SC refuses to interfere with environmental nod for Kozhikode-Wayanad tunnelThe Supreme Court has dismissed a plea against the environmental clearance for the Kozhikode-Wayanad tunnel. The court stated the project i...
Can women be stripped of their religious identity after marrying outside their faith? Supreme Court to decide in inter-faith marriage caseThe Supreme Court of India will examine a constitutional challenge alleging gender discrimination in Parsi personal laws. A Parsi woman's p...
SC to hear plea against HC order staying sale, manufacture of plaster of Paris Ganesha idolsThe Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging a Madras High Court order that stayed the sale and manufacture of Ganesha idols mad...
Supreme Court verdict on pleas challenging the government's 2016 decision to demonetise currency todayThe top court had, on December 7, directed the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India to put on record the relevant records relating to the g...
SC reserves verdict on demonetisation pleas, directs Centre, RBI to place related recordsReserving its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the Centre's 2016 decision, a five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice S A Naz...
Ex-facie breach of Article in removal of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons: SP Group tells SCThe apex court had on January 10 granted relief to Tata group by staying the NCLAT order of December 18 last year by which Mistry was resto...
UIDAI indirectly seeding bank accounts with Aadhaar: OpponentsSenior advocate Shyam Divan, lead counsel for a host of activists opposing the mandatory nature of the scheme, accused the UIDAI of ‘resort...
How can SC intervene in marriage of consenting adults?: CJI Dipak MisraSenior advocate Shyam Divan said such a position was valid when a woman was not under the guardianship of a stranger.
‘Judges not bound by petitioner’s feelings’The tag ‘Aadhaar judge’ did not go down well with the bench and Justice Chandrachud said, “I take strong exception to this remark."
Supreme Court judge, opponents raise pitch on AadhaarShyam Divan, the lead counsel for the petitioners, said: “Leakages were not sufficient to justify such aggregation of data on such a large ...
Sharing biometrics unsafe: Aadhaar opponents argued in Supreme CourtThe government does not even have a contract with these entities, neither does the UIDAI (that manages the data),” senior advocate Shyam Di...
Strike down Aadhaar law: Opponents in Supreme CourtDivan also told the court to direct authorities to destroy all data collected from 2009 till 2016, when the law was enacted to give the sch...
Mandatory Aadhaar will make us slaves: PIL in Supreme CourtAppearing before a bench of Justices, advocate Shyam Divan contended that making Aadhaar mandatory would be violative of the citizens’ fund...
Get back $40 million or appear in court: Banks to MallyaMallya got the money from the sale of his share in the ub group to UK major Diagieo.
SC seeks Mallya's response on banks plea on transfer of $40 mn to his childrenThe bench of Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice A.M.Khanwilkar sought response from Mallya after senior counsel Shyam Divan told the court o...
Data collection by pvt agencies for Aadhaar not a good idea: SCA bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar made the remarks after senior advocate Shyam Divan sought urgent hearing of the plea citing priv...
SC re-appoints receivers, seeks status report on SYL canalThe three officers were earlier appointed receivers on March 17 on the plea of Haryana and they were given power to take possession of the ...