A Justice Ashok Bhushan led bench of the Supreme Court to hear a batch of petitions today seeking to postpone the NEET-UG exams set to be held on September 13.
There are three cases listed. Lead case of Keshav Maheshwari is set to be argued by @advocate_alakh .. the other two of Arijit Sau and Pragya Pranjal too seeks to postpone NEET-UG exams. Pleas filed through @anubha1812
Justice MR Shah: Mr. Datar, all arrangements will be made for the #NEET exams
Arvind Datar refers to UGC judgment by #SupremeCourt
Datar seeks to highlight the example of Bihar where there are only 2 exam centres
SC observes that there cannot be different dates for different States.
SC: Whatever date is fixed, there might be some difficulty
Datar urges for the exam to be considered to be postponed by three weeks
SC points out that a review petition was also dismissed
Senior Advocate KTS Tulsi arguing for petitioners: #COVID19 cases are increasing and now there are 90,000 daily case.
Tulsi shows example of the Bombay HC's recent order where the JC said those who could not appear for the exam should be appropriately considered @MPKTSTulsi
Justice Ashok Bhushan: Whether the students should be considered or not is for the body to decide not for this Court to pass directions on
@MPKTSTulsi cites the Disaster Management Act and says that the students are at a high risk of contracting the virus
Senior Adv Tulsi cites Article 21
Advocate Shoeb Alam now arguing: My petition (Arijit Sau) is different from the petitions so far and is not seeking for deferment of the exams
Alam: I want to point out some lacuna in the guidelines issued by the NTA
Adv Shoeb Alam Alam prays that there might be some facilitation for aspirants to reach the exam centres.
Alam: The local authorities may be directed to ensure that the guidelines are enforced
SC: All this will be done
Adv Shoeb Alam: A slight nudge from your lordships will go a long way. At a time when there is a cap on large gatherings, there are hundreds of students who have to go out to take the exams so a direction from the Court will go a long way
Case of attack on a supreme court lawyer [Pankaj Sharma vs State of NCT]
AG R Venkataramani: I have said let him be taken to a government hospital. Let a medico legal report be taken so that his injuries can be ascertained. I acted in his best interest.
Sr Adv Vikas Singh: No as an attorney general you should have done more
CJI: There was a sharp object...
AG: That is what.. they say he brushed against a wall.. That is why I said medico legal report needed
Justice Bagchi: See intention is important in such cases and not the gravity of the injury. Injury is on a vital part of the body.
Sr Adv Singh: Status report is saying that a compromise is being forced.
Sr Adv Vikaas Pahwa: The accused RWA president is being protected by the local police
Singh: Crime branch should investigate...if section 109 is not attracted here then what else
Sr Adv Siddarth Dave: This lawyer regularly appears before this court.
Justice Bagchi: The investigating officer has to give the widest possible berth and then go for the medical opinion.
Adv: But arrest has to be there now
Justice Bagchi: Arrest? Why arrest ? Now next time you make an anticipatory bail plea..we will say arrest all accused
Adv laughs
Justice Bagchi; what are you all saying. You all are officers of this court
Delhi High Court is to hear the Central and Delhi government's stand on the public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to provide medical aid to activist Sonam Wangchuk who is on a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
The matter was listed before the bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia.
During yesterday's hearing, the Court had asked the Additional Solicitor General and Delhi government's standing counsel to take instructions on the PIL raising concern regarding Wangchuk's health deterioration.
Supreme Court hears the case where it had barred YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia from airing shows following FIRs over offensive comments made on Samay Raina's show India's Got Latent.
However the bar was later lifted stating petitioners will create shows for disabled to create awareness
Adv Aparajita : Now we find it distasteful to ask for his show. He is calling a few of such disabled to some physical locations and do shows..People like samay Raina is apparently a youth icon. I shudder to think so.
SG Mehta: Our youth has better icons.
CJI: We have no reason to believe that Samay Raina has taken the court for a ride and has brazenly violated the orders of this court. The misconduct is further compounded stating that an affidavit is filed when nothing is on record. Thus we impose cost of Rs 10 lakhs to be deposited within 2 weeks.
SG Mehta speaks about the opening scene of the show, Samay actually hangs a "Nimbu-Mirchi" (lemon and chili totem) on the stage as a superstition to ward off "bad vibes" and prevent the show from getting cancelled or into trouble.
SG: it was very clear what is he targeting or speaking about.
CJI: If you don't know how to mend your ways or respect sentiments of the society members then you have to face consequences.
Sonam Raghuvanshi case: Supreme Court to shortly hear State’s plea challenging Sonam’s bail by the Meghalaya High Court.
Bench: Justices Manoj Misra and Shree Chandrashekhar
#SonamRaghuvanshi #SupremeCourt
Sonam is accused for the murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi during their honeymoon last year. She was granted bail by a trial court, which was upheld by the High Court.
SG Tushar Mehta: this is a very serious case. Bail was granted on the ground that grounds were not supplied but at the time of arrest there is record that they were supplied.
Court: so far as the supply of written grounds is concerned….
Mehta: it was supplied. Only objection was section 403 was written instead of section 103.
Court: we will consider this at length. We will also see if this requires to be referred to a larger bench or not. There is Bansal’s judgement and Mihir Rajesh. There’s a conflict which is arising between various coordinate bench judgements. This would require arguments.
Mehta: there is no question of conflict. Written grounds are also supplied. It is very clear. Just with one typographical error.
Delhi High Court orders the government's Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) to take a decision within 15 days on removing a YouTube video by Dhruv Rathee in which he allegedly said that Ram, Seeta and Krishna, consumed meat and alcohol.
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma says any disregard of court's order will be taken seriously.
@dhruv_rathee @SachdevaAmita
The Court passed the order after advocate Amita Sachdeva filed a plea in the High Court. Sachdeva took offence to a video uploaded by Rathee on YouTube on March 21, 2026, titled 'Can Hindus Eat BEEF? | Kerala Story 2 EXPOSED'.
Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma appeared for the Central government today and argued that the intermediary (YouTube) should have exercised due diligence, which is to take down the content.
Sharma said that the content uploaded by Rathee is harmful and fissiparous.
"Either Google says they will do it [take down the video] now or my ladyship may pass a judgement based on what the Division Bench has said... He [Google's counsel] should take it down and say he will not permit the such fissiparious content that hurts the sentiments of the majority community," Sharma added.
Supreme Court to hear plea filed by the State of Meghalaya challenging a Meghalaya High Court order that upheld bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the murder of her husband Raja Raghuvanshi during their honeymoon in the state #SupremeCourt
SG Tushar Mehta: This is shocking. Shocking.
SG: I will just show four pages. Both of them go to Meghalaya for honeymoon. It's a pre determined murder. Wife takes husband to some hilly area.. participates in assault ..he was killed and then dead body was thrown into the gorge. Three assailants brought by the lady and she herself killed him. She was arrested from UP after she absconded. Magistrate says he was satisfied that grounds of arrest was communicated.