The Supreme Court, directed States to implement the safety guidelines for schools, as circulated by the Center, and ensure that the students feel safe in schools. Supreme Court bench has directed states, in the Petition filed by the father of a seven year old boy who was found murdered on the premises of Gurugram’s Ryan International School last month. Tahir SiddiquiLegal
Justice Rohinton Nariman and the nine-judge bench of Supreme Court have declared Right to Privacy as a fundamental right in a case titled KS Puttaswamy Vs Union of India. Every year, ‘Access Now’ names “heroes” who have worked towards ensuring any electronic surveillance program which fully respects human rights and this year the nine-Judge bench has been acclaimed with this
A petition is filed in the Supreme Court by Goolrakh Gupta a Parsi Zoroastrian woman, raising the legal issue whether she gets automatically converted to Hindu religion after her marriage to a Hindu man. She stated that there was no law in India which says that the wife must adopt her husbands religion. SC stated that it will decide the
The Supreme Court put a hold sale of fire crackers in Delhi and NCR region stating that sale will get implemented only from November 1, 2017. A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri said it wanted to test the effect of the ban on air quality after Diwali noting that each year festival leaves the air in Delhi thick
The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to place on record the steps taken by them to enhance the security in the Courts within four weeks. This order was issued by a Bench comprising Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara in a case in which the witness was shot dead while the police was escorting him to the lock-up. Shikha TiwariI
The Supreme Court has taken Suo Motu Cognizance of question paper leak in the Haryana Judicial Service Examination 2017 and transferred the matter to Apex Court. The registrar of the office Dr. Balwinder Kumar Sharma was the conspirator. The Haryana High Court Creation Committee recommended registration of an FIR and disciplinary action against him, as well as his transfer from
The Supreme court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to decide the representation of Mathaiyan seeking premature release from prison within 4 weeks take decision on the same. Mathaiyan is the elder brother of slain forest brigand Veerappan. He is in Salem Central Prison as a life convict since 1997 charged for the offences of murder, causing hurt
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a plea filed by kids Arjun-Gopal and others tomorrow seeking restoration of its last years decision of prohibiting fire crackers in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). The plea has also sought recall of apex court verdict dated September 12 which had temporarily lifted the order of suspending permanent licences for sale of firecrackers
The Supreme Court in Pankajbhai Rameshbhai Zalavadia vs Jethabhai Kalabhai Zalavadiya (Deceased) through LRs & Ors. held that there is no bar for filing the application under Order 1 Rule 10, even though the application under Order 22 Rule 4 of the CPC was dismissed as not maintainable. Earlier the trail court had dismissed the application filed earlier under Order 22
The Chief Justice Dipak Misra led a bench of the Supreme Court referred to a constitution bench for the issue of formulating a law on action to be taken against individuals in authority or holding a public office or governance in-charge making irresponsible statements. Earlier the court also framed four questions while a petition had been filed against Samajwadi
