The Supreme Court today said an Aadhaar card was not mandatory for availing government social welfare schemes. The court said this while referring to the constitution bench a challenge to the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme on the grounds that it violates the right to privacy. An apex ...

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in what way it could assist the court in probing allegations that the meetings then-CBI director Ranjit Sinha had with several coal block allocation scam accused impacted utcome of the cases. The case came up for hearing before...

The government today told the Supreme Court that it wanted to ban child pornography websites, but expressed its inability to go beyond that and don the role of moral police. Addressing the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the court that the state...

The Centre on Wednesday reiterated its stand that privacy was not a fundamental right, while contesting a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme on the ground of violation of citizens’ right to privacy. Addressing the court for referring the matter to a cons...

“Hope died, man died, justice lived,” commented Rishabh Sancheti, one of Yakub Memon’s advocates, about the early-morning, eleventh hour Supreme Court hearing that ultimately failed to save his client from the noose. “Have you (heard) it happen in any other country?”

Dismissing the argument that 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s execution should have been stalled by 14 days after the rejection of his mercy plea, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Thursday said had that happened, it would have been against the “spirit of the law”. In an interview to Karan T...

SCOI Reports 28 July 2015: Yakub Abdul Razak Memon vs State of Maharashtra Through the Secretary, Home Department, and Others.

The right to privacy is not a fundamental right, argued attorney general of India Mukul Rohatgi while defending the constitutional validity of the Aadhar Card, even though his client had allegedly admitted otherwise, reported the Indian Express . Rohatgi has asked for a nine-judge bench to examine w...

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Special Task Force (STF) to take “appropriate steps” under the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Vyapam accused so that they do not take advantage of delayed action and seek bail. “Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, we permit the SIT/STF to take...

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Special Task Force (STF) to take “appropriate steps” under the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Vyapam accused so that they do not take advantage of delayed action and seek bail. “Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, we permit the SIT/STF to take...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) and extended its interim order protecting services of the additional judges till the verdict is pronounced A constitution bench of J...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) and extended its interim order protecting services of the additional judges till the verdict is pronounced A constitution bench of J...

The Supreme Court today told the CBI to probe the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh including the over 40 deaths linked to it. The BJP welcomed the ruling even as the Congress and the CPI-M sought Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s resignation. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL. Dattu h...

The Supreme Court was on Tuesday told that the entire country was suffering on account of bad politics by bad politicians, who should thus have no voice in the higher judicial appointments. “We are suffering from bad politics and we are suffering from bad politicians. Whole political class is under ...

The Supreme Court was on Tuesday told that the entire country was suffering on account of bad politics by bad politicians, who should thus have no voice in the higher judicial appointments. “We are suffering from bad politics and we are suffering from bad politicians. Whole political class is under ...

“Justice [Gyan Sudha] Misra, who although sat a little after the scheduled time, never compromised by rising just after half-an-hour. She was the last one to leave the court premises, be it the Supreme Court or High Court. There were absolutely no cause-lists that were not exhausted by her and no ju...

“Justice [Gyan Sudha] Misra, who although sat a little after the scheduled time, never compromised by rising just after half-an-hour. She was the last one to leave the court premises, be it the Supreme Court or High Court. There were absolutely no cause-lists that were not exhausted by her and no ju...

Disputing the government position, an association of apex court lawyers on Friday told the Supreme Court that parliament could not have passed the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act in August 2014 as it had no foundation in the constitution to stand on. “The passage of NJAC Act, 2014, was ...

Disputing the government position, an association of apex court lawyers on Friday told the Supreme Court that parliament could not have passed the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act in August 2014 as it had no foundation in the constitution to stand on. “The passage of NJAC Act, 2014, was ...

The government today told the Supreme Court that the tax payers had a right to know the quality of judges appointed to the higher judiciary, as it once again criticised the collegium system “of judges appointing judges - for promoting judges who reserved judgments in hundreds of cases after long hea...