#RamMandir - #BabriMasjid: CJI Ranjan Gogoi tells Senior Counsel Sushil Kumar Jain appearing for Nirmohi Akhara to concentrate on the merits of the case as he has already argued on limitation extensively.
#RamMandir - #BabriMasjid: You have said that the outer courtyard was under your possession amd management and the deity was owned by you, Justice DY Chandrachud refers to Nirmohi Akhara's claim.
Discussion still on whether Akhara is claiming title or only Shabaitship.
#RamMandir - #BabriMasjid: Bench asks Nirmohi Akhara to lead it through documentary evidence to prove its claim of Shabaitship.
Stray dogs case: Supreme Court to continue monitoring compliance of Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 in various states.
Chief Secretaries of all states except Delhi, Telangana, and West Bengal to appear before the Court today with compliance affidavits for their respective states.
Bench: Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria
All Chief Secretaries present in Court.
Sr. Adv. AM Singhvi: your lordships may limit entry only for this case. It’s really difficult to come in.
Justice Nath: I had suggested an auditorium…. Who appears for Andhra Pradesh? What’s your explanation? Why was no affidavit filed on the previous date?
CS Andhra Pradesh inaudible.
The Court reviews affidavits.
SG Tushar Mehta: all states have filed compliance affidavits.
Justice Nath: all states have filed their compliance affidavits. Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu have not filed.
Singhvi: many of the vital facts are not stated in the affidavits, number of ABC centres, number of dogs sterilised, budget allocations, unless these parameters are known it is not be possible to deal with it state wise. Some of my colleagues have done the exercise, they may make a chart..
Supreme Court hears plea pertaining to appointment of information commissioners.
Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi
Adv Prashant Bhushan: this is regarding appointment to information commissions. It has been 10 months from the last order. There are so many orders asking to appoint and the pendency is just skyrocketing. The RTI is being destroyed by not appointing information commissioners.
Bhushan: earlier what they had done is they air dropped one person, a journalist who was singing praises of the government and without any qualifications he was air dropped.
Justice Kant: sometimes people don’t apply. We can’t doubt everything. We exercise suo moto powers in case of senior designations because people don’t apply.
Supreme Court to shortly hear the issue concerning stray dogs and the Pan India policy on Animal Birth control rules implementation #SupremeCourt
Sr Adv Sidharth Luthra: One matter has come from High court. All matters are here
Justice Vikram Nath: we do not have compliance affidavit by any of the states.
Adv: MCD (Delhi) has filed it, Telangana, West Bengal.. also
Luthra: We have not been supplied
SC: only three compliance affidavits are filed but not on record. They are Telangana, WB and MCD. Notices was issued to all states and UTs. Let all be present before this court on 10:30 am next Monday along with explanation as to why not filed and no representation also here from the three mentioned here.
Delhi High Court heard the submissions of intervenor Broadband India Forum in the copyright suit filed by ANI against OpenAI.
Senior Advocate Arvind Datar is appearing for Broadband India Forum.
The matter is being heard by Justice Amit Bansal.
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Delhi High Court is hearing the suit filed by news agency Asian News International (ANI) concerning copyright, trademark infringement suit against digital content creator and YouTuber Mohak Mangal.
Mangal has filed a fresh application seeking reinstatement of ten videos taken down by YouTube due to copyright strike by ANI.
Senior Advocate Diya Kapur and Advocate Nakul Gandhi are appearing for Mangal.
Sr Adv Kapur - They give me option to give a counter. The Court has not given injunction but this soverreign function is being discharged by YoutTube that the videos cannot be re-instated.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gives an undertaking before Delhi High Court to formulate final guidelines for disabled friendly accessibility features on OTT platforms.
The matter was listed before Justice Sachin Datta.
The petitioners, specially abled visually impaired persons, were aggrieved by the lack of disabled friendly accessibility features in the recent Bollywood blockbuster movies on OTT platform.