Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul takes up for hearing petition which had sought clearance of the protest site in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh where sit in protest against CAA was being staged.
Advocate Shashank Deo Sudhi declines to withdraw his petition.
Petitioner in person Amit Sahni: I have only thing to say that such kind of protests should not take place in future. Even yesterday there was a chakka jam in Haryana
Petitioner Amit Sahni: political compulsion cannot be the reason to continue such protests. Such protests cannot continue. Despite your direction to not block roads, some protests went on for 100 days. Keep this matter pending and pass directions
Adv Mehmood Pracha: if such protests are happening peacefully then no directions should be issued. Some persons were sent earlier in such protests to create a riot. This should not happen again
Pracha: State machinery was misused... Protests were proceeding for months there peacefully.
The aspect of violence is a crucial aspect which has to be considered.
(Pracha calls for a universal policy for holding such demonstrations)
Justice Kaul: There cannot be a universal policy because situations and facts are different every time.
Justice Kaul notes that #COVID19 pandemic led to a change in the situation so the experiment carried out by way of appointing interlocutors could not be seen.
#Bombay High Court is set to shortly hear stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra's plea seeking quashing of the FIR filed over his 'Gaddar' remark allegedly directed at Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde.
@kunalkamra88
A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal and Justice S M Modak had earlier adjourned the matter to today, April 16, after taking note of the interim protection granted to Kamra by the Madras High Court.
On April 7, the Madras High Court had extended Kamra’s interim protection from arrest till April 17, while hearing his transit anticipatory bail application.
Supreme Court to deliver judgment on petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government against Governor RN Ravi's refusal to grant assent to several bills passed by the State Legislative Assembly, including those concerning the appointment of Vice Chancellors to State Universities #SupremeCourt
The State had moved the Court seeking directions to the Governor/ President to decide or give assent to bills passed by the State legislature in a time-bound manner.
The State government has argued that the Governor, by indefinitely withholding assent on these bills, was holding the entire State to ransom. In such a situation, the Court must intervene, the Tamil Nadu government argued.
Bench assembles
Justice Pardiwala: We are ordering de tagging of one writ. 1271/2023 will be heard separately
Supreme Court hears the case where it took objection to the absence of an advocate-on-record (AoR) in court during the hearing of a case filed through him
Justice Bela Trivedi: You could not have filed the SLP. If you don't get it you should not be a AoR. I will not leave the case just like that. You took undue advantage of some thing
AoR: I take responsibility
SC: you have no option but to take this. Apology will not do
Justice Trivedi: judgment had come and you are challenging it. Should you not read the papers. Where is the scope for any explanation.
AoR: my learned friend
SC: don't say learned fried. We are agitated and pained. Day in and day out we are seeing this. It is you and only you. For surrendering you say condone delay. Then in condonation application.. what kind of language is being used
AoR: the plea has been drawn by someone else
Justice Trivedi: So what ?????? It bears your signature or not
Scenes from the Delhi High Court after the declaration of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) election results. Senior Advocate N Hariharan has been elected as the President of DHCBA.
Senior Advocate N Hariharan secured 2,967 votes and won by a margin of 87 votes. Senior Advocate Kirti Uppal came second with 2,880 votes.
The other two candidates - Senior Advocate Abhijat garnered 1,429 votes and Senior Advocate Vivek Sood garnered 339 votes.
Senior Advocate N Hariharan after winning the elections.
#Breaking Bombay High Court has overturned a Family Court decision that denied the request to waive the statutory cooling-off period for the divorce of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma under the Hindu Marriage Act.
#BombayHC #YuzvendraChahal
A bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar has also directed the family court to decide the divorce petition by tomorrow considering Chahal's participation in the upcoming IPL
The couple that got married in December 2020 was living apart since June 2022.
#SupremeCourt to shortly deliver judgment on this significant issue
The court to hand down verdict in the suo motu case concerning visually impaired in judicial services
The genesis of the case lies in the rules governing judicial appointments in Madhya Pradesh which contained discriminatory language that prevented blind individuals from becoming judges.
This exclusion was challenged after a mother, whose visually impaired child aspired to the judiciary, wrote to the court, leading to a court-initiated public interest litigation.
Justice R Mahadevan: we have treated it as the most important case. We have touched upon constitutional framework also and institutional disability jurisprudence...