SC| Notice issued to Centre on plea claiming 2,000 transgenders excluded from NRC in Assam
Supreme Court: A Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde has issued a notice to the Central government on a petition claiming that
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Nirbhaya Case| SC to hear Mukesh Kumar’s petition against rejection of his mercy plea by the President tomorrow
Supreme Court : A bench headed by CJI SA Bobde has said that it will hear the writ petition filed by one
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SC|Prisoners under lawful detention can’t use Habeas corpus writ to seek pre-mature release
Supreme Court: In a case where pre-mature release of convicts was sought in terms of a Scheme framed by the Government of
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Centre moves SC seeking 7-day deadline for hanging death row convicts
Supreme Court: The Centre has moved the Supreme Court for fixing a seven-day deadline for executing death penalty of condemned prisoners. The
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Citizenship (Amendment) Act row| No stay on CAA as SC asks Centre to file response within 4 weeks
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJ and SA Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ refused to put a stay on
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Nirbhaya Case|SC yet again rejects Pawan Kumar’s plea of juvenility
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of R. Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, JJ has dismissed the Special Leave Petition filed by
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Article 370| Review all orders imposing curbs in a week and put them in public domain: SC to J&K administration [Full Report]
“While the mountains of Himalayas spell tranquillity, yet blood is shed every day.” Supreme Court: In a major verdict, the 3-judge bench
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Citizenship (Amendment) Act row| Country is going through difficult times: SC while refusing urgent hearing on plea seeking to declare CAA as constitutional
Supreme Court: Refusing urgent hearing on a plea seeking to declare the Citizenship Amendment Act as constitutional, CJI S A Bobde observed
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Nirbhaya Case| Death row convict Vinay Kumar Sharma moves curative plea in a last bid to escape the noose
Supreme Court: In a last ditch effort to escape the noose, Vinay Kumar Sharma, one of the four men sentenced to death
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Non-compliance of Rule 180 of the Army Rules, 1954 cannot be a ground for ordering a re-trial
Supreme Court: In a case where an Armed Force Tribunal ordered retrial on the ground that the procedure prescribed in Rule 180
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Object of achieving educational excellence cannot be subsided merely in the name of exercise of Right under Article 30 of the Constitution
“If the intent is to achieve excellence in education, would it be enough if the concerned educational institutions were to employ teachers
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Sabarimala| 9-judge bench to start hearing the matter from January 13
Supreme Court: A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde will hear from January 13 the issue of allowing
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Flashback 2019: From Ayodhya verdict to P. Chidambaram’s bail, here are the big Supreme Court cases that made headlines
Today marks as not only the beginning of a new year but also a new decade and it is pertinent to look
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Supreme Court Monthly Roundup – December 2019
TOP STORIES Nirbhaya Case| SC rejects review petition filed by the fourth death row convict Akshay Kumar Singh The grounds raised in the
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Call for Blogs| RGNUL Financial and Mercantile Law Review [Deadline extended]
About the Institution Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law is a National Law University located in Patiala, Punjab, India. It was established
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GLC Mumbai| Phase-I of Registrations for The GLC Debate, 2020 now open
Reported by Anjali Kumari
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SC lays down guidelines for appointment of amicus curiae where there is possibility of life sentence or death sentence
Supreme Court: Noticing that where death sentence could be one of the alternative punishments, the courts must be completely vigilant and see
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SC seeks responses from Centre & State Govts in a bid to “make criminal justice system responsive” in sexual assaults cases
Supreme Court: In a bid to make criminal justice system responsive in cases relating to sexual assaults, a 3-judge bench of SA
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Nirbhaya Case| SC rejects review petition filed by the fourth death row convict Akshay Kumar Singh [Full Report]
Supreme Court: After a brief hearing on the review petition filed by Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in the brutal
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