shashi tharoor 2018 defamatory statements against PM Modi
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Shashi Tharoor while addressing the audience at the Bangalore Literature Festival in 2018 had quoted lines from the article published by the Caravan magazine and which said that “Mr. Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling; you cannot remove him with your hand, and you cannot hit it with a chappal either.”

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“Supreme Court said that it was constrained to take suo motu notice of the 17-07-2024 order as such orders intend to bring entire judicial machinery to disrepute and it also lowers dignity of the High Court as well and such observations were wholly unnecessary”

contempt jurisdiction
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Supreme Court reiterated that in addition to punishing a contemnor for disobeying its orders, the Court can also ensure that such a contemnor does not continue to enjoy the benefits of his disobedience by merely suffering the punishment meted out to him.

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The Government and its public officer; from which it must be inferred that the terms Government and public officer cannot be conflated to be one-and-the-same. Thus, the description of the defendant as “Rajya Sabha Secretariat, through its Secretary General” cannot be taken to mean that the Rajya Sabha Secretariat and the Secretary General are one and-the-same thing or that relief has been sought against the Secretary General.

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A workable arrangement had to be arrived at to segregate people who may have no rights in the land and those who have, coupled with rehabilitation schemes

Madras High Court
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Madras High Court: In a case relating to a writ petition filed by Tamil Nadu electricity minister V. Senthil Balaji for issuance

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by Deepak Singh†

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Supreme Court: Clarifying the legal position on expiry of stay, the 3-judge bench of RF Nariman, Navin Sinha and KM Joseph, JJ