New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust and sought a status report from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government on a batch of petitions seeking a court-monitored probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the handling of donations and offerings received by the Ram temple in Ayodhya.A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant directed the SIT to place before …
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New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday witnessed an unusual disruption after a litigant appearing in person allegedly hurled abuses, threw papers in open court and had to be forcibly removed from the courtroom during the hearing of his plea challenging an order of the Allahabad High Court. The incident took place before a Bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe and briefly disrupted the apex court proceedings. At the outset of the hearing, the litigant demanded registra…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the hearing on the Meghalaya government’s plea challenging the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case, till July 14 and directed the state authorities to place on record the arrest memo and other documents supplied to the accused at the time of her arrest.A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Shree Chandrashekhar did not pass any interim order staying the bail granted to Son…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the Union government on applications filed by a member of the Delhi Gymkhana Club and the Club’s Staff Welfare Association challenging the Centre’s show cause notice seeking their eviction from the historic Lutyens’ Delhi premises.A single-judge Bench of Justice Avneesh Jhingan sought the Centre’s response and posted the matter for further hearing on July 28 after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing virtually for the …
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a plea filed by the Meghalaya government challenging the High Court’s order upholding the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the sensational Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case, but declined to stay the operation of the impugned order as the accused has already been released. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Sheel Nagu directed Sonam Raghuvanshi to file a counter-affidavit and posted the matter fo…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The Meghalaya government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Meghalaya High Court’s order upholding the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the sensational Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case. The matter was mentioned before a Bench led by Justice M.M. Sundresh, with Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Meghalaya government, seeking an urgent hearing.SG Mehta submitted that bail was granted solely on the ground th…
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Moving swiftly, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Saturday put up a public notice at the Jaipur Polo Ground, near the Delhi Race Club, declaring the over 15-acre land parcel as government land. The MoHUA notice, which came a day after a favourable judicial decision, comes with a warning against unauthorised occupation.The re-possession of the Polo Ground development comes amid an ongoing dispute between the Union government and the Indian Polo Associa…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to issue any urgent directions to reopen the CBSE’s digital portal for the revaluation of answer sheets of aggrieved Class 12 students. A vacation bench comprising Justice Neena Bansal Krishna and Justice Madhu Jain observed orally that reopening the portal at this stage may impact the future admissions process for 17 lakh students.The bench said aggrieved students or their parents were free to approach the court for redressal.Earl…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Central government informed the Supreme Court on Friday that a policy is being discussed for private students of CBSE outside India whose results could not be declared due to the West Asia conflict. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged the Supreme Court to put off the hearing till June 22, as the government is currently looking into some of the questions raised in the petition filed by students living in the Gulf.He said that a policy will soon be introduced for pri…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member, Sudhanshu Trivedi launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of deliberately misquoting the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in connection with the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduation (NEET-UG) examination paper leak controversy. Trivedi said on Friday that while the Solicitor General clearly mentioned in court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is person…