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Justice Ujjal Bhuyan’s remarks on voting rights have revived a difficult question of judicial ethics: when does an academic address begin to anticipate the work of the court?

Court held that Section 187(2) of BNSS enlarges the window during which police custody may be sought

Jairam Ramesh shared a media report which quoted the pre-publication manuscript of Justice Kaul’s memoir ‘Without Fear of Favour’ as stating that former Chief Justice of India Justice D.Y. Chandrachud was “too deferential to the Government” when it came to appointments

While all the 28 villages under Kotia Gram Panchayat remain in Odisha territory, Andhra Pradesh has been claiming its rights over 21 villages. Odisha challenged this in the Supreme Court in 1968 and the court asked both States to maintain the status quo in 2006

The judgment by a Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said the law does not insist that only public servants or competent authorities were eligible to lodge complaints against electoral candidates

Releasing a book of evidence photographs, the YSRCP president Jagan Mohan Reddy alleges torn nomination papers, forged withdrawal letters and attacks on the party’s candidates

The Supreme Court has asked the State Election Commission to decide where candidates were unable to file nominations

How does Indian law define ‘untouchability’? How has the Supreme Court interpreted ‘purity and pollution’? What did the Rajasthan High Court rule on purification? What facts would determine whether the Haldwani ritual amounted to untouchability?

The comments of the opposition party leaders on the Supreme Court verdict reflects their litigant mindset, observes the TDP national president and Chief Minister, while exhorting the party MLAs, MPs, candidates and booth-level activists to work for the victory of the alliance candidates

Dismissing the opposition party’s claim that the court reprimanded the State Election Commission, the TDP legal cell says the court mandated the election body to take a decision on giving aggrieved candidates extra time for filing nominations by the end of October 22 based on merits of the complaints and evidence it has

The Supreme Court clarified that it had made no observations on the merits of the FIR. It also refrained from expressing any opinion on the validity of a subsequent Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) registered against the petitioners

On July 7, the high court upheld the death sentences of 38 operatives of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen in the serial-bomb-blasts case

The significant observation was made by a Bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria in its judgment delivered on October 16

The Gauhati High Court granted bail to the cultural icon’s co-singer Amritprabha Mahanta and cousin Sandipan Garg on October 9 and 16

The controversy in the case of Secretary to Government versus Sameer Ahamed N. began with a man, born to Hindu parents in 1993 at Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu, voluntarily converting to Islam in September 2015

The MAITC MP had approached the top court seeking guidelines to ensure cooperation from local authorities and the police during visits to her constituency

The apex court stays the trial proceedings while noting that the bail applications filed by the husband and the mother-in-law will be decided within two weeks.

The top court had directed that no coercive action be taken against a woman journalist, against whom a case has been filed by a Delhi Police officer alleging casteist remarks and public humiliation against him during a protest near the Jantar Mantar

A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi deferred the matter after Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju informed it that a reply has been filed in the matter

“Social backwardness does not arise in a day or a generation. It is the result of a social system built over thousands of years. Conversion to another religion does not erase it,” he said in a statement

The court held that a Tamil Nadu government order doing the same creates an “artificial group” which would access benefits of reservation associated with backward communities

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has called for a ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ gathering at Central Park, Connaught Place, in Delhi, on October 16

India’s Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge Thursday to the country’s contentious voter-roll revision, as opposition parties seek to halt the exercise and scrutinize the conduct of the top election official following days of protests and mass detentions.

Detainees demand independent inquiry into police action, preservation of CCTV footage and return of their phones and other belongings

‘At present, only persons purchasing tickets online are provided the benefit of insurance coverage upon payment of a nominal additional amount’

Protests in Delhi’s outskirts will be far from the earshot of ordinary citizens and the corridors of power, diminishing their impact, plea says; notes that no SOPs have been laid out for alternative venues

Independent journalist Abhishek Upadhyay had authored investigative stories of the alleged misappropriation and theft of donations at the Ayodhya Ram Temple

The application has asked the court to direct the EC to frame an appropriate mechanism for restoration/inclusion of deleted voters without forcing them to apply as first-time voters

Bench takes a cautious approach, saying the case of Beant Singh murder convict is sensitive, and even the Punjab government seems to be reluctant

As per the Supreme Court's website, the apex court registry had flagged 14 defects, including lack of a clear copy of the ID card of Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, a co-petitioner in the case