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 the suo motu case taken up over a chapter on 'Corruption in Judiciary' in NCERT's Class 8 social science textbook
Bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
Order: The committee to collaborate with NJA to finalise the curriculum of class 8 and higher grades.
Senior Advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan: we are for the three authors. Apart from blacklisting us some observations have been made about our knowledge. we have filed applications they may be heard.
Sankarnarayanan: on the day the mentioning was happened The Indian express article was shown to your lordships saying that Judiciary is being singled out. But class 7 class 6 all the textbooks do deal with the challenges faced by the legislature etc.
#SupremeCourt hears Vedanta Ltd. plea challenging NCLAT order that refused to restrain the implementation of Adani Enterprises resolution plan for JAL.
Bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal for Vedanta: I don't want your lordships to interfere. I just want NCLAT to hear the appeal on the 10th. And nothing happen till then.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta for CoC: For us the difference is 500 Crores but there are several parameters. The implementation takes 50 days but nothing can happen in 3 days.
J Bagchi: as the appeal is pending let not a substantial policy decision be taken without the leave of NCLAT
#SupremeCourt hears petition filed by Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust seeking a Court-monitored investigation into certain leaked audio clips, allegedly in the voice of Biren Singh
The Court had earlier passed an order seeking fresh FSL report
J Kumar: According to forensic university, the 48 minute audio, according to them it has been tampered with
J Kumar: [reads the report] forensic examination indicated the use of editing processing software
on whether voice belonged to the admitted voice- due to the inherent limited limitation above, matching could not be carried out, available evidence doesn't support a definite definition
J Kumar: nothing has come out
@pbhushan1: they kept the original recording...I will ask my source whether the person who recorded is willing, obviously his voice will be revealed- his voice was edited out
J Kumar: we sought despite that, the exercise could be undertaken
#SupremeCourt hears plea challenging environmental clearance granted to Wayanad tunnel construction in Kerala.
Bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
Senior Advocate Shyam Divan: if the law prescribes that it be done in a particular manner it must be done in that manner. The entire appraisal process has to be done by central government and not the state. High Court has proceeded thinking it is in category A but it isn't
Divan: year after year there are huge and enormous landslides in that area. The recent one was in 2024 and over 400 people died.