The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the anticipatory bail granted to Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Giri in connection with a child sexual abuse complaint registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that the Supreme Court's ruling on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls "exposed" that Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi and Congress "stood" with the infiltrations.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Election Commission of India’s decision to undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, holding that the revision exercise was within the constitutional and statutory powers of the poll body and was aimed at preserving the integrity of the electoral process. A Bench of Chief.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to deliver a crucial verdict on Wednesday on a series of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) move to carry out a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi is scheduled to.
Setting aside an Allahabad High Court order granting bail to an accused in an attempt to murder and Arms Act case, a Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N.K. Singh observed that the impugned decision had ignored settled principles governing successive bail applications and failed to consider the accused’s conduct after cancellation of bail by the apex court.
As the Supreme Court heard the case related to the death of former actor-model Twisha Sharma, her family's lawyer Anurag Srivastava on Monday said the apex court’s intervention has brought great satisfaction to the family, which had earlier struggled to get its concerns heard.
During the hearing, the apex court observed that the suo motu proceedings were initiated in the backdrop of a narrative suggesting institutional bias in the investigation, particularly as the husband of the deceased is an advocate and her mother-in-law a retired judicial officer.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the National Testing Agency (NTA) and other authorities on pleas seeking structural reforms in the conduct of the NEET-UG examination, including an immediate transition to a computer-based testing (CBT) mode in the wake of the alleged 2026 paper leak controversy.
A division bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale granted interim bail to Tasleem Ahmed and Khalid Saifi for a six-month period on various conditions.
Responding to this, Justice Nagarathna noted that the EWS category is characterised solely by economic backwardness, whereas it does not involve social backwardness
