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Judgements on decriminalising adultery, same-sex consensual relationship 'not a good law': Centre in SCThe Centre has informed the Supreme Court that landmark judgments on adultery and same-sex relationships were based on subjective 'constitu...- Centre backs restriction on women's Sabarimala entry in SC, says religious faith beyond judicial reviewThe Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the Sabarimala temple entry issue is a matter of religious faith. Solicitor General Tushar M...
- My rival not speaking, debate would take place if both candidates speak: INDIA bloc's VP candidate B Sudershan ReddyINDIA bloc's Vice Presidential candidate B Sudershan Reddy criticized his NDA rival C P Radhakrishnan for not engaging in debate. Reddy hig...
- There's no place for majoritarian judgesAllahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav's open endorsement of majoritarian views and derogatory remarks about Muslim clerics at a VH...
- Constitution of India expects judicial independence, impartiality: AIMIM chief OwaisiAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi criticized a High Court judge's alleged remarks about the country running according to the majority's wishes. ...
- Wholly wrong to assume minorities need 'safe haven' for education: Supreme Court Justice Satish Chandra SharmaSupreme Court Justice Satish Chandra Sharma stated that assuming minorities need a "safe haven" for education is incorrect. He emphasized t...
- Institutions are not just about mandateThe proposed judicial reforms curtail Israel's Supreme Court's power to revoke laws, give politicians the power to appoint judges and the K...
- Prophet row: Ex-bureaucrats seek top court's intervention to check 'bulldozing' in UPThe signatories include former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai, former Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, former Indian Police Service (IPS) ...
- Bills getting passed without debate, Parliament to soon become rubber stamp: Former Madras HC judgeThe retired judge, instrumental behind several landmark verdicts involving caste-based discrimination and gender-related issues, was speaki...
- Constitution is North Star against which every State action, inaction has to be judged, says Supreme Court judge DY ChandrachudHe said that India as a nation was united with a promise of certain commitments and entitlements to each and every citizen like religious f...
- There wasn’t any malice in Prashant Bhushan’s remarks, says counsel Dushyant DaveSenior advocate Dave contended that Bhushan’s remarks amounted to fair criticism of the court and were not intended to scandalise the court...
- Peaceful dissent cannot be dubbed anti-national: SC Judge Deepak Gupta"A citizen has the right to get together (with other citizens) and protest but in a peaceful manner. The government is not always right. We...
- Cases with court-monitored probe showed better outcome: Dhananjaya Chandrachud"We see this repeatedly..This is one of the great torments of being a judge to have to decide on the basis of evidence as it stands," the S...
- View: Tough questions galore as third pillar of ‘secular’ India fallsThe fading away of that third important pillar of non-majoritarianism leaves us with just the first two.
- Section 377: Supreme Court rewrites history, homosexuality no longer a crimeA five judge bench unanimously diluted sec 377 to exclude all kinds of adult consensual sexual behaviour.
- Court's duty to strike down law if it violates fundamental right: SCCourts are not in obligation to wait and would act if any violation of fundamental right was brought before it: SC
- How SC’s Section 377 approach took a 180° turnSC's decision to review its own four-year-old verdict criminalising consensual sexual relationship in private between adults of same gender...
- Supreme Court to resume hearing from June 8 on pleas against NJACThe Supreme Court will resume tomorrow hearing arguments on the constitutional validity of the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJ...
- Majoritarianism can never dictate policy decisions or legislationsMore importantly, 2002 post-Godhra riots had piggybacked Modi for more than a decade, which had made even the optimists skeptical about his...
- 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...
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