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.
The plea argued that in view of no progress on notification of the jurisdiction of KRMB, Telangana by its acts of commission is seriously affecting the water supply to Andhra Pradesh for irrigation and other purposes.
The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising of justices L. Nageswarao Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ravindra Bhat on a plea by Madras Bar Association, challenging the Sections 12 and 13 of the Ordinance by which Sections 184 and 186(2) of the Finance Act, 2017 was amended.
The main writ petition argues the impugned section clearly infringes the fundamental right under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution
The Supreme Court agreed to examine whether UAPA, a stringent anti-terror law, is applicable in gold smuggling cases
The plea contended that the top court in Kedar Nath's case did not go far enough in reading down the section. "Retaining 'intention' and 'tendency' as basis for criminal liability means that these inherently subjective terms can be used (and abused) to penalise those who have not caused any violence or public disorder.