Supreme Court

Successive governments have ‘completely destroyed’ the independence of the Election Commission of India (ECI) by ensuring no chief election commissioner (CEC) gets the full six-year term to head the poll body since 1996, a Constitution…
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Days after the Supreme Court had ordered release of three men – sentenced to death – in the 2012 Chhawla gang rape-murder case, the Delhi government is set to challenge the order. Lt Governor of Delhi – Vinai Kumar Saxena – has given a…
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The Congress on Friday described the Supreme Court’s decision to free the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as “totally unacceptable”, and “completely erroneous”. “The Supreme Court’s decision to free the remaining killers of…
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Supreme Court on Monday acquitted three convicts who were awarded the death penalty by Delhi Court after being held guilty of raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawala area in 2012. The three convicts were awarded the…
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A 10 per cent reservation in all colleges and government jobs for the poorer sections of India’s so-called “upper castes”, introduced just before the 2019 general elections, will be at stake as the Supreme Court rules on its validity today.…
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Advocate EC Agrawala, the lawyer of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, Thursday told the Supreme Court that he was not receiving any communication from him and sought to be discharged from the case as a counsel. A bench of Justices D Y…
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After the tragic collapse of the Morbi suspension bridge claimed over 130 lives in Gujarat, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court, urging for a judicial probe headed by a retired judge into the incident.…
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The Centre and Gujarat fast-tracked the early release of 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots despite the CBIs strong objections, a document reveals. The Supreme Court will hear the…
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The 11 men convicted for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots were released as they had been in jail for 14 years and their behaviour was found to be good, the Gujarat government told the Supreme Court today. The…
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The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay high court judgment of releasing Delhi University former professor GN Saibaba in the Maoist link case. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Friday acquitted Saibaba and five others…
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