Delhi High Court to decide on October 30 the petitions filed by Delhi riots accused Sharjeel Imam challenging trial court order framing charges and quashing of Delhi Police chargesheet in connection with the December 2019 Jamia University violence during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Justice Sanjeev Narula briefly heard the matter today.
Advocate Talib Mustafa appearing for Imam - Revision petition is challenging the trial court’s order on charge. All petitions arise of the same FIR. There is a separate writ petition also. Even prosecutors have come up against the same order.
Karnataka HC Division Bench hears appeal challenging single judge order directing National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru to provide 0.5% reservation for transgender students in admissions until it comes out with its own transgender reservation policy.
Justices Anu Sivaraman and Rajesh Rai K are hearing the matter. Senior Advocate KG Raghavan appears for NLSIU, he says that the petitioner who whose plea the single judge order was passed was offered admission but he did not join and "missed the bus."
Raghavan: This was for the 3 year programme.
Raghavan tells Court that petitioner was told to pay the fee for admission to the course, and that he should fill financial aid form if he wished to avail financial aid.
Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of a media report highlighting deaths caused by rabies due to stray dog attacks on children and the elderly.
Bench: Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan
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Justice Pardiwala: This is a highly disturbing news report titled “City hounded by strays and kids pay price”. It contains extremely troubling details.
Justice Pardiwala: There are reports of hundreds of dog bite incidents from both cities and peripheral areas, many of which have led to rabies infections
Supreme Court will today hear the plea filed by tainted Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house committee report indicting him over the recovery of a large sum of unaccounted cash at his official residence in Delhi
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A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih to hear the case today #SupremeCourt
Justice Varma has sought a declaration that the recommendation made by the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna for his removal as High Court judge be declared unconstitutional and ultra vires #YashwantVarma #SupremeCourt
Supreme Court to shortly hear the case pertaining to release of #UdaipurFiles movie
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The Central government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the movie Udaipur Files is about a particular crime and not against any particular community
Justice Kant: Have you filed any Petition in HC? How did Mr Sibal say that it was filed. First go to HC and pursue and then come here. Now other side says he is satisfied with central govt order and he does not want to pursue the case here. So you go to HC now. Why waste our time.
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: This can be transferred to the HC. I can go to the HC but matter was pending here.
Sr Adv Gaurav Bhatia: we are withdrawing it.
Sibal: that is fine ..we will challenge the Central govt order in HC
Chief Justice B.R:
What is your demand (for alimony)?
Lady: Just the house in Mumbai, free of all costs. And ₹12 crore as maintenance.
CJI Gavai: But that house is in Kalpataru… one of the good builders. You’re an IT person. You’ve done your MBA. You’re in demand ..Bengaluru, Hyderabad... Why don’t you work also?”
“You had a marriage for just 18 months,” the CJI continues, “and now you also want a BMW?” 18 months marriage and you want one crore for each month!
Lady: But he is very rich. And he sought the nullity of the marriage claiming I’m schizophrenic.
Sr Adv Madhavi Divan for the Husband: She has to work also. Everything cannot be demanded like this.
Lady: Do I look Schizophrenic My Lords
CJI Gavai: File income tax returns. But understand you cannot claim the properties of his father also.
Case again at 2 pm.
Bench reassembled
CJI Gavai: Where are the returns?
Lady: Yes it is here
Sr Adv Divan: Please give the entire copy .. see 2015-16 there is high income because he was employed then
CJI: Income in 2015-16
Divan: 2 crore 50 lakhs and 1 crore bonus itself..there are also allegations of proxy businesses. Let's take that also for example.. those balance sheets also there. There is nothing to talk about.. if he can just keep the job