a petition seeking police protection in the High Court claiming that he was facing threat to life from the subordinate employed by C.P Udayabhanu, following a failed real estate
The Kerala State Nurses Association has filed an application in the Supreme Court regarding the revision of salaries of nurses in private hospitals of Kerala. The Association stated that the private hospitals are trying to get away from implementing the recommendations of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Nursing Section) in compliance of the Supreme Court judgment and they should
Union Minister Arun Jaitely has filed a criminal defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Deepak Bajpai and four others for presumably making malicious proclamations against him regarding his term as the Chief of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). Mr. Bajapi approached the Delhi High Court but it refused to quash the summons against him.
The Supreme Court adjourned the PIL filed by Pankaj Kumud Chandra Phadnis seeking re-investigation of the Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in the understanding of some new evidence for four weeks after Advocate Amendra Sharan demanded more time to gather information about the case. Gandhiji’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi also sought the courts permission to intervene in the case opposing the re-investigation.
The Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, requested the Supreme Court that the Aadhaar case should be be heard in March as the centre is willing to extend the deadline for linking various services to Aadhaar till March, 2018. Advocate Gopal Subramanian also added that there should be no compulsion of linking various services with Aadhaar if the hearing is postponed but
The Supreme has taken a step ahead in the famous Hadiya Case by ordering Ashokan, a 24 year old woman Hadiya’s father to produce her in front of the court on November 27 at 3 pm to determine whether she, an adult, after her conversion had willingly agreed to marry Shafin Jahan, a criminal. It has decided to speak to
The Supreme Court reprimanded Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal government for questioning the Constitutional viability of the Aadhaar Act under Article 32 of the Indian Constitution. It stated that no state can challenge a law passed by the parliament. SC also issued a notice to the Department of Telecom to stop distorting people by informing them about Aadhaar being the only
