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 to hear today #Meghalaya govt's plea challenging the HC order granting bail to #SonamRaghuwanshi, prime suspect in the chilling May 2025 "honeymoon murder" of her husband Raja Raghuwanshi
Bench: Justices MM Sundresh and Sheel Nagu
The High Court granted Sonam bail, primarily on the ground that grounds of arrest were not fully supplied to her at the time of arrest
Meghalaya govt has claimed that there was only a typographical error in the grounds supplied, insofar as S.103(1) BNS was mentioned as S.403(1).
#SonamRaghuwanshi bail challenge - Hearing begins
SG Tushar Mehta (for Meghalaya): This is really shocking. I will show 4 pages...this is a case where both of them go to Meghalaya for honeymoon...wife takes husband to hilly area and kills him...body thrown in valley...3 accomplices
J Sundresh: It was thrown or she pushed?
SG: He was killed and then dead body was thrown in gorge...found after 3 days. Lady herself was part of physical assault. She was arrested somewhere in UP...she absconded.
SG: First time the lady's bail was rejected. Please see pg. 161...I generally don't do this...but please see the name of the ld. judge...same ld. judge...the judge says there's prima facie material accused was involved in crime...and there was likelihood to abscond. Again, she applied for bail...a supplementary chargesheet was filed...it found that as plan B she was carrying a gun also...if husband could not be killed by assaulting on hill, weapon was there
SG assails grant of bail: There is no S.403 BNS...ld. Magistrate had explained her the grounds...This is in the teeth of judgment in State of Karnataka v. Darshan...court said prejudice has to be shown. Only typo error was there. For 3 consecutive bail applications, she does not raise this ground. She was represented by lawyer. She admits she did not raise this ground. You don't release somebody on technical grounds.
J Sundresh: What's the stage now?
SG: Stage of trial. Really painful. There are 94 witnesses. Sets a wrong precedent
J Sundresh: Prima facie we have a reservation about HC order...we will see how trial proceeds. Fact remains she was informed about grounds. In earlier bail pleas, she did not raise this issue.
#Breaking Counsel approaches Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice regarding listing of Abhishek Banerjee’s PA Sumit Roy’s anticipatory bail plea.
Counsel: Milord this is specially considering that your lordship is the master of the roster. We filed on 15th June and it was called by the concerned court.
Counsel: while my matter was pending, a raid was conducted at my house to arrest me on Saturday . The concerned court did not sit on Monday. Your lordship assigned the determination to another court.
We did not bother that court, but on Tuesday we mentioned the matter again.
Counsel: yesterday the court said the matter can be kept today before the original bench.
Even today the concerned bench is not sitting. Police is hounding me. My application is pending
#BREAKING Calcutta High Court hearing a plea by CPIM @cpimspeak challenging the West Bengal government has directed the reverification of all caste certificates issued to SC/ST and OBC individuals after 2011.
Court: this is our judgement
#CalcuttaHighCourt
Counsel: that is true. Here the question is the verification procedure. Entire thing cannot be reopened.
Court: we have struck down the entire thing. Now there has to be a filling up of the incorporation of new OBC
Counsel: everything SC ST and OBC. Some urgency is there. We have served.
"..Animals though bereft of human speech are not bereft of sentience, suffering and the capacity to experience pain. The law, in its civilisational wisdom, has long ceased to view animals as mere chattels existing solely for human utility. The law now recognises animals also to be living beings entitled to dignity, compassion and protection from cruelty...."
@PetaIndia Justice M Nagaprasanna quashes magistrate court's order directing the release of nine rescued dogs to their alleged abuser pending trial.
"...The measure of a civilised society is often reflected not merely by how it treats its humans but as to how it extends mercy and justice to voiceless creatures that inhabits this shared world. Therefore every act of cruelty against an animal is not merely an injury to a sentient being, but a blemish upon the collective human conscience... "
#BREAKING Calcutta High Court had admitted Mamata Banerjee’s (@MamataOfficial) election petition challenging Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari’s (@SuvenduWB) win from Bhabanipur constituency.
Court has directed the preservation of CCTV footage, EVM and VVPAT machines from the constituency.
#CalcuttaHighCourt @AITCofficial @ECISVEEP
Sr Adv Kalyan Bandopadhyay: CCTV camera will show everything milord
The returning officer in this matter was the RO in 2021 in Nandigram where Adhikari won against Banerjee.
Court: before we get into the merits, I want to make it very clear that my elder brother is the national spokesperson for the BJP @BJP4India and that might have some concerns
I’ll hear it only after full disclosure so you don’t have any issues later on
#CalcuttaHighCourt
Bandopadhyay: I have my all confidence and regard upon your lordship and I believe that when a person has become a judge
Court: it is my duty
Bandopadhyay: I’ve been told by others but I said I’m not concerned about it
2017 Actress Assault case: Kerala High Court has admitted the appeal filed by the State seeking enhancement of punishment for the convicts and challenging the acquittal of actor Dileep and others.