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.
Delhi High Court is hearing a PIL alleging continuous surveillance on student protesters at Jantar Mantar by Delhi Police.
Matter before Chief Justice bench.
@Cockroachisback
Court: Why plurality of petitions?
Senior Adv Nandita Rao appears for Petitioner requests for notice.
SGI Tushar Mehta: I have preliminary objection.
Rao: Law in Puttuswamy is very clear. In a democratic polity, there is right to privacy at public place. Even during protest. Yes it can be restrained but there is triple test. It is to be based on State need and it has to be proportionate.
Bhojshala Temple - Kamalmaula Mosque matter mentioned before #SupremeCourt.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta: The government machinery and community leaders are consulting each other and they are jointly trying to find a place.
Kindly have it on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Senior Advocate Huzefa Ahmedi: I had first mentioned it on Wednesday and pointed out that we have already missed two Friday prayers. They are not allocating a site either adjacent or near as per your lordships' orders.
Huzefa: it was supposed to be listed today but strangely it was not in the list. There refusing to give a suicide which is near or adjacent. There was a meeting with community leaders but they are giving us a site which is 1.3 kms away if you go by the road
#SupremeCourt hears PIL seeking to restrain livestream and video circulation of court proceedings
Sr Adv Vikas Singh: Livestream - personally I don't see any problem
CJI Kant: Now this forces everyone to read things
J Bagchi: Regulating data is one of the biggest challenges in digital space...so we should ensure limited access and therefore restrict live stream itself. Parties must expressly make prayer that I want to see...IT CAN'T BE 24/7 ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL BY COURT
Singh flags what happened in J KV Viswanathan's court: it has become a joke.
SG Tushar Mehta backs Singh's submissions
Issue of short clips of court proceedings circulating without context flagged
SG: Suppose your lordships are saying something to me and I am responding...there are AI tools...with same lip movement, my and your lordships' words can be changed in our respective voices
CJI - In print forum, I have already experienced. What I never said was thrusted upon me by these people
Singh presses for interim order
SG: In some HCs, some people try to be social media celebrities
CJI: Current example is day before. Morning, mentioning is made before me. Till today 10 AM, no petition is filed. Can an application sent to Secy General be entertained as a writ petition?
Singh: A petition was pending on that in Delhi HC. Probably lawyer did not know HC was seized of issue
SG: He does it every time. Background only lawyers would know.
Notice issued
On oral mentioning, High Courts also impleaded
Order: Union will put up a proposal wrt the nodal ministries to give effect to the prayers made in the petition
Singh presses for interim order
SG: I join Mr Singh
Singh: Even this hearing may be misinterpreted
Order: HCs to submit report on adoption of [...] circulated by this court. They will also explain impact of continuous live streaming
J Bagchi: Requests are made for online access. That link is shared. That also has to be regulated
Singh: It's being used to show I argued this or that
SG - Facebook and Instagram full of such clips
J Bagchi - We cannot stop demon which is out of bag.
#SupremeCourt to continue hearing pleas filed by @UDF_BHARAT and @FAIMA_INDIA_ raising structural issues regarding the working of @NTA_Exams in light of failures to conduct the NEET exam.
@UDF_BHARAT @FAIMA_INDIA_ @NTA_Exams Bench: JJ PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe
AoR Tanvi Dubey(for lead petitioners):
J Narasimha: what is the progress?
SG Mehta: some development, request subject to assist after a few days to present holistic view
J Narasimha: we want to highlight a new things. last time we mentioned about Radhakrishan committee, we made reference to governing board and this would comprise of transparency, nomination and stakeholders. domain specific requirment, you have highlighted IIT has been considered, you have not indicated how.
Mehta: something beyond committee report may also be possible.
Delhi High Court to hear today PIL seeking NIA probe into the students protest over NEET exam leak issue. Plea alleges there is foreign funding behind the agitation.
Matter to be heard by CJ bench.
The matter is listed at item 59. Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya is hearing item 57 at the moment.
"Lalita Kumari judgment has become a fashion...just because complaint is made, people say register FIR...that's not the import of the judgment"
- CJI Surya Kant
CJI bench hearing a plea seeking FIR registration over alleged custodial death of a man by consuming 100 diabetes pills
Sr Adv for petitioner: A dying declaration is there.
Bench suggests that an FIR could be registered and further course determined based on investigation
SG SV Raju: Magistrate enquiry is going on. Post-mortem done by 5 doctors. No injury found
J Bagchi: Was he a drug addict?
Sr Adv: No, these were diabetes pills. He was under medication. In hospital for 4 days. 16th - he got admitted, 20th he died. Was taken to hospital by police
J Bagchi: Unnatural death in police custody...preliminary enquiry required. If there is any [...] material, FIR has to be registered. Mr Raju says Magistrate enquiry going on. Dying declaration only mentions he was assaulted
Sr Adv: On the same day when my father died, I said I was forcibly given...
ASG: Not a whisper. Incorrect.
Sr Adv: That's the way state is trying to protect.
J Bagchi: What is most compelling? The dying declaration. It is of assault. Your case of assault had been true if injuries noted were ante-mortem. If you are saying post-mortem is manipulated...
Sr Adv: I am saying so. State is protecting. let P.E. be by independent agency. Let it be by CBI. Let the post-mortem be investigated.