New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Delhi High Court order suspending the life sentence of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi partly allowed the special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the Delhi High Court order granting conditional bail to Sengar during the pendency of his appeal against conviction.The ap…
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New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued a slew of directions to ensure the expeditious disposal of bail applications pending before High Courts across the country, stressing that courts, investigating agencies, and governments must work in coordination to safeguard the personal liberty of undertrial prisoners without compromising victims’ rights. Expressing concern over delays in hearing bail pleas, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said bail matters…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Centre and states to establish a separate Revenue Judicial Service cadre and prescribe minimum legal qualifications for officers adjudicating land disputes. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing the plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, which contends that adjudication of title, succession, inheritanc…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Thursday a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of unilateral divorce practices in the Muslim community, including Talaq-e-Hasan and Talaq-e-Ahsan, which permit a Muslim man to dissolve a marriage without the consent of the wife. As per the cause list published on the apex court’s website, the matter is listed for hearing on March 19 before a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, and Jus…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing on a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the bail granted to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case.Due to the non-availability of Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi deferred the hearing and said that the matter would be taken up after two weeks.At the same time…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a suo motu case concerning what it described as “objectionable” references to the judiciary in a Class 8 social science textbook published by NCERT.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi will take up the matter titled ‘In Re: Social Science Textbook For Grade-8 (part-2) Published by NCERT and Ancillary Issues’.The development assumes significance as the Chief…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday appeals filed by Meta Platforms and WhatsApp LLC challenging a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order that upheld a Rs 213.14 crore penalty imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over the messaging platform’s 2021 privacy policy and data‑sharing practices.As per the causelist published on the apex court’s official website, the matter is listed before a Special Bench of Chief Justice of India…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and his wife Shwetambari in connection with Rs 30 crore fraud case. The couple was arrested from their Mumbai residence on December 7, 2025, and brought to Rajasthan after a complaint was filed against them by a Udaipur-based doctor, alleging that he had been defrauded of crores by the director on the pretext of making a film.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court has orally expressed strong disapproval over the functioning of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) in several states, remarking that it was “high time” that the governments revisited their decision to constitute the regulatory body.The observation came from a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi as it heard a special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Himachal Pradesh government challenging an order of…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three weeks’ time to the Centre to place on record the status of the probe into the Ahmedabad air crash that claimed 260 lives.A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing pleas, including one filed by the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal — the Pilot-in-Command of Air India flight AI-171 that crashed June on 12, 2025 — seeking an independent, court-monitored investigation into…