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Apr 6

Suo Motu case on NCERT book chapter in judiciary

CJI: Let committee not be confined only to the class 8 chapter.. but let all aspects be considered up and down also.

ASG KM Natraj: Yes all areas

CJI: compliance affidavit has been filed. By this a three member committee comprising Justice Indu Malhotra, sr Adv KK Venugopal and Mr Prakash Singh Vc of Garhwal University has been appointed. The committee shall collaborate with NJA Bhopal to finalise the curriculum of class 8 and higher grades in compliance with NCERT syllabus dealing with legal studies. NCERT has also issued notification on April 2 whereby a high powered committee for prepration of national syllabus and teacher learning committee has been reconstituted. The details of the 20 distinguished members including Mr MC Pant being the chairman, has been constituted. We take both the orders/notification on record as well as compliance affidavit.

Sr Adv Gopal Sankarnarayanan for Alok Prasanna Kumar: We want to show what process was followed..they are not fly by night authors. They are respected. Now new committee is formed.

Sr Adv Arvind Datar appears for Prof Michael: we have given detailed submission

Sr Adv J Sai Deepak: I appear for Suparna Diwakar..this was a collective process and no individual had a sole say

CJI: affidavits have been filed by the three on whom reference has been made in our order dated March 11 where certain directions were issued in respect of them. These applications are not listed today. After curing of defects let the case be listed on so and so date.

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Apr 2

West Bengal SIR case mentioned

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: I got a report from the Telegraph now

CJI Surya Kant; I don't want to politicise it. But we got reports since 2 am. 5 pm they gheraoed the officers and till 11 pm there was no one

Sibal: it is unfortunate.

Sr Adv Menaka Guruswamy: Most of the officers have been transferred out of the state

#SupremeCourt @MamataOfficial

Sr Adv DS Naidu: Earlier judicial officers were being threatened. Now it is becoming physical. If its mobocracy no one can help

Justice Bagchi: Top most civil servant was contacted by the Chief justice of high court. It makes no good case by saying we are not associated. All leaders need to condemn this in one voice. We are here to protect the special officers. Their orders are deemed to be orders of our court

SG: now state cannot be entrusted with the security of judicial officers.

Justice Bagchi: we leave it to ECI to get forces from anywhere and ensure security of judicial officers.

Sr Adv Sankarnarayanan: These villagers are.sayonf they will continue to protest...we will all co-operate. CAPF or anything.

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Mar 30

Justice Oka is giving the 45th JP Memorial Lecture organised by PUCL India.
Justice Oka: Remembering Jayaprakash Narayan today, I go back to my first brush with his movement — I was 14, reading one Marathi and one English newspaper a day, without fully grasping the moment that would define a generation. JP, a committed Gandhian and colleague of leaders like N.G. Ranga, emerged as the leader of the youth in the 1970s; only later did I realise how much my generation underestimated the depth of his ideas.
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Justice Oka: From his writings and speeches, one thing stands out: his unwavering faith in non-violence. For JP, non-violence was not a tactic, but a way of resisting evil with moral strength. He reminded us that negotiations, arbitration, friendship or mediation may succeed or fail — but for those who truly accept non-violence and are prepared to resist evil non-violently, there is no failure. That single idea has stayed with me: those who accept non-violence, and prepare themselves to resist whatever evil may come non-violently, discover a strength that no defeat can erase.
When I revisited JP’s life, I felt his active public role was cut short. Had he remained in public life for another 10–14 years perhaps we would have seen a different India.
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Justice Oka: Let me now turn to today’s theme: where do we see the judiciary today, within the framework of our Constitution, which promises justice – social, economic and political – to every citizen. Our courts have, in many instances, delivered substantive and even spiritual justice, and I say this as someone who has seen the system from within. Yet I have consistently said: when the Constitution, the government and the citizens placed great expectations on the justice system, we did not fully live up to those expectations.

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Mar 23

Delhi High Court stays further investigation and proceedings in FIR lodged against Tamil Nadu MLA and Secretary of Student Wing Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), C.V.M.P. Ezhilarasan, for organising a protest challenging proposed UGC laws, at Jantar Mantar on February 6.

The matter was listed before Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani.

Senior Amit Anand Tiwari appeared for the politician. He stated that the perusal of the FIR would itself show that there is no allegation that the peaceful protest held by the petitioner and his associates caused any obstruction, annoyance or injury or risk.

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Mar 23

Supreme Court resumes hearing the plea against Ladakh-based activist Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under the NSA.

Bench: Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale

Notably, Wangchuk’s detention was revoked by the Centre on March 14.

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While revoking Wangchuk’s detention earlier this month, the Centre said the decision was taken after considering the need to foster “an environment of peace, stability, and mutual trust” in Ladakh.

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Sr. Adv. Kapil Sibal (for Wangchuk): please have this case after vacation.

Court: for what? No no, what is this? What else is left?

Sibal: nothing is left, except…

Court: Mr. Sibal, please.

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Mar 21

Supreme Court Bar Association flags off its first National Conference on the theme “reimagining judicial governance: strengthening institutions for democratic justice”.

Justice Mehta: if a true picture is provided to litigants by lawyers at the first stage the chances of mediation succeeding would increase manifold.

Justice Mehta: But the most stumbling roadblock is the government. The experience in the national Lok Adalats where we hold pre-litigation mediation sessions is sad to say the least. There is hardly a single department of this government which comes forward with a positive response.

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