As per news report of The Indian Express, the Delhi High Court asked the Income Tax Department to ensure the safety of the data it downloaded during a recent IT survey at the Newslaundry office after the news portal and its Co-Founder Abhinandan Sekhri moved the court seeking a direction against leaking of his private | Read more|
The Supreme Court Wednesday gave the centre a “final” time of two weeks to make appointments to the various Tribunals across the country even as it expressed displeasure on “cherry-picking” names from the list of those recommended for the various posts. | Read more|
The Supreme Court has orally observed that it will not reopen the issues settled by it in its 2018 judgment on the reservation in promotions in government jobs for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). | Read more|
The Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to reconsider its decision to not treat death by suicide of a person infected with Covid-19 as deaths occurring due to coronavirus. | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned till September 13 the hearing in a batch of cases seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping row after the Centre sought more time. | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Monday rapped the government over the delay in filling up the vacancies in Tribunals, Live Law reported. The bench also came down harshly on the Centre for passing Tribunals Reforms Act, which the Court termed a “virtual replica of the provisions struck down by the Court”. | Read more|
The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh’s plea challenging the FIR registered by CBI against him in connection with the allegations of corruption levelled by former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh. | Read more|
Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, the second most senior judge of the Supreme Court, retires Thursday and his exit, apart from adding to the vacancy list, will return the spotlight on the unprecedented impasse within the Collegium over appointment of judges that has been there for nearly 22 months now. | Read more|
As per news report of The Indian Express, the centre on tuesday told Delhi High Court that Twitter is now in compliance with the IT Rules, 2021, after the micro-blogging site last week appointed a full-time Chief Compliance Officer-cum-Resident Grievance Officer and a Nodal Contact Officer. | Read more|
The Supreme Court, while hearing a clutch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets of snooping, said “the allegations are serious if the media reports c | Read more|
As protests seeking justice for the 9-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped, killed and forcibly cremated on Sunday, continued in South West Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the girl’s family on Wednesday morning. “I spoke with the family, they want justice & nothing else. They’re saying that jus | Read more|
Stating that Jharkhand Police was “feeding questions” to get “a particular answer”, which is “not appreciated”, the Jharkhand High Court Tuesday came down heavily on the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged murder of Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand. | Read more|
The request for a special investigation into the Pegasus scandal involving allegations that opposition politicians, journalists and others were targets of Israeli spyware, will be taken up next week, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said today. | Read more|
Ruling that the health and right to life of citizens is paramount, the Supreme Court today asked the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider its decision to allow the Kanwar Yatra amid the coronavirus pandemic. " | Read more|
Describing the British-era sedition law as "colonial", the Supreme Court today questioned whether the law was "still necessary after 75 years of Independence". The law is a serious threat to the functioning of institutions and holds "enormous power" for misuse with no accountability for the executive, the court said, c | Read more|