"This is a politically motivated PIL. Your source of information is a political party? The source of information is the utterances of a political leader. Are you seriously committed to pursuing this petition?" the bench asked.
The Kerala High Court, while dismissing a plea filed by the parents of a 7-year-old, held that a non-consensual sex affirmative surgery on a minor would violate the child's dignity and privacy.
The Bombay High Court said that the Mumbai Police had not followed proper procedure while recovering cocaine from a Nigerian woman who had been in prison for almost five years.
In its petition, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said that bulldozer action caused "more harm than good", and the future of the affected residents remains uncertain.
Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was allowed to extend his passport validity for a decade by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. Following his 2011 conviction for assaulting his domestic worker, Ahuja is currently on bail.
The Supreme Court refused to entertain two petitions seeking guidelines for the regulation of television news channels and a media tribunal for grievance redressal related to the content being aired.
While hearing the Senthil Balaji case, the Supreme Court raised concerns about the interpretation of the verdict in the 1992 CBI vs Anupam case that there is a restriction on the police or investigating agency from seeking custody of an accused beyond the first 15 days from arrest.
Through his arguments, Sibal questioned whether the will of the people was taken into consideration before downgrading Jammu and Kashmir to a Union Territory without proper consultation.
The Additional Solicitor General, appearing for the state of Gujarat, was responding to the petitioner’s charge that the 11 convicts had shown no remorse at all. The ASG said "celebration" on release from prison cannot be connected to lack of remorse.
The Ministry of Railways has no policy or provision for rehabilitation of encroachers, submitted the ministry in an affidavit on the Haldwani eviction case in the Supreme Court.
During a hearing in Supreme Court, senior advocate Kapil Sibal evoked remarks by former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. Here's what CJI DY Chandrachud said in response.
After the police summoned them in the suicide FIR, the two top officials of Edelweiss approached the High Court, stating that there could not have been an abetment to suicide when they were merely following the legal process for loan recovery.
The Karnataka High Court, while granting divorce to a Bengaluru couple, said a woman calling her husband dark-skinned amounted to cruelty and can be regarded as grounds for divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act.
The judge said he would need to hear arguments from both sides on the merits of the case before making a decision on Akhtar’s plea.
The Supreme Court continued hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that accorded special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The petitions challenge a presidential order, revoking the special status, dated August 5, 2019. A five-judge Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant will hear the pleas on a day-to-day basis except Mondays and Fridays. On August 3, Kapil Sibal, on behalf of the petitioners, argued that there was no constitutional procedure available which had rendered the Article infructuous. He said the provision of special status was of "permanent character" after the J&K Constituent Assembly dissolved in 1957. The court questioned Sibal's argument that Article 370 was beyond amending the powers of the Constitution because it is essentially a living document. Follow indiatoday.in for live updates of the hearing by the Supreme Court.
A Gujarat court has rejected Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Sanjay Singh's plea to pause the trial against them in a criminal defamation case over their remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree.
The National Investigation Agency opposed the bail plea of Elgar Parishad case accused, Gautam Navlakha, in the Bombay High Court.
A Bengali nationalist group wrote to the Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, and said that the Constitution does not have the term "national language".
Bilkis Bano told the Supreme Court that she has not recovered from the trauma of her gangrape but the convicts have been released.
The High Court said the externment order should have mentioned that, fearing for their safety, witnesses were not coming forward to give evidence.
