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{TEESTA SETALVAD BAIL PLEA}

#SupremeCourt to hear the bail plea filed by activist #TeestaSetalvad after she was arrested for allegedly fabricating documents to frame high-ranking officials including then Gujarat Chief Minister @narendramodi in the 2002 Gujarat Riots cases

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: There are special Benches today. If it can still be accommodated.

SG Tushar: Can we have it on Monday? I need time to modify our reply.

Justice Lalit: Issue is someone is behind bars.

SG: In a serious offence. Other legal remedies have not been ...

SG: exhausted. They moved Court late.

Bench: Give us two minutes.

#Teesta #SupremeCourt

SC: One difficulty that we have is, we have decided that on miscellaneous days we can have as many matters. On other days we may not sit in same combination.

SG: If I'm being unreasonable, your lordships can take it up today.

Bench discusses.

Order: First item on Tuesday. File responses by Saturday, latest Monday.

Sibal: Alright my lords.

SG: From Monday the composition is entirely... We have the right to begin the day on a lighter note.

Sibal: Every extra day's incarceration is wrong .

SC: That is true.

Order notes that rejoinder by Petitioner to Centre's reply by Monday.

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Aug 25

#Breaking Delhi High Court asks Centre to file a consolidated reply to all the matters challenging the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in armed forces.

#DelhiHighCourt #Agnipath

The court asked the government to file a separate reply to petitions that have challened recruitment processes before the introduction of Agnipath scheme.
#DelhiHighCourt #Agnipath

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad, however, refused to stay the Agnipath scheme.
#DelhiHighCourt #Agnipath

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Aug 25

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{PM MODI SECURITY BREACH}

#SupremeCourt to pass order on a plea by an organisation, Lawyers Voice seeking a court-monitored probe into the alleged security breach during PM Narendra Modi's Punjab visit on January 5. @narendramodi @PMOIndia #PMSecurityBreach

#SupremeCourt in January this year had appointed a Committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Indu Malhotra to probe the matte

CJI: Open the report please

Counsel appears for former Punjab DGP

CJI: Why you are anticipating something?

Counsel: i hope there is nothing against my client

#PMModiSecurityBreach

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Aug 25

{PMLA REVIEW}

#SupremeCourt to hold an open court hearing in the review petition filed by Congress lawmaker Karti Chidambaram challenging the top court's July 27 verdict upholding the validity of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)

#PMLA

PMLA review hearing begins

CJI: Argue the review

#PMLAReview

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: Please take a look at a chart prepared for your convenience.
#PMLAReview

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Aug 25

{PEGASUS SCANDAL}

#SupremeCourt to shortly peruse the report submitted by th 3-member expert committee formed to probe into the alleged breach of citizens personal electronic devices with the #PegasusSpyware

CJI: The report is technical in the first part, then the part is by the overseeing judge. This is the joint report submitted and by the overseeing judge Justice Raveendran

#Pegasus #SupremeCourt

CJI: a file containing on the responses received is also enumerated. some of the confidential aspects is on section 3 which deals with malware, properties therein and how law enforcement agencies act on it

#Pegasus #SupremeCourt

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Aug 25

{BILKIS BANO CASE}

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear the plea challenging the decision of the Gujarat government to grant remission to 11 convicts who had gangraped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 #GujaratRiots

The three-judge bench to assemble now

#BilkisBano #Remission #SupremeCourt

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal; please see the petition...large number of lives were lost in communal riots..even in Limkheda village of Dahod district. Arson looting and violence took place. Bano and Shamin with others were escaping.. shamim delivered a child..

#BilkisBano #Remission

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Aug 24

#SupremeCourt is hearing the petition challenging the dropping of the 2007 Gorakhpur riots case involving Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: I am embarrassed, but i cannot appear in this case anymore

Adv Fuzzail Ayyubi appears for the petitioner

Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi: Nothing is remaining in this state. CSFL has stated that there is nothing. there is closure report too.

Justice Hima Kohli: closure report is accepted

Rohatgi: yes. Here the CD which is said to have the hate speech recording has been examined and its fake

Rohatgi: CSFL said the CD was tampered and so where there is the question of tamper.

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