Triple Talaq| SC issues notice to Centre on plea challenging the new law
Supreme Court: The bench of NV Ramana and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has agreed to examine the validity of a newly enacted law
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Babri Masjid demolition| Special Judge conducting trail involving LK Advani & others writes to SC seeking protection
Supreme Court: The bench of RF Nariman and Surya Kant, JJ has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to pass orders within two
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INX Media Case| No relief for P. Chidambaram today; SC to hear his bail plea on Aug 26
Supreme Court: The Court has said that it will hear the appeal filed by former union minister P Chidambaram against the Delhi
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High Court, being the disciplinary authority, has the power to suspend Judicial Officers: SC
Supreme Court: In a case where a Judicial Officer in Delhi Higher Judicial Services, against whom disciplinary proceedings alleging sexual harassment is
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Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: Justice AK Patnaik completes inquiry into ‘larger conspiracy’ allegations
Supreme Court: A Supreme Court-appointed one-man panel, holding inquiry into allegations of “larger conspiracy” to frame Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi,
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Ayodhya hearing| Babri Masjid was built either on the ruins of Ram Mandir or by pulling it down: Ram Lalla’s counsel
Supreme Court: On the 8th Day of the Ayodhya Title dispute hearing, Ram Lalla’s counsel, Senior Advocate CS Vaidyanathan, told the 5-judge
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Merely because the period fixed for liquidation is over, the proceedings for recovery of dues do not stand closed: SC
Supreme Court: When the 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ was called upon to decide whether under
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Linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar: SC issues notice to social media websites on Facebook’s transfer plea
Supreme Court: While hearing Facebook Inc’s petition asking Supreme Court to hear all cases related to demands for linking Aadhaar to social
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SC rejects Tarun Tejpal’s plea for quashing sexual assault charges
Supreme Court: The bench of Arun Mishra and MR Shah, JJ has refused to quash the charges against Tarun Tejpal, former editor-in-chief
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Ayodhya hearing| Excavations show that a massive Lord Ram temple existed at the disputed site: Ram Lalla’s counsel
Supreme Court: On the 7th Day of the Ayodhya Title dispute hearing, Ram Lalla’s counsel, Senior Advocate CS Vaidyanathan, told the 5-judge bench
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Article 370| Won’t rush into passing any direction on removal of restrictions on the media in J&K: SC
Supreme Court: After the Centre submitted before the Court that the situation is improving in Jammu and Kashmir and the curbs are
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Ayodhya hearing| Court shouldn’t go beyond rationality of belief of Ayodhya being Lord Ram’s birthplace: Ram Lalla’s counsel
Supreme Court: On Day 6 of the Ayodhya Title dispute hearing, Senior advocate C.S. Vaidyanathan, appearing for deity Ram Lalla, told the
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Ayodhya hearing| Arguments advanced on whether there was an existing temple at the disputed site
Supreme Court: On the 5th Day of the Ayodhya Title dispute hearing, arguments on whether a temple existed at the disputed site in
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Maintain ‘Aadhaar-like’ secrecy for Assam NRC Data: SC to Centre
Supreme Court: The bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and RF Nariman, J has refused to re-open the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
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Big relief for homebuyers as SC upholds the validity of the 2018 Amendments to IBC
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of RF Nariman, Sanjiv Khanna and Surya Kant, JJ has held the Amendment Act to Insolvency and
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Ayodhya hearing| SC rejects Sr Adv Rajeev Dhavan’s plea against 5-days a week hearing
Supreme Court: On the fourth day of hearing in the Ayodhya title dispute case, the counsel appearing for one of the Muslim
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Plaintiff can take a plea of adverse possession under Article 65 of Limitation Act, 1963: SC
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ has held that the Article 65 of Limitation Act, 1963 not only enables
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Social Engineer, IDIA Founder, Professor Shamnad Basheer, passes away
Legal scholar and Founder of IDIA and SpicyIP Blog, Professor Shamnad Basheer, 43, has passed away in a tragic accident in Karnataka
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Ayodhya hearing|Both Hindus & Muslims have always called the disputed site a ‘Janmasthana’: Ram Lalla’s counsel
Supreme Court: Senior Advocate K Parasaran, appearing for the Ram Lalla, one of the parties in title dispute case, has told the Supreme
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Article 370: No urgent hearing on plea challenging J&K Reorganisation Bill
Supreme Court: The bench of NV Ramana and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has refused to give urgent hearing to the plea challenging the
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