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"Kill PM Plot" Can't Be Vague Charge: Justice Chandrachud's Dissent View
Justice DY Chandrachud, one of three Supreme Court judges who ruled today over the arrest of five activists for alleged links to Maoist insurgents, gave a dissenting view, saying that the police appeared to be sponsoring a media trial of the accused. He said the charges against activists of involvement in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narend...
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"We Didn't Incite Anyone To Commit Crime": Top Court vs Centre On Dalit Act
Hearing the centre's request to review its own order, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it was "100 per cent" for the protection of Dalits against atrocities but no one should be "falsely implicated". The government said the court's move in March to make it more difficult to arrest people for crimes against Dalits weakened the law and amounted to ...
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Mayawati's Elephant Statues Usher New Rules About Wasting Public Money
No political party would be allowed to use public funds and government machinery to publicise its political symbol, the Election Commission has said, amid a legal tussle over elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh installed during the Bahujan Samaj Party's rule.
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Triple Talaq Has No Place In A Secular Country: Centre To Supreme Court
The centre is opposed to the Muslim practice of triple talaq, it has informed the Supreme Court, describing it as "misplaced in a secular country."
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'Triple Talaq' Violates Fundamental Rights, Woman Tells Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Centre on the plea of a Muslim woman challenging the constitutional validity of 'triple talaq' divorce. The petitioner Ishrat Jahan had appealed that divorce through spoken words violated fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
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Supreme Court Notice To Lawyers, Police Over JNU Hearing Violence
The Supreme Court has issued notices to three lawyers caught on video leading the violence at the Delhi's Patiala House courts last week during the hearings of arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Solve It Yourself, Supreme Court Tells Delhi, Haryana On Water Crisis
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the governments of Delhi and Haryana to cooperate and solve the water crisis in the national capital triggered by violent Jat reservation protesters who damaged supply lines.
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Italian Marine Given More Time To Return to India After Official Said He Won't
One of the two Italian marines accused of murdering fishermen off the coast of Kerala almost four years ago has been given till mid-April by the Supreme Court to return to India and face trial.
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Maggi Return Challenged By Food Safety Regulator in Supreme Court
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India or FSSAI has moved the Supreme Court against Nestle's instant noodles Maggi, challenging a Bombay High Court order that had lifted a ban on the popular snack that had been banned after reports that some packets contained unsafe levels of lead.
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Probe Panel Investigating ex-CBI Director Ranjit Sinha Seeks His Vistors' Diary
A copy of original visitors' diary from the official residence of Ranjit Sinha has been sought by the team investigating the former CBI director in 2G scam case.
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Jain 'Santhara' Ritual of Fast Unto Death Can Continue for Now, Says Court
For now, a tradition of Jains that sees themselves starving to death has been permitted by the Supreme Court.
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Yakub Memon New Appeal Against Hanging, Family Visits Him
Yakub Memon, convicted for helping plan and execute the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993, has appealed again to the Supreme Court to stop his hanging, scheduled for July 30. His wife visited him in jail in Nagpur today.
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Only PM, President, Chief Justice Can Feature in Government Ads, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has today said that government ads can feature pictures of only the Prime Minister, the President, and the Chief Justice of India, but said, "Even these three personalities will have to approve whether their photos will be there."
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'You Are Delaying The Case,' Says Supreme Court to Murder Accused Italian Marine
The Supreme Court today granted one of the two Italian marines' request for an extended medical leave, while expressing anguish over the delay of the trial.
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Challenges Summons in Coal Scam Case
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has moved the Supreme Court against the order of a court that summoned him as an accused in a coal scam case.
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"Kill PM Plot" Can't Be Vague Charge: Justice Chandrachud's Dissent View
Justice DY Chandrachud, one of three Supreme Court judges who ruled today over the arrest of five activists for alleged links to Maoist insurgents, gave a dissenting view, saying that the police appeared to be sponsoring a media trial of the accused. He said the charges against activists of involvement in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narend...
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"We Didn't Incite Anyone To Commit Crime": Top Court vs Centre On Dalit Act
Hearing the centre's request to review its own order, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it was "100 per cent" for the protection of Dalits against atrocities but no one should be "falsely implicated". The government said the court's move in March to make it more difficult to arrest people for crimes against Dalits weakened the law and amounted to ...
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Mayawati's Elephant Statues Usher New Rules About Wasting Public Money
No political party would be allowed to use public funds and government machinery to publicise its political symbol, the Election Commission has said, amid a legal tussle over elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh installed during the Bahujan Samaj Party's rule.
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Triple Talaq Has No Place In A Secular Country: Centre To Supreme Court
The centre is opposed to the Muslim practice of triple talaq, it has informed the Supreme Court, describing it as "misplaced in a secular country."
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'Triple Talaq' Violates Fundamental Rights, Woman Tells Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Centre on the plea of a Muslim woman challenging the constitutional validity of 'triple talaq' divorce. The petitioner Ishrat Jahan had appealed that divorce through spoken words violated fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
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Supreme Court Notice To Lawyers, Police Over JNU Hearing Violence
The Supreme Court has issued notices to three lawyers caught on video leading the violence at the Delhi's Patiala House courts last week during the hearings of arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Solve It Yourself, Supreme Court Tells Delhi, Haryana On Water Crisis
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the governments of Delhi and Haryana to cooperate and solve the water crisis in the national capital triggered by violent Jat reservation protesters who damaged supply lines.
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Italian Marine Given More Time To Return to India After Official Said He Won't
One of the two Italian marines accused of murdering fishermen off the coast of Kerala almost four years ago has been given till mid-April by the Supreme Court to return to India and face trial.
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Maggi Return Challenged By Food Safety Regulator in Supreme Court
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India or FSSAI has moved the Supreme Court against Nestle's instant noodles Maggi, challenging a Bombay High Court order that had lifted a ban on the popular snack that had been banned after reports that some packets contained unsafe levels of lead.
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Probe Panel Investigating ex-CBI Director Ranjit Sinha Seeks His Vistors' Diary
A copy of original visitors' diary from the official residence of Ranjit Sinha has been sought by the team investigating the former CBI director in 2G scam case.
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Jain 'Santhara' Ritual of Fast Unto Death Can Continue for Now, Says Court
For now, a tradition of Jains that sees themselves starving to death has been permitted by the Supreme Court.
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Yakub Memon New Appeal Against Hanging, Family Visits Him
Yakub Memon, convicted for helping plan and execute the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993, has appealed again to the Supreme Court to stop his hanging, scheduled for July 30. His wife visited him in jail in Nagpur today.
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Only PM, President, Chief Justice Can Feature in Government Ads, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has today said that government ads can feature pictures of only the Prime Minister, the President, and the Chief Justice of India, but said, "Even these three personalities will have to approve whether their photos will be there."
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'You Are Delaying The Case,' Says Supreme Court to Murder Accused Italian Marine
The Supreme Court today granted one of the two Italian marines' request for an extended medical leave, while expressing anguish over the delay of the trial.
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Challenges Summons in Coal Scam Case
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has moved the Supreme Court against the order of a court that summoned him as an accused in a coal scam case.
