Justice DY Chandrachud led bench hears a petition on whether the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) exercise its jurisdiction over railway areas without the consent of the concerned State government (Anup Majee vs State of WB)
Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi: FIR was registered against me for coal being stolen from ECL. But FIR was registered against us by CBI even when consent was withdrawn thus it was a forbidden territory for them. Police is State subject.
Rohatgi: Central Police cannot March its own army in the state territory and say they will probe the offence superseding the jurisdiction of State authority.
#Breaking Karnataka HC sets aside a First Information report registered against Kangana Ranaut over her tweets comparing farmers protesting against the farm laws to terrorists.
High Court: Having taken note of the order passed by the magistrate, nowhere has he made any reference that he has perused averments in the complaint and whether it amounts to a cognizable offence.
Petition is a matrimonial dispute which also had allegations against sitting judges of the Bombay High Court. The petitioner wanted the case to be referred to a 11 judge bench.
Justices UU Lalit, Indira Banerjee and KM Joseph to hear plea by Gautam Navlakha, accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence, against the rejection of his plea for default bail by Bombay High Court #SupremeCourt #BhimaKoregaon
Senior Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan asks if the matter will be taken up before the part heard matter today
A special bench of the Supreme Court Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde to shortly hear a plea filed by an NGO, Lok Prahari, seeking appointment of additional judges to the #SupremeCourt under Article 128 of the Constitution #judgesappointment#topcourtjudges @rsprasad
CJI to MP HC: is it your stand that you will.not reply to ad hoc appointment suggestion since you want regular appointment?
SN Shukla: That is Uttarakhand HC
CJI: who is for Uttarakhand?
CJI repeats the same question to Uttarakhand HC
Adv Vinay Arora: There are four vacancies. We want to fill that first and then look at the backlog.
CJI: is it so that you will consider names of ad hoc appointments and send to #SupremeCourt
CJI SA Bobde led bench to hear a plea by Delhi Jal Board against Haryana government seeking a direction to the state to immediately stop the discharge of untreated pollutants into the #Yamuna river and to release sufficient water to Delhi @DelhiJalBoard #SupremeCourt
Advocate: There is curtailment of water supply to Delhi. 25 percent of drinking water to Delhi will be curtailed from today. Chief Secretary has written to Punjab Haryana. Some repair work has to be carried out in a canal. DJB CEO has inspected and work can happen during monsoon
Adv Gautam Narayan: They have to atleast make an alternate drinking water route be made available
Senior Adv Shyam Divan for Haryana: we have recieved this application today. We need to reply
[Day 9] 5-judge Constitution bench of Supreme Court will continue hearing the challenge to Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act which provides educational and employment reservation to #Marathas.