Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a PIL seeking a direction to decriminalise the law on statutory rape often invoked against 16- to 18-year-old adolescents for indulging in consensual sex. A bench comprising…
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The Supreme Court on Friday observed that it cannot restrain the Bihar government from publishing the cumulative data or findings of the Bihar caste survey unless there is a prima facie case to show violation of any constitutional right or…
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The central government on Tuesday offered to transfer all the FIRs concerning crimes against women in Manipur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and the Manipur…
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The Supreme Court on Monday called for evolving a broad mechanism to deal with violence against women in strife-torn Manipur and asked how many FIRs have been registered in such incidents in the state since May. Solicitor general Tushar…
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The Supreme Court today will hear the centre’s request to transfer the case of two women being paraded naked in strife-torn Manipur to a different state. The two women filed petitions in the Supreme Court against the centre and the Manipur…
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the ongoing delimitation of Lok Sabha and assembly seats in Assam by the Election Commission and sought the response of the Centre and the poll panel on a batch of pleas on the issue. A bench of…
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a bail petition of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on July 14. An urgent mentioning of the matter was made by senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi citing the ill health of…
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Police to grant protection to a 20-year-old woman who allegedly ran away from home and is apprehending threat to her life from her family members. The top court passed the order while…
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A lawyer petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to seek directions to the central government to invite President Droupadi Murmu to the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28, arguing that keeping her out of Sunday’s event…
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Gautam Adani’s Adani Group was given a clean chit Friday by a Supreme Court-appointed panel of experts that examined data from the national market regulator – the Securities Exchange Board of India, or SEBI – to investigate claims of…
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