Justice MR Shah led bench of #SupremeCourt to hear an appeal against Calcutta HC order setting aside the order of a lower court & directing the lodging of an FIR against @BJP4India 's Kailash Vijayvargiya, RSS member Jisnu Basu in a sexual assault case @KailashOnline
Senior Adv Mahesh Jethmalani to appear for the petitioner @KailashOnline : The compass is very narrow in this case
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal appears for the State of West Bengal
Jethmalani: It is alleged that complainant was raped in 2018 and filed a complaint in 2020. In between there is much correspondence and other cases filed in which there are closure reports. All were against Kailash Vijayvargiya
Jethmalani: As per Lalita Kumari case, there is preliminary enquiry. He says there is nothing in this complaint. Then revision application moved in High Court
Sr Adv Sibal:We won't argue much on the merits of the case. We leave it to your lordship
Justice Shah: he is being very fair
Jethmalani: he is nothing but always fair
SC: He looks fair and he is fair also !!
Sibal: protection may be granted...
SC: We issue notice and list it after the vacations
Jethmalani: Please grant interim protection
Sr Adv Paramjit Singh Patwalia: The HC has adjourned the matter since it's pending here. It will become day after. Please grant protection till then
Shah J: Let the High court hear it and grant protection
Jethmalani: I am being subjected to illegal investigation
SC: Bring the complainant here, we will consider it on reopening
ORDER
SC: We issue notice and list it on Nov 16, 2021. In addition to the regular service, the original complainant be served by incharge police office of concerned police station. .
SC ORDER: Meantime it will be open for HC to consider anticipatory bail plea on merits on consider granting interim protection without prejudice to rights of parties
Justice AM Khanwilkar led bench hears a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Godhra riots #supremecourt @narendramodi
SC: Mr Sibal, the best course would be not be going backwards...we have to start from the 2011 order.. there was an option to file a protest petition. history of 2009 and 2010 may not help us today. show us what report was presented and the protest plea filed in ref to the report
CJI NV Ramana led bench to deliver judgment on a batch of petitions seeking an independent probe into the #PegasusSpyware scandal which had allegedly compromised privacy of individuals and institutions
Justice AM Khanwilkar led bench hears a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Godhra riots #supremecourt@narendramodi
Justice Khanwilkar: CBI enquiry is already ordered, then what survives in this?
Sr Adv Colin Gonsalves: CBI probe is not ordered
SC: No it is..i was wondering what remains
Gonsalves: probe is not starting at all
Justice Khanwilkar: time being granted to Sr Adv Gonsalves to chart out issues that need to be considered by the bench. List on November 16, 2021 #supremecourt
Noting that the special investigation team (SIT) probing the violence needed to get more witnesses to record their statements, the top court adjourned the proceedings last week to October 26.
Mumbai Court to shortly pronounce its verdict in application filed by #NCB seeking directions from the Court against the hurdles and scuttle being created in #AryanKhanDrugCase.