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Justice Yashwant Varma. (File photo) NEW DELHI: Ahead of a possible removal motion in Parliament’s monsoon session, Justice Yashwant Varma moved Supreme Court for quashing of an in-house inquiry report holding him guilty for the huge illicit cash at his official residence in Delhi and challenged the constitutionality of then CJI Sanjiv Khanna’s recommendation to…
NEW DELHI: Observing that compelling dead marriage to continue only creates more mental agony, Supreme Court has said that courts should grant divorce in such cases when a couple cannot live under one roof.Bringing to an end the matrimonial dispute which has been going on for the last 16 years, a bench of Justices Vikram…
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: “There’s a point till which Government of India can go. We have reached that point,” attorney general of India R Venkataramani told the Supreme Court on Monday, during the hearing of a plea seeking to stall the execution of Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen. The execution is tentatively scheduled for July 16.The…
NEW DELHI: Will the Electricity Act, which regulates generation and distribution of power produced using hydel, thermal and solar energy sources, apply to electricity generated by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) governed under the Atomic Energy Act, 1962?A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan agreed to examine this question and…
Bar council of India (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: In a decisive step toward preserving the credibility of legal education in India, the bar council of India (BCI) has issued a formal advisory against the proliferation of unapproved LLM (master of laws) programmes offered in online, distance or hybrid formats. This advisory reinforces the exclusive…
Jairam Ramesh and Dattatreya Hosabale (R) NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday sharply criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), saying it has never accepted the Constitution on has been attacking its framers from the very beginning.His remarks came in response to RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, who a day earlier had said…
NEW DELHI: Lambasting the UP prisons department for illegally detaining a man for 28 days despite his release on bail, Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the state to pay an interim compensation of Rs 5 lakh to him and ordered a judicial inquiry into lapses on the part of Ghaziabad jail officials.Taking a hyper-technical approach…
NEW DELHI: Highlighting Supreme Court’s contribution in the last 75 years to accelerate political, economic and social justice to the poor and marginalised, CJI B R Gavai on Thursday told an assembly of top judges of Italy how the top court recently banned “bulldozer justice” and prevented the executive from becoming the judge, jury and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Karnataka government to take action against those trying to block the screening of Kamal Haasan’s film “Thug Life” in the southern state.A bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Manmohan said it did not want situations where someone’s sentiments are hurt by statements, leading to the…
