[Plea alleging attacks against Christians in India in #SupremeCourt]
SG Mehta: Please see the compliance. The petitioner claimed that there are some 500 incidents where Christians were attacked. We sent everything to State government.
SG Mehta: We collated all information we got. First let's see Bihar. The total number which Petitioner gave are internal fights between neighbours one of which happens to be Christian - this they have resolved.
SG Mehta: Wherever actual offence was committed, that has been noted. The figure given by them, which obviously persuaded your lordships, was not correct.
CJI DY Chandrachud: Adv Colin Gonsalves, appearing for petitioner, says that the affidavit was placed late last night so time is required to consider it. We'll grant you three weeks to place a response.
SG Mehta: Kindly have it after 2 weeks. What was the basis of figure? That they said we have a helpline and whoever reported we counted - so there were 495 attacks. State governments say this never happened. This is how it is being displayed outside the country.
Sr Adv CD Vaidyanathan (for Respondents) : Please allow me to file a reply. Can there be a permanent Prohibition? There can be ban during a health emergency but no total Prohibition.
Sr Adv Abhishek Singhvi: Previous State notification expired years ago.
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal for govt: If it is injurious to public can the year on year argument be used? Can cancer depend on it?
Bench: Why don't you ban it permanently?
Sibal: That's for the Centre.
Bench: What you can't do directly? Can you do it indirectly?
'Commander in Thief' - Bombay High Court to shortly hear Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking quashing of an FIR in Mumbai for his alleged defamatory remarks against PM Narendra Modi
Sr Adv AM Singhvi: A PIL by a political leader will get transferred to CBI. Point two, the writ is filed on 27th and the order is passed on 28th. Third, in counter before HC I've denied the allegations.
Singhvi: Your lordships have not given them a chance! How can the probe be transferred? What is the point of jurisdictional bar if CBI can enter your area without consent?
'MEDIEVIAL CONSERVATIVE MINDSET on CONCEPT of FAMILY'
#BombayHighCourt sets aside order disallowing a divorcee from adopting sister’s child on the ground that she was a SINGLE WORKING WOMAN and wouldn’t be able to give personal attention to the #child.
“Generally, a single parent is bound to be a working person, maybe with some rare exceptions. Thus, by no stretch of the imagination, a single parent can be held to be ineligible to be an adoptive parent on the ground that he/she is a working person.” - #BombayHighCourt
The comparison done between the biological mother being a housewife and the prospective adoptive mother (single parent) being a working lady reflects a mindset of the medieval conservative concepts of a family...
#SupremeCourt to hear plea filed by Abdul Nazir Maudany, the chairman of Kerala People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and a prime accused in the 2008 Bengaluru serial bomb blasts case, seeking a relaxation of his bail conditions allowing him to live in his hometown in Kerala
Counsel for State: I have checked witnesses are examined and final arguments are going on in a day to day basis.
Justice Rastogi: As on today the hearing is going on?
Sibal: For 3 months the Public Prosecutor is arguing.
Sibal: I have an ailing father in Kerala, mother has passed away.
Justice Trivedi: You want to go and visit and then come back?
Sibal: No, no. I am on bail for 8 years. I have not done anything for 8 years.