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The curious case of the Arunachal Pradesh (AP) Governor’s recommendations started in November 2011 when Nabam Tuki became Chief Minister of AP. His cousin, Nabam Rebia was appointed Speaker of the Assembly.
In April 2015, Kalikho Pul, the former Health...
The apex court heard the PIL seeking restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir given the COVID-19 outbreak on 09.04.2020. The PIL addresses the lack of access to the information given out by governmental authorities and the...
The Supreme Court observed that an arbitral award can be set aside if it is patently illegal or perverse; under Section 34 of the arbitration and Conciliation Act. The 2015 Amendment which gave statutory force to Section 34(2A), inserted...
A year and a half ago, 39 Indians were taken hostage by ISIS from a construction site in Mosul, Iraq. On June 30, 2015, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, a lawyer filed an RTI to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...
A petition was listed before the Supreme Court on the use of Unani and Homeopathic medicines to treat COVID-19 on April 15, 2020. The petitioner argued that there are no medicines or treatments available for the novel coronavirus. Thus,...
Advocate Reepak Kansal has filed a Public interest litigation before the Supreme Court. The plea sought directions from the court for impartiality and equal treatment in the matters of listing cases. The registry must resfrain from adopting 'pick and...
The Tablighi Jamaat held the annual religious congregation at Nizamuddin, Delhi from 13.03.2020 to 15.03.2020. In essence, at a time when the pandemic was spreading. Several people from across the country and abroad attended the event. Subsequently, many attendees...
The Apex Court stayed investigation or any coercive action against the News18 anchor Amish Devgan. Multiple FIRs were lodged against the anchor in May, over his condemnable remarks on Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. The court, in the present...
A Special leave petition was filed by a thirty-three-year-old pregnant woman before the Supreme Court. The Petition challenged the order passed by Bombay High Court dated May 22, 2020; wherein the Court dismissed the petition. The petition seeks termination...
A doctor filed a PIL in SC seeking a direction to the Centre to require all state governments compulsorily to start the rapid antibody testing as a screening tool for COVID-19. Advocate Rishi Jain bought in the petition.
On April...
A petition challenged the Constitutional validity of the notifications issued by various State Governments; suspending the operation of certain labour laws with respect to working hours, wages, health and safety conditions before the Supreme Court. Nandini Praveen, a law...
Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017.
Current Chief Justice Dattu has...
In a first for the Supreme Court, the single-judge benches will be hearing certain kinds of petitions from May 13, 2020. The purpose of introducing a new system is to dispose of piled up pending cases. The number of...
‘Pravasi Legal Cell’ through its secretary Bins Sebastian filed PIL in the Supreme Court. The PIL seeks directions to the Centre and the DGCA to ask airlines to refund the full amount of the tickets of flights cancelled due...
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC); has recommended granting of Environmental Clearance (EC) to the expansion and renovation of the existing Parliament building. The EAC, in its meetings held...
The Hon'ble Chief Justice of India declared the five-week summer vacation period to be a period of functioning of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. The said summer vacation was from 18th May to 19th June (both days inclusive). The requests...
Two advocates and a Social Worker filed a rather tendentious petition before the Supreme Court of India. The said petition seeks deletion of the words 'Secular' and 'Socialist' from the Preamble and Section 29A (5) of the Representation of...
The Supreme Court, on May 19, 2020, declined to transfer the investigation into the First Information Reports (FIRs); filed against journalist Arnab Goswami to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Complaints Against Arnab Goswami
Goswami approached the Court for quashing of...
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Bureau of Immigration that arrival of corpses and remains of Indian nationals/OCI cardholders from foreign countries are allowed. However, this also depends on directions issued by various departments in relation to...
In a major development, the Supreme Court on May 8, 2020, directed the CBI Court in Lucknow to conduct the proceedings of the decades-old Babri Masjid demolition case. In May 2017, the special CBI court charged BJP leaders L.K...
The Supreme Court questioned the Government of Haryana over a policy of granting remission in view of the release of a murder convict. This is directed towards convicts who are imprisoned for life, aged 75 years (in case of...
A PIL favoured in the Supreme Court seeks intervention and directions to the central government to issue guidelines to prevent the attacks on certain communities by religious, racial and caste profiling.
Restrain Religious & Community Profiling
The abovementioned PIL is preferred...
The Union Government is planning to set up an All India Judicial Service by March 2022. The Law ministry will complete the consultation process with the High Courts and Supreme Court to resolve issues and conflicts.
The concept of...
The Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Centre regarding a PIL filed by Avishek Goenka in the Apex Court. The PIL prayed for specifying directions to the authorities to adopt a system where COVID-19 patients could receive...
While being subjected to criticism, former Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi gave the Keynote Address on “Ensuring an Independent Judiciary under our Constitution: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges” in a Webinar; the Confederation for Alumni for National Law...
Renowned Advocate Prashant Bhushan filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution. The writ petition sought quashing of the FIR registered against him. The FIR was filed by the Gujarat Police alleging that...
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the United Nurses Association has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court. They address the imminent and extreme risks posed to the health and safety of healthcare workers across India. Referring to the World...
While hearing a petition filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA), a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and N.V Ramana asked the Parliament to consider making a separate law for awarding harsher punishment to those convicted of...
A Public Interest Litigation is filed in the Supreme Court asking the Centre; to transfer all the donations from the PM CARES Fund to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) filed the plea....
On April 27, 2020, a Supreme Court employee tested positive for COVID-19. The family of the employee is put into home quarantine. The contact-tracing already initiated to ascertain the people who had come in contact with this employee. The...