SC seeks ED response on bail plea by ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren
said that it will be open to Jharkhand High Court to deliver its judgement on the former Chief Minister Sorem’s plea challenging his arrest in an alleged money laundering case.
said that it will be open to Jharkhand High Court to deliver its judgement on the former Chief Minister Sorem’s plea challenging his arrest in an alleged money laundering case.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a plea seeking a declaration that those who do not want to…
The top court also rejected the prayers of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting system, calling it foible and unsound.
The bench among other issues sought clarity from the poll panel officials whether the micro controller is installed in the controlling unit or the VVPAT and the flash memory of the microcontrollers in EVMs cannot be reprogrammed.
The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khana and Dipankar Datta had last week reserved its verdict on a batch of public interest litigations in the matter.
If a person is prejudiced by the utterances/speech/expression including hate speech, by a public functionary or otherwise, Justice Nagarathna said that such a person may take recourse to criminal and civil laws for appropriate remedies
Pronouncing the judgment for the majority, Justice B R Gavai said that the power available to the Central government under sub-section (2) of Section 26 of the RBI Act cannot be restricted to mean that it can be exercised only for ‘one’ or ‘some’ series of bank notes and not for ‘all’ series of bank notes. The power can be exercised for all series of bank notes.”
The trial court had acquitted the former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, but the Allahabad High Court reversed the trial court order and convicted and sentenced him to seven years of jail term.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Wednesday a plea filed by Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahabad High Court judgment on conducting the urban local body polls without reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The triple test -- which requires the government to complete three tasks for finalisation of reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the local bodies -- has often become a bone of contention between the judiciary and state governments.