#1 Bengal Violence: Calcutta High Court hands over cases of murder & crimes against women to CBI, says West Bengal Government has been evasive while dealing with cases concerning post poll violence
Supreme Court lambasts West Bengal government over indefinite delay in completing Kolkata Metro’s Orange Line.
State of WB: Please give us time till May. Now elections are there.
CJI: Do not politicise everything.. this is a development issue.
Justice Joymalya Bagchi: For you festival is more important than development! You told High Court that you have festivals to take care of. Festival is more important than construction of transport. We do not expect democratically elected government to knock on our doors for this. We will not allow the state to use this to stall development again.
CJI: This was a fit case where your Chief Secretary, DGP should have been subjected to action. This shows complete deriliction of your constitutional duty. This is just an attempt to politicise an issue..
#MadrasHighCourt to continue hearing appeals challenging a single judge order of December 1 that permitted lighting of #KarthigaiDeepam atop an ancient pillar (#deepathoon) on #ThiruparankundramHill
Bench: Justices G Jayachandran and K K Ramakrishnan
Senior Advocate S Sriram (for Hindu devotee): The right to worship cannot be confined only to Article 25. It is also a facet of the right to expression under Article 19.
SupremeCourt to hear today a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal.
While the #BiharSIR case has been heard earlier (with polls now in the final phase), petitions over #TamilNaduSIR and #WestBengalSIR were filed recently.
In Tamil Nadu, the DMK (@arivalayam), CPI(M) (@cpimspeak), and a state MLA have moved the Supreme Court.
In West Bengal, petitions have been filed by TMC MP Dola Sen (@AITCofficial), Mala Roy and the WB Pradesh Congress Committee.
@arivalayam @cpimspeak @AITCofficial J. Surya Kant: Let’s take up the SIR fresh matters first.
Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi appears for Election Commission of India.
Dwivedi: We have not been issued notice in the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu pleas.
Supreme Court hearing a plea by cartoonist Hemant Malviya, accused of drawing a caricature showing the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak (RSS) and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in an undignified manner.
Bench: Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria
On the last hearing, the Court had directed cartoonist Hemant Malviya to publish an apology on social media, barred reposting of caricature, and said deletion of the original content was not allowed during ongoing investigation.
Advocate Vrinda Grover appears for Malviya and ASG KM Nataraj appears for the State of Madhya Pradesh.
Grover for Malviya informs the Bench that apology has been published on social media.
Delhi High Court to hear today Centre’s objection to the maintainability of a plea filed by banned organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) challenging the UAPA Tribunal’s order upholding the five-year ban imposed by the Central Government.
The matter is listed before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela.
Counsel for PFI: May I be permitted to hand over a note of the arguments that I have prepared?
Supreme Court to shortly hear YouTuber and podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia aka 'BeerBiceps' plea over multiple FIRs filed against him for controversial remarks on the YouTube show 'India's Got Latent'.
Court had earlier in February granted interim relief to Allahabadia.