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NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday said the SC in 2006 should have outrightly “thrown in the dustbin’ the original PIL that led to quashing of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple custom restricting entry of women in the 10 to 50 age group. “All India Young Lawyers Association’, which…
Days before its theatrical release, Raja Shivaji has cleared a legal hurdle. The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought to stall the film over the omission of the honorific “Chhatrapati” from its title.A Bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad held that the petition did…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and states on a PIL seeking a sufficient increase in the minimum support price (MSP) for the procurement of grains to enable farmers to recover at least the input cost and prevent thousands of them from ending their lives out of financial distress. A…
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging rampant misuse of public interest litigation for ulterior motives or for pursuing pet agendas, SC on Wednesday said it would have dismissed a PIL petition if it had been filed by a lawyers’ body presently challenging the Sabarimala custom of barring entry of women of menstruating age.This remark came from a bench…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a Ludhiana-based cloth trader after he admitted using artificial intelligence tools to draft the petition and could not explain complex legal terms used in it. According to news agency PTI, the exchange took place before a…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the Uniform Civil Code is necessary to ensure equal rights to all women.A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justices R Mahadevan and Joymala Bagchi, said that a large section of Muslim society is deprived of equal inheritance rights, but if the inheritance provision of Sharia Law…
NEW DELHI: SC on Tuesday criticised 12 ’eminent’ persons who together filed a PIL “targeting” CMs of BJP-governed states for alleged hate speeches while making a plea for framing guidelines to restrain constitutional functionaries and bureaucrats from breaching fidelity to constitutional morality. Appearing for petitioners, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a bench of Chief Justice…
NGO’s S N Shukla said Supreme Court, in the M S Gill case, had ruled that it should not make Election Commission a law unto itself NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has agreed to test the constitutional validity of a law giving lifelong immunity to the Chief Election Commissioner and election commissioners from civil and criminal…
Angel Chakma, a Tripura student who allegedly died following a racist attack in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Amidst outrage over the murder of Anjel Chakma, 24, from Tripura allegedly on racial grounds, a petition has been filed in Supreme Court seeking its intervention to protect people from north-eastern states from hate and racial abuse…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Monday sought a response from govt in a PIL seeking directions to the state to conduct a comprehensive statewide socio-economic and health survey of all senior citizens in Goa to provide for their welfare. The PIL seeks the data from the survey to be published in the public domain,…
