Supreme Court

Supreme Court To Have Full Strength Of Judges For First Time Since 2008

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 23, 2019

The Supreme Court will have its full strength of judges for the first time since 2008 when Parliament had increased the number of judges from 26 to 31.

Saradha Scam: Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Ex-Kolkata Police Commissioner's Plea

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 23, 2019

The former police commissioner was granted protection from arrest for a seven-day period which is expiring on May 24.

Top Court Gets 4 New Judges As Collegium Overrules Centre's Objections

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Wednesday May 22, 2019

Four new judges are likely to be sworn in as Supreme Court justices soon, taking the total to the court's full strength of 31 for the first time in five years. Justices Aniruddha Bose, AS Bopanna, Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai and Surya Kant have been elevated to the top court.

Top Court Grants BJP Bengal Candidate Protection From Arrest For 5 Days

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 22, 2019

Supreme Court on Wednesday granted protection from arrest till May 28 to Arjun Singh, a BJP candidate from Barrackpore constituency in West Bengal, in various criminal cases lodged against him by the state police.

Top Court Rejects Plea Against Special Observers' Appointment In Bengal

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 21, 2019

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea challenging the appointment of two retired bureaucrats as observers in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha polls.

Top Court Stays High Court Order Stopping Retrospective Black Money Law

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 21, 2019

The Supreme Court today stayed the Delhi High Court order which had held that the 2016 black money law cannot be allowed to operate with retrospective effect from July 2015 to book and probe offenders.

Top Court Refuses To Set Up Special Bench For Ex-Kolkata Top Cop's Plea

India News | ANI | Tuesday May 21, 2019

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to set up special bench to hear former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar's plea seeking extension of the seven-day period granted to him to approach a competent court after his protection from arrest was vacated in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam.

Mulayam Singh, Akhilesh Yadav Get CBI Clean Chit In Disproportionate Assets Case

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday May 21, 2019

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court gave clean chits to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers Mulayam Singh and Akhilesh Yadav among others named in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.

Election 2019 - "Nonsense": Top Court Rejects Request On Counting Of 100% VVPATs

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Tuesday May 21, 2019

The Supreme Court today dismissed a request seeking 100 per cent matching of VVPAT or voter paper trail slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during counting of votes on Thursday for the national election.

Top Court To Hear Tomorrow Centre's Plea On Black Money Law Applicability

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 20, 2019

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear on Tuesday the centre's plea challenging the Delhi High Court order staying its notification to allow the 2016 black money law to operate with retrospective effect from July, 2015 to book and probe offenders.

Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Moves Supreme Court, Seeks Extension Of Protection

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 20, 2019

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar today moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of the seven-day protection granted to him by the top court in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam case.

No Top Court Reprieve For Mayawati's Party Candidate, Accused Of Rape

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 17, 2019

The Supreme Court Friday refused to grant interim protection from arrest to a SP-BSP alliance candidate from Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, who was seeking relief till May 23 in a rape case registered against him.

Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Gets 7 Days To Seek Protection From Arrest By CBI

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday May 17, 2019

Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar has been given seven days to seek protection from arrest by the CBI for his alleged role in destroying evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam in West Bengal when he was heading the probe.

Death Row Convict Was 12-Years-Old When Crime Committed, Top Court Told

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 17, 2019

A death row convict in jail for 24 years for killing seven people, including two kids, should not have been given death penalty as he was a 12-year-old at the time of the crime, according to a report filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Muslim Woman Against Divorce Notices

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 17, 2019

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Muslim woman's plea challenging the two Talaq notices given by her husband and sought direction for registration of FIR against him.