Supreme Court today is scheduled to take up for hearing petition filed by Yatin Oza challenging the decision of the Gujarat High Court of revoking Oza's senior designation.
Oza has also assailed Rule 26 of the High Court of Gujarat Senior Designation Rules, 2015 for being ultra vires Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution.
Oza's senior gown was recalled after contempt of court proceedings were initiated against Oza for levelling allegations of corruption against the Court registry.
Oza had tendered an unconditional apology but the same was rejected by the HC.
Justice Kaul inquires when the matter is listed before the HC.
Senior Adv Arvind Datar: September 17
Justice Kaul: It is unfortunate that Mr. Oza has made things worse for himself.
Naphade: He has a bit of a temperamental issue.
Justice Kaul observes that some days there are remarks made from the Court, sometimes from the Counsel but Oza has been in controversy multiple times
Advocate Nikhil Goel tells the Court that Oza's apology has not been accepted by the High Court.
SC fixes the matter for hearing on September 29.
Yatin Oza at the end makes a brief submission before the Court, couching for his sincerity, Oza says his is "not a paper apology"
Justice Kaul observes "it is an unfortunate incident"
Singhvi: I (Oza) have apologised on a number of ocassions but then I was told that my apology will not be accepted. Then it was said that I didn't argue on merits
Shekhar Napdhade reiterates that Oza has a "heart of gold" even though some temperament issue
Supreme Court allows petitioner (Yatin Oza) to file an SLP against the Gujarat HC judgment.
Matter to be heard next on September 29
"Not a paper apology", Yatin Oza says as Supreme Court defers hearing of challenge to Senior designation revocation till Gujarat High Court decision
Kejriwal was granted bail by the trial court on Thursday (June 20). The High Court put an interim stay on his bail the next day, after ED challenged the order.
On the same day, Justice Jain reserved his verdict on ED's stay application.
Delhi High Court orders removal of tweets by Congress leaders Ragini Nayak, Jairam Ramesh, and Pawan Khera alleging that journalist Rajat Sharma abused Nayak on live-television.
High Court holds that Congress leaders over-sensationalised the incident and did not remain truthful.
"It cannot be denied that the citizens have a right to freedom of Speech and expression but there was also a corresponding duty to remain truthful to the incident. The X posts berating the plaintiff are nothing but an oversensationalization and depiction of facts which are patently false," the court said.
#SupremeCourt to hear plea by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) seeking disclosure of final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling stations including the number of votes polled in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 within 48 hours of the polling #lokbsabaelctions2024 @ECISVEEP
Election Commission of India (ECI) had told the Supreme Court that there is no legal right that can be claimed towards publishing final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling stations. #lokbsabaelctions2024 @ECISVEEP #SupremeCourt