SC had observed it would form a committee leading to formation of standards for electronic media. It had also said that one "cannot say that Muslims are infiltrating the civil services." The channel was injuncted from airing any more episodes till further orders.
Centre in its reply has informed SC that it should first regulate digital media as it has a wider reach. Next ir contends that SC should not lay down standards without an amicus or committee of amicus since its one show or a few episodes. @MIB_India
News Broadcasters Association, on the other hand says their regulations are referred to by various HCs and that they have rules and an authority in place to recieve complaints against electronic media, impose cost on them or even refer them to @MIB_India for license revocation
Divan: Very difficult to prepare the reply in such a short span of time. I understand what other side is saying as I was in the same position last time and was ambushed by the IA
Divan: I have also recieved the other affidavits just now. You all will sit on Monday and can be taken up then or take it up tomorrow. I have a court commitment from Mon which will take time
SG Mehta: Since Mr Divan has a professional difficulty on Monday, we can have the hearing tomorrow.
Justice Chandrachud: We can ask CJI to constitute a bench tomorrow for this case and we can have the hearing tomorrow at 10.30 am and finish it off
Senior Adv Anoop Chaudhari: we cannot be expected to file a reply by tomorrow
Justice Chandrachud: How long is the affidavit by @SudarshanNewsTV ?
Chaudhari: 92 pages!
Justice Chandrachud: Mr Divan has submitted his unavailability from Monday. All counsels have agreed for a hearing tomorrow. We will urge the CJI to constitute a bench tomorrow at 10.30 am
SG Mehta: Please keep it at 12 pm
Justice Chandrachud: We will start at 12 and finish it at 1.30 pm tomorrow
Counsel for Press Council of India: Please allow me to make submissions after Mr Divan
Justice KM Joseph: Who is your client, Mr Divan? A Cable TV operator or a broadcaster? Rule 6 applies to the cable TV network operators.
Senior Adv Preetesh Kapur for PCI: Yes that is why electronic media is on a different footing as they use public property like air waves
Senior Adv Divan: I had given an assurance that links or pendrives are given to the court Master. It was not given, I will ensure you have the links atleast today via the court master
Supreme Court hears the plea by Association of Democratic Reforms
CJI Sanjiv Khanna: what is this for ?
Adv Prashant Bhushan: we are Seeking that the procedure which ECI needs to adopt as per supreme Court judgment is in consonance with their standard operating protocol. What we want is that somebody should examine the software and the hardware of the EVMs in order to see if the software and hardware has any element of manipulation or not
CJI: Once votes are counted the paper trails are taken out or it's still there
Bhushan: they should maintain the paper trail
Sr Adv Devadatta Kamath: I appear for Sarva mitter. The entire data was wiped out. the evms on which polling was done should be tested.
CJI: to be done within seven days.. and the machine could be as per candidate choice and the burnt memory could be checked and verified.
Sr Adv Kamath: dummy units are checked not real ones. Here a fresh poll is being conducted and 40,000 being spent for verifying and checking each machine and the payment is to be by the candidate and then it's just a mock poll!
Supreme Court hears PIL by National Federation of Indian Women over the alleged increase in cases of Lynching and MobViolence, particularly by 'CowVigilantes'
Justice BR Gavai: Issue has already concluded. Can we revive that by way of another writ
Adv Nizamuddin Pasha: But the issue is when private individuals are given police powers to seize vehicles and nab people for cattle smuggling.. this is how police powers are given to private agencies. Attitude of state machinery needs to be looked at and see how brazen it is.. some kind of oversight from this court will help
Justice Gavai: You can challenge those notifications before the court
Pasha: It exists across states and is across spectrum
SG Tushar Mehta: I appear for the Union. If such things are happening it can be challenged
Pasha: 13 states follow this rule
Justice Gavai: is there are a direction in this case by us to all states .
SG: On Nov 6,2024, 6 states as selected by petitioner were asked to respond.
Pasha: and thereafter all states and UTs were made a part. Oct 28,2023, was the plea to implead all States and UTs . They have replied also
Should former AAP councillor Tahir HussainΒ granted interim bail in a case related to Delhi riots so that he may campaign for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls as an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate?
#SupremeCourt to hear @AamAadmiParty @aimim_national
The case comes to a three-judge bench after Justice Pankaj Mithal ruled that bail should be denied and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah stated that bail should be granted #TahirHussain #DelhiElection2025
Hearing to commence at 10:30 am #SupremeCourtofIndia
Supreme Court hears the case where village residents oppose the burial of a Christian man in the graveyard of their village in Chhattisgarhβs Bastar
Son of deceased Ramesh Baghel, a farmer from a Scheduled Caste (SC) community, who has kept the body in a mortuary for 12 days now is before supreme court
Justice BV Nagarathna: Why cannot a person before buried where they wanted to. Body is in mortuary? We are sorry to say that A person has to come to supreme court for the burial of his father. The HC, panchayat etc are not able to solve the problem. The HC says there will be law and order problem.. we are pained at this.
SG Tushar Mehta: if the case is to be decided only on emotions then I have nothing to say, else let it be argued
Sr Adv Colin Gonsalves: see the real reason, burial not being allowed because the person had converted.
SG: Intention may be to make this a precedent for rest of country. There is burial ground for the tribals who are not Christians. Though they are not christians they bury their dead. When christians die, just 20 km away there is a christian burial ground and they take the dead their and bury them. This ground is a Hindu tribal burial ground. Thus rather than not being vehement that I will not go 20 kms away.. then there are laws..
Justice Nagarathna: but what about burying in own land?
SG: once you bury or cremate someone in a private land the character of land changes it becomes a sacred place and it also has health issues. That is not permitted.. cremation etc is not allowed in private lands
Justice Nagarathna: no no nothing remains after cremation...
SG: it is not about one person it is the beginning of something else.
#SupremeCourt hears plea seeking quashing of the entire process of designation of 70 lawyers as senior advocates undertaken by theΒ Delhi High Court
Adv Mathew Nedumpara makes submissions
Justice BR Gavai: How many judges can you name whose offsprings have been made seniors ?
Nedumpara: I have given a chart..
Justice Gavai: we will grant you liberty to amend the plea and if it is not amended then we will take steps accordingly. Tell us who is the signatory to the profession.
#Madrashighcourt will continue hearing today, the batch of petitions on the sexual assault of a student inside the Anna University campus in Chennai.
The vacation bench of
Justices SM Subramaniam and V Lakshminarayan assembles
Advocate General PS Raman: From what we have understood, some things have particularly affected the collective consciousness of this Court- The leaked details in the FIR and the Commissioner's statements in the press conference