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Supreme Court allows sub-classification in SC, ST for quotaOn Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that states can sub-classify Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) to provide additional q...
Telangana encounter deaths: SC orders judicial inquiry, to be headed by its ex-judge VS SirpurkarAn apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing two public interest litigations seeking an independent probe into the dea...
After difficulty in giving judgments, SC may find it tough to select judges for top courtShrillness in attributing motive to a judge for a judgment is a recent development, since about a decade or so.
Justice S A Bobde unavailable, Supreme Court defers Ayodhya case hearingOn September 27 last year, the bench, in a 2-1 verdict, rejected Dhavan’s plea. While CJI Misra and Justice Bhushan rejected the demand, Ju...
Ayodhya hearing deferred, Supreme Court ruling unlikely before Lok Sabha pollsConstitution bench will get 36 days to hear Ayodhya case before polls.
Impeachment: Prashant Bhushan files RTI for order on setting up 5-judge benchIn his RTI application, Bhushan has sought information regarding the listing of the case before a five-judge constitution bench and also wh...
Supreme Court refuses to take note of lawyer's plea on judges' presserThe judges, in their letter to the CJI last October, had referred to the orders passed on the petition filed by Luthra seeking finalisation...
President should intervene if judges cannot resolve issue: DMKIn case, if a stage comes wherein judges could not resolve the issue, President Kovind should intervene and resolve it, M K Stalin said tod...
Objection Milord: Four SC judges publicly critique CJIJudge Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, had died in 2014. A PIL on the matter is currently being heard in t...
R P Luthra case: Bone of contention in SC judges' controversyHe had said in his separate verdict that "primacy of the judiciary" in the appointment of judges was a basic feature of the Constitution an...
CJI vs Judges row: Rahul Gandhi demands investigation by senior Supreme Court judgesIt is an unprecedented event. Points raised by the Hon judges need to be looked into carefully, even Justice Loya's death needs to be inves...
Meira Kumar achieves what her illustrious dad couldn'tThe SC had upheld Giri's election as president but came to a sad conclusion after evaluating testimonies of politicians, who decades later ...
5 judges of 5 faiths on SC's triple talaq bench; hearing to begin todayFor a sensitive issue like this, the lead petition is aptly titled "Quest for Equality vs Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind".
Judges selection debate far from overEminent jurists are desirous of moving the Supreme Court for a clause-by-clause scrutiny of the bill to test whether it impinges the sacros...
The government should keep its hands off judiciaryThe AOR judgment of the Supreme Court was followed by a special reference dated July 23, 1998, made by the President to the Supreme Court u...
Procedure for selection of judges should not compromise the independence of judiciaryCare will have to be taken by Parliament to ensure that the composition of the Judicial Commission should not compromise the independence o...
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...