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NEW DELHI: The central government on Friday told Supreme Court that it couldn’t formally intervene in the Nimisha Priya execution case, and the petitioner’s counsel added that the victim’s family’s “forgiveness” was the first step to get the Kerala nurse’s life pardoned.“I don’t think anything formally can happen at this point of time,” PTI quoted…
File photo: Nimisha Priya NEW DELHI: Running against time to save the life of a nurse from Kerala, Nimisha Priya, whose death sentence is to be executed on July 16 in Yemen, government on Monday told Supreme Court that it was making all efforts to reach out to her but cannot do much because of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stated that citizens must recognise the value of freedom of speech and expression and called for practising self-regulation as it considered guidelines to regulate offensive posts on social media. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and K V Viswanathan was hearing the case of Wazahat Khan, who…
Ex-CJI DY Chandrachud (File photo) NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court administration has written to the Centre seeking possession of the official residence of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) at the Krishna Menon Marg in the national capital.In a July 1 letter to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA),…
Supreme Court of India (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Is there a ‘Sabak’ (lesson) in the film ‘Kahani-2’ for producer-director Sanjay Ghosh? The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to adjudicate Ghosh’s petition against criminal proceedings initiated against him in a Hazaribagh court by one Umesh Prasad Mehta, who accused Ghosh of lifting from his literary…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a plea by a group of government doctors challenging their transfer orders from Bengaluru, remarking that the city’s cosmopolitan lifestyle is “very alluring” but not grounds to resist relocation. A bench comprising Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran observed that there was no prejudice…
NEW DELHI: Should an individual’s eligibility to OBC quota be solely determined by his father’s caste? A Supreme Court bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotishwar Singh agreed to examine the issue raised by a single OBC mother for her son.Significantly, additional solicitor general S D Sanjay, representing the Centre, also favoured the…
