PIL pile-up: 42-year-old case lingers as Supreme Court backlog swells to over 3,500India's Supreme Court faces a crisis with over 3,500 public interest litigations pending. Many cases have been stuck for years, some for de...
17 Mar, 2026, 03.05 PM IST
Income-Tax Department probes restaurants for hidden salesThe Income-Tax Department is currently investigating restaurants across multiple cities. This action follows a Hyderabad probe that uncover...
09 Mar, 2026, 05.32 PM IST
Supreme Court rejects PIL for mandatory disclosure of drug side effects by doctorsThe Supreme Court rejected a plea requiring doctors to list all drug side effects for patients in their regional language. The court deemed...
14 Nov, 2024, 07.33 PM IST
SC rejects PIL seeking data on alleged discrepancies in counting of votes in general electionsSupreme Court dismisses PIL seeking vote count data disclosure for recent general elections. Bench states elections are completed, governme...
12 Jul, 2024, 08.13 PM IST
Hathras stampede: SC rejects PIL seeking probe; asks to move HCThe Supreme Court of India has dismissed a PIL seeking an investigation into the tragic Hathras stampede that left 121 dead. The court, com...
12 Jul, 2024, 12.37 PM IST
Mathura: SC stays implementation of Allahabad HC order for court-monitored survey of Shahi Idgah adjoining Krishna Janmabhoomi templeOn January 5, the SC had dismissed an appeal against the Allahabad High Court order which rejected a PIL seeking recognition of the Mosque ...
16 Jan, 2024, 12.11 PM IST
SC adjourns Hemant Soren plea against Jharkhand HC orderJharkhand Govt and state CM Hemant Soren has moved SC against an order of the high court which had accepted maintainability of PIL in conne...
28 Jul, 2022, 03.55 PM IST
SC dismisses PIL seeking 100 % matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs during vote counting on May 23A three-judge bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi directed EC to do an EVM-VVPAT tally of at least five polling stations randomly picked from eve...
22 May, 2019, 08.42 AM IST
Supreme Court to hear plea against Mamata Banerjee’s Rs 28-cr grant to puja pandals todaySC to hear a PIL that said the decision was against the country’s secular ethos and could arouse communal passions.
12 Oct, 2018, 07.16 AM IST
Supreme Court slaps Rs 10 lakh fine on Bihar MLA for filing 'frivolous' PIL"We fail to understand what prompted the petitioner to file the petition before the high court in 2015 in respect of an article published i...
11 Feb, 2017, 11.26 AM IST
PIL introduced 35 years ago, yet no clarity on who can file itPILs have touched all issues under the sun. It has become a fashion to file a PIL and seek immediate publicity in the media
12 Dec, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
Ranbaxy gains momentum as SC rejects PILRanjit Kapadia, Senior VP, Centrum Broking doesn’t expect too much upside in the stock. The outcome was on expected lines, he said to ET No...
25 Jun, 2013, 11.51 AM IST
Supreme Court dismisses plea challenging $8.5 billion Cairn-Vedanta dealThe loss figures were attributed to the CAG report, but a bench, comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, rejected the plea.
09 May, 2013, 02.31 PM IST
Supreme Court admits fixing Petrol prices government prerogativeThe Supreme Court has rejected a petition to fix the price of petroleum products. It falls within the domain of the government, it said.
10 Apr, 2012, 10.00 AM IST
- Relief for Advani as SC rejects PIL in Babri case
BJP’S prime ministerial candidate LK Advani and others facing trial in the Babri Masjid demolition cases got a relief of sorts when the Sup...
11 Feb, 2009, 03.44 AM IST
- SC rejects PIL on tax returns by parties
SC refused to entertain PIL seeking I-T returns from parties.
15 Nov, 2008, 03.49 AM IST
- SC rejects PIL on SEZ agri land acquisition
The SC on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking direction restraining the government from acquiring agricultural land for the SEZs.
23 Sep, 2008, 02.43 AM IST