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President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch stand with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Cheryl Hines, and other family members, with his commission, before he is sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington. (AP/PTI) In a landmark decision that reshaped…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has taken exception to district and state consumer forums fast becoming sinecures for retired district and HC judges and admitted that the apex court had passed sweeping orders in the past for activating these forums without realising the pendency of cases in these institutions.A district consumer forum is headed by a…
NEW DELHI: Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal informed Parliament Friday that 8,630 complaints have been received by Chief Justice of India against sitting judges of the Supreme Court and high courts since 2016.The frequency of the complaints has increased in recent times with 50% of all such grievances received in the last four years…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court cautioned on Monday constitutional court judges against assuming the role of domain experts and suggesting remedial steps and said it would be dangerous if they deviate from their primary duty to decide disputes as neutral umpires after considering rival submissions. The remark came from a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant,…
NEW DELHI: A Jharkhand HC judge kept his verdict reserved in a writ petition for two years and orally pronounced it on Dec 4 after SC found the delay “shocking”, but even after two months, there is no sign of a written judgment, which has been neither uploaded to HC website nor made available to…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pronounced a split verdict on the constitutional validity of Section 17A of Prevention of Corruption Act that barred the agencies from probing corruption charges against government officials without the Centre’s permission.A bench of Justices KV Vishwanathan and BVNagarathna differed on the decision with the former judge observing that…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: An Indian-American federal judge has become the latest target of vitriolic attacks from MAGA supporters after blocking a key Trump administration move to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, underscoring a broader pattern in which judges of Indian origin have faced intense — and often xenophobic — backlash for…
NEW DELHI: Observing that a fearless judge is the bedrock of an independent judiciary, Supreme Court on Monday held that disciplinary proceedings can’t be initiated against a judge for an error of judgment on their part. It also expressed concern over frivolous complaints being filed against members of judiciary, which lead to trial court judges…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday noted that some individuals are attempting to gain “political advantage” after lawyers for expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar claimed that allegations had been made against the Delhi high court judges who had suspended his life sentence in the Unnao rape case.“We understand it. We are not sitting…
Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province have registered a case over the theft of “two apples and a hand wash bottle” from a sessions court judge’s chamber in Lahore, officials said on Tuesday.The FIR was filed at Lahore’s Islampura Police Station based on a complaint from the judge’s reader, who said he acted on the judge’s…
