A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta sought the response of the Union government and listed the matter for hearing after four weeks.
The division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen directed the petitioner to place before the court logical evidence to establish the admissibility of the PIL.
Raising concerns of large-scale and irreversible disenfranchisement, Banerjee contended that the ongoing SIR poses a serious threat to the voting rights of lakhs of eligible electors and would severely undermine the level playing field among political parties ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
Raising concerns of large-scale and irreversible disenfranchisement, Banerjee has contended that the ongoing SIR poses a serious threat to the voting rights of lakhs of eligible electors and would severely undermine the level playing field among political parties ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
Observing that the Delhi High Court is already seized of the matter, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant granted liberty to advocate Narendra Mishra, the petitioner-in-person, to raise his grievances before the High Court.
The Supreme Court’s move on April 28, to examine obscenity regulations for OTT platforms and social media (in a PIL filed by Uday Mahurkar and others) is both urgent and necessary.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Central government, Over The Top (OTT) – Netflix, Amazon Prime, Alt Balaji, Ullu, ALTT, X (formerly Twitter), Meta Inc, Google, Mubi, Apple, and the social media platforms on a public interest plea (PIL) seeking to regulate and prohibit the streaming of obscene contents.
The petitioner – one Parul Khera – said the provisions in 1995 Waqf Act grant special status to Waqf properties while the same is denied to the Trust, Mutts, Akharas and societies and confer unguided and unchecked powers to Waqf Boards to register any property as Waqf property.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a public interest plea (PIL) seeking registration of an FIR into the alleged recovery of a huge amount of cash from the outhouse of the official residence of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, now recommended to be transferred to the Allahabad High Court.
Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna heading a bench agreed to list the PIL for hearing today or tomorrow after advocate for the PIL petitioner mentioned the matter for an early hearing.
