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Jul 22

A Battle for Alimony in the #SupremeCourt

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

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Jul 17

Plea in #SupremeCourt seeks FIR against sitting Delhi HC judges

Adv: This plea seeks registration of FIR against sitting HC judges. The issue is when I am the topper of the exam, but all judges.. ideally case should be heard by court 1..

Justice Surya Kant: Are you wanting to argue or you want to do bench hunting? We understand this kind of publicity stunts. Which college you did graduate and MBA?

Adv: engineering from DU and MBA From IIM Kozhikode

Justice Kant: still you make such scandalous allegations

Adv: If this can be treated it as a civil petition.. then this court can..

Justice Kant: just because there are illegal, perverse petitions being filed . You cannot ask FIRs against judges. How many cases have you done

Adv: I did law for this case only

Justice Kant: that's what I thought. Tell me under which law judges are liable to be prosecuted for giving judgments against you.

Justice Kant: What happened to your contempt plea? Why unconditional apology to the tribunal then?

Adv: the court officer told me that earlier order passed was destroyed. the case was earlier only adjourned..

Justice Kant: why unconditional apology

Adv: Justice Vipin Sanghi told me to apologise to tribunal when I moved high court

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Jul 17

"We are constantly monitored by social media" - Solicitor General Tushar Mehta is making arguments opposing X Corp's plea in Karnataka HC challenging Central govt. 'Sahyog' portal to issue content blocking orders.

Matter before Justice Nagaprasanna. Track Thread for updates

SG Mehta: We are constantly being monitored by social media sites, we are products for them ... There is a kind of profiling for every individual.

Judge: Whatever you desire...

SG Mehta: .. You are bombarded with it (on the phone). Even speaking is now (monitored)

Judge: Yes, whatever you are speaking to someone, you get all the related content on phone.

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Jul 16

Supreme Court to shortly hear the plea where it had granted interim bail to Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Professor of Ashoka University, in connection with his Facebook post on Operation Sindoor #SupremeCourt #OperationSindoor

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: A status report has been filed. Please see what was said earlier.. that probe shall be confined to the two FIRs only.

Sr Adv Sibal: please see page 2. Para 8 of the status report. it shows data extraction report of devices and SIT examining it. Then it says investigation shall be carried out in accordance with the law. Then it says reports from FSL received..now they want to know where you travelled for the last 10 years.

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Jul 10

Supreme Court to shortly hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s June 24, 2025 order for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar months before the state goes to assembly polls #BiharElections2025 #SupremeCourtofIndia @ECISVEEP

Some of the petitions are by TMC MP Mahua Moitra, former AAP co-founder Yogendra Yadav, Manoj RJD MP Manoj Jha, Association for Democratic Reforms among others @MahuaMoitra @_YogendraYadav @RJDforIndia @pbhushan1

@MahuaMoitra @_YogendraYadav @RJDforIndia @pbhushan1 A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi to hear the matter today #BiharElections2025 #SupremeCourtofIndia

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Jul 3

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S Oka to shortly deliver the Late Justice H.R. Khanna Memorial Lecture on "Independence of Judiciary" organised by the Goa HC Bar Association

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Justice AS Oka: I must clarify that when it comes to independence of judiciary, irrespective of the party in power, irrespective of the fact whether there is emergency or not, there is always a threat to independence of judiciary. And therefore, the members of the judicial fraternity, namely the judges and members of the bar have to be always alert and ensure that independence remains

Justice Oka: Let us also say here that there are judges and Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, who have been already forgotten, but there are large number of judges of the High Court who never went to the Supreme Court, and they are remembered forever. There are judges of the Supreme Court who did not become Chief Justices of India, but they are remembered forever. I am giving an example of our Mumbai High Court only biopic. We had Chief Justice M.C. Chagla, Justice Chittutosh Mukherjee, Justice P.D. Desai, and Justice M.L. Pence. These great judges never went to the Supreme Court, but we fondly remember them. I can add many names to that, like Justice Vimadala, Justice Lentin, and so many other names can be added.

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