The apex court left open the option of an election petition before the High Court as the Congress intensified its protest over the rejection of Natarajan's candidature.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued detailed guidelines for courts dealing with cases involving the custody of a child who is an alleged victim under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, emphasising that the child’s welfare, dignity, emotional security and psychological well-being must remain the paramount consideration at all stages of the proceedings.
The Bench noted that the calculation of compensation based on historically low notional income figures "grossly undervalue" the role of homemakers.
However, the apex court clarified that the relief was being granted in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case and would not serve as a precedent.
The Supreme Court has said that arbitration in India has not failed, but that judicial interference, and at times the conduct of governments, has undermined the efficacy of the arbitral process.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a petition filed by several electoral duty officers whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), even as they remain engaged in conducting the ongoing Assembly elections.
Court proceedings tighten around Pawan Khera as the Gauhati High Court denies bail and pushes the case into a crucial phase, following earlier refusal of relief by the Supreme Court.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday defended the maintainability of its petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, telling the Supreme Court about alleged complete breakdown of law and order in West Bengal and claiming that its officers were unable to perform their duties due to interference and obstruction by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings against a Uttar Pradesh police officer — accused of rioting, causing hurt and breach of peace — noting that not a single prosecution witness has been examined in the last 35 years in the case registered way back in 1989 at Prayagraj.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly deprecated the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s storming into premises of the Pratik Jain – the co-founder of political consultancy firm I-PAC – when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was carrying out searches on January 8, this year, observing that such conduct by a constitutional functionary has the potential to undermine democratic processes.
