CJI DY Chandrachud: Please don't raise your voice. This is not the way to behave as the President of SCBA. You're asking for a land allotted to the SC to be given to the bar. I have made my decision. It will be taken on 17th and it will not be first on board.
Singh: Just because the bar doesn't do anything doesn't mean it should be taken for granted. I feel strongly for this. 20 years lawyers have been waiting to be allotted chambers.
CJI DY Chandrachud: Mr Singh, I am the Chief Justice of India. I have been on the bench for long. I have never let myself be brow beaten by bar members and I will not let it happen in the final 2 years of my life.
#SupremeCourt hears plea challenging law which dropped the Chief Justice of India from selection panel appointing Election Commissioners.
Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma.
SG Tushar Mehta: kindly keep it next week. I am stuck in the nine judge bench. I want to be present when the petitioners present their arguments.
J Datta: if you had told us one week back we could have accommodated. But we fixed this hearing a month back. Nine judge bench will not get over next week
J Datta: let your associates take notes today. let the petitioners start. All matters are important. we read in the newspaper that there is an observation that the PIL in sabrimala should not have been entertained by the court. So with due respect to the judges, nine judges are occupied in a matter where there is an observation that it should not have been entertained in the first place
#SupremeCourt hears a contempt petition filed by mother of a minor girl against AIIMS and Centre for non-compliance with its order permitting the minor to terminate 30 week pregnancy.
Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan.
Last week, the Court had warned the Director of AIIMS, New Delhi as well as Principal Secretary and Secretry of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry of contempt charges if the order is not complied with by today, May 4th.
The Court had permitted the minor to terminate the pregnancy beyond the statutory limit holding that compelling her to complete the pregnancy against her will would amount to violation of her fundamental right under Article 21. livelaw.in/top-stories/wo…
#BREAKING #SupremeCourt registers suo motu case over the bail conditions imposed by Orissa High Court and Trial Courts requiring accused persons to clean police stations.
A bench led by CJI Surya Kant will consider the matter today.
Last week, @Article14live had reported about the orders passed by Odisha Courts directing Dalit & Adivasi persons, accused in cases over anti-mining protests, to clean police stations as a bail condition.
Hearing in suo motu case over Odisha Court's bail conditions begins
CJI: We have taken suo motu notice...unfotunately HC and district courts are imposing some conditions which on the face of it are obnoxious...reflecting caste-based bias...it's a bringing a bad name to judicial institutions. We don't expect judiciary to impose such conditions in 2026.
Order: ...These protests largely made by Adivasi and Dalit communities are stated to have turned violent. Some protestors engaged in anti-mining protests and attacked Vedanta officials. We are not concerned with legality of land acquisition or veracity of FIRs. Relevant development is that 40 individuals were arrested, and while some were granted bail, relief of bail was subjected to range of conditions.
Notably, these conditions included an unprecedented requirement that accused must undertake cleaning of police stations for 2 months. For instance, the Odisha HC in cases of [...] while granting bail imposed the aforesaid peculiar conditions and observed...another similar order was passed by addl. district and sessions judge.
#SupremeCourt to hear today the petition filed by Congress leader Pawan Khera challenging Gauhati HC’s refusal to grant him anticipatory bail in the FIR on the complaint of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife.
Bench led by Justice JK Maheshwari will hear.
#Assam #SupremeCourt
Matter begins.
Bench: Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Atul Chandurkar.
Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi: this is an unprecedented case where my apprehension of arrest is fully made out by the prosecutor himself in an unprecedented manner.
Singhvi takes the Court through statements made by the CM Himanta Biswas Sarma against Khera.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal: anyway when she goes abroad she will have to take your lordships permission. But she was saying that her renewal is coming up in a year so she needs passport for that.