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Government cannot be held liable for adverse effects due to Covid vaccination, the Centre told Supreme Court. In a recent affidavit, the Centre said that in cases where a death is found to be induced due to the vaccine, the only remedy is…
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The Supreme Court on Monday voiced its disapproval of remarks that the collegium system of appointing judges to the country’s higher courts is ‘alien’ to the Constitution and requested the government’s top lawyers – Attorney-General R…
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Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Centre to produce before it the files pertaining to the appointment of Arun Goel as the Election Commissioner. Goel was appointed to the position on November 19 and took charge on November 21. A five-judge…
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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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