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West Bengal SIR: SC to consider plea against EC's decision to freeze electoral rolls ahead of pollsThe Supreme Court will hear a plea on April 13 concerning the freezing of electoral rolls for West Bengal assembly polls. The Election Comm...
SC reserves verdict on question over eligibility for district judge posts under bar quotaThe Supreme Court is considering a key issue. It involves judicial officer appointments as district judges. The court examined if prior exp...
SC commences hearing on eligibility of judicial officers for District Judge posts under Bar quotaThe Supreme Court is currently examining rules for appointing district judges. The core issue is whether judicial officers with prior exper...
SC not superior or inferior to HC: CJI Gavai says no cause too small to merit attention of lawyers, judgesCJI Gavai emphasized the independence of high court collegiums in recommending judges, stating the Supreme Court cannot dictate their decis...
CJI flags concerns over Rs15-25K pensions for district judges retiring as HC judges, urges govt actionThe Supreme Court of India has raised concerns over the meager pensions received by judges who spent their entire careers in the district j...
Viral video: "Roj bapore 1-4 sui jai che...," CJI's Gujarati speech is winning hearts; PM reactsIn Rajkot, CJI DY Chandrachud charmed the audience by speaking in Gujarati and humorously acknowledging the unique characteristics of the c...
CJI’s comments and orders put spotlight on Supreme Court-government relationshipIn the Madras Bar Association case, the Supreme Court held certain provisions regarding service and tenure of tribunal members unconstituti...
Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Narendra Modi over Kurian Joseph's claimGandhi further said it was the bad luck of the 'chowkidar' (watchman), a term he often uses for Modi, that there was no dearth of honest ju...
CJI raps states for lower court vacancies, lack of fundsGovernments of UP, Delhi and West Bengal came in for harsh criticism for failing to provide funds and manpower to courts even after lower c...
Opposition parties meet Venkaiah Naidu, give notice for impeachment of CJIAfter the meeting, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad confirmed that the leaders were moving the notice for impeachment against CJI.
Probe CJI for serious misconduct, says Prashant BhushanDipak Misra accused of denying the CBI the permission to prosecute a sitting Allahabad HC judge, who was allegedly involved in a medical sc...
Three SC benches to hear triple talaq, WhatsApp, Assam citizenship cases in summer vacationA minimum of 17 judges of the top court will be sitting at least half the vacations in a bid to bring down the number of cases pending befo...
Centre & judiciary's standoff over judges' selection may resumeCentre had relented last month after CJIs appeal and agreed to the recommendations despite disagreement on a couple of clauses in the memor...
Yakub Memon's final bid for life; courtroom drama lasted all nightThe top-most judges of the country being woken up in the middle of the night and having to dash across to the Supreme Court for final heari...
PIL in Supreme Court challenges former CJI P Sathasivam's appointment as governor of KeralaThe petition was filed by a social worker named Mohamed Ali in the backdrop of former CJI P Sathasivam being appointed governor of Kerala.
CJI & his tenure: Why seniority rule should be junked in appointment processSeniority has been overlooked in appointments to Army, but not in courts. But since then the once-bitten govt has fought shy of not stickin...
As Justice Kapadia leaves & Justice Kabir takes over as CJI, the court stays in businessVery few judges can count economics, public finance, theoretical physics and Hindu and Buddhist philosophies as their areas of interest.