#SupremeCourt to hear today petitions challenging the conduct of NEET-PG 2025 in two-shifts.

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#NEETPG2025 #NEETPG Matter taken up.

Counsel: stream is decided based on this exam. It is based on rank. Even a one mark difference will decide whether I get my preferred stream - radiology, gynecology etc. It will make a huge difference on whether I get the University of my choice.

ANI files defamation suit against YouTuber Mohak Mangal before Delhi High Court.

Suit also names Kunal Kamra and Mohd. Zubair as defendants for sharing Mangal’s YouTube video on their Twitter handles.

#Defamation #ANI @mohakmangal @zoo_bear @kunalkamra88 @ANI The matter will today be heard by Justice Amit Bansal.

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#Defamation #DelhiHighCourt @ANI @mohakmangal @zoo_bear @kunalkamra88

Hearing resumes in the matter.

J Godse: Except for that post is there anyother crime against her? Did she herself wrote that post?

Adv Farhana Shah for the girl tells the court that her client has merely reposted someone else's post and deleted it within 2 hours.

#BombayHighCourt #OperationSindoor Bench is going through the case file to figure out what offence is made out as per the FIR.

J Godse: What is the allegation?

Adv Shah points out the relevant paragraphs from the FIR.

#OperationSindoor #BombayHighCourt

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear the election dispute of Supreme Court Bar Association (#SCBA)

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and KV Viswanathan

Yesterday, Sr Adv Vijay Hansaria, member of Election Committee constituted by the Court, informed that recounting of votes for the post of President had been scheduled to take place The Court, on its part, said that recounting shall take place for the President as well as Executive Member posts.

#SupremeCourt #SCBA

Bombay High Court to shortly hear a plea filed by a 19-year-old engineering student, who has been arrested for putting out a "critical post" about "Operation Sindoor" on social media.

A vacation bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan will be hearing the plea that has challenged her rustication from the college.

#OperationSindoor
#BombayHighCourt Matter called out.

Adv Farhana Shah appears for the Petitioner.
Additional Government Pleader Priyabhushan Kakade represents State.

#OperationSindoor #BombayHighCourt

#SupremeCourt hears #SCBAElectionDispute

Woman lawyer: Court ordered 33% reservation for women. This year, Election Committee has declared result on the basis of merit, not reservation

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and KV Viswanathan

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J Kant: Out of 6, 3 are women

Adv Kumud Lata Das: No.5 is Ashok Panigrahi...No.5 and 6 are reserved positions

J Kant: Let's not be greedy now. Our object was to ensure representation. It's only if woman candidate does not make it...we don't want any kind of heart-burning.

#SupremeCourt to continue hearing today petitions challenging the Waqf Amendment Act 2025.

A bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih will consider the pleas for interim orders.

#SupremeCourtofIndia #WaqfAmendmentAct

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SG Tushar Mehta to begin

Delhi High Court to hear defamation suit filed by nine women employees of digital news platform Newslaundry against Abhijit Iyer Mitra alleging that he had posted sexually abusive social media posts against them on X.

#Defamation #DelhiHighCourt Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav will hear the matter.

#DelhiHighCourt #Defamation

#SupremeCourt to hear today Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad's plea challenging Haryana Police FIR over his Facebook post on Operation Sindoor and his arrest in the case.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and NK Singh will hear the matter.

#AliKhanMahmudabad Matter taken up

#SupremeCourt passing order on suo moto plea on the issue of equalisation of salary of Consumer Forum members with district judges.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Bhuyan. The Court has earlier opined that salaries of State & District Consumer Commission Members should be uniform across the country and the last pay drawn by government officers and judges appointed as consumer forum members must be protected.
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#SupremeCourt pulls up lawyer who represents an accused in the Tamil Nadu cash for jobs scam trial for filing an SLP for the cause of the victims of the same scam.

The SLP is against trial court orders to club charge sheets.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. J Oka: This Anti Corruption Movement is supporting the accused?

Counsel: No my lord.

J Oka: Then how can you appear? You are appearing for accused in the same case. And you are appearing for the Anti Corruption Movement?

Over 7 lakh criminal appeals pending before High Courts:

#SupremeCourt asks HCs to accept suggestions for digitisation of court records, creation of post of Registrar (Case Management), and have regional benches with lower pendency dispose of pending cases in principal benches. Order: As of 22nd March, the total pendency of criminal appeals (appeals against conviction and acquittal) is 7,24,192. The major share of pendency is of Allahabad where total 2.77 lakh criminal appeals are pending. Madhya Pradesh has pendency of 1.15 lakh criminal appeals.

#SupremeCourt has issued contempt notice to Chief Secretaries of Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, and Haryana for non-compliance with its order to fill vacancies in all pollution control boards and committees by April 30, 2025.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Delhi Pollution Control Committee has more than 50% vacant posts. The court ordered the chief secretary to physically appear on 19th May. Personal presence of other Chief Secretaries dispensed with for the time being.

#SupremeCourt hears the Delhi Air Pollution matter regarding vehicular pollution, ban on firecrackers and stubble burning.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan.

#DelhiAirPollution IA challenging ban on firecrackers in West Bengal:

Court: in this PIL the court is only dealing with NCERT daily NCR. IA dismissed. All prayers kept open.

#SupremeCourt to continue hearing today the case where it proposed demotion of a Deputy Collector in Andhra Pradesh who, as Tahsildar, #demolished slum-dwellers' huts in violation of a High Court order

Bench: Justices BR Gavai and AG Masih Hearing begins

The petitioner-Deputy Collector shows disinclination to furnish undertaking that he would work at post of Deputy Tahsildar

Court is displeased

J Gavai: This shows his attitude towards orders of Courts!

[Sharbat Jihad Row]

Delhi High Court raps Baba Ramdev, says he lives in his own world and is not in anyone’s control.

This was after Court was informed that Ramdev again published a video against Hamdard’s Rooh Afza. Court finds him prima facie in contempt of previous order. The Court had recently rapped Ramdev over his remarks against Rooh Afza, saying that it shocked its conscience and was indefensible.

Later, Ramdev said that all advertisements will be removed by him and Patanjali.

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea seeking recall of judgement granting bail to Senthil Balaji in the money laundering case related to alleged cash-for-jobs scam in Tamil Nadu.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih.

#PMLA #Cash4JobsScam @dir_ed On the last date, the Supreme Court criticized Balaji's counsel for taking “technical defence” of lack of formal notice to Balaji in bail recall plea.

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#SupremeCourt hears PIL seeking that power of Supreme Court to pass any order necessary to do complete justice under Article 142 of the Constitution be also granted to High Courts.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. J Oka: How can we grant such prayer? It requires an amendment to the Constitution.

Petitioner in person: Constitution bench can decide.

J Oka: It can't amend constitution.

Petitioner: Where do I go?

J Oka: You go to the parliament. We can't amend the Constitution.

#SupremeCourt directs states and union territories to take effective steps for developing swift response protocols to ensure that road accident victims immediately get help.

Bench: Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Order: A very important issue has been flagged by the applicant. Road accidents in our country are on the rise. The reasons may be different. There are cases and cases where victims of road accidents (who are injured) do not get immediate healthcare.

#MadrasHighCourt continues hearing the pleas filed by State and TASMAC against the search conducted by #EnforcementDirectorate at #TASMAC headquarters.

Matter before bench of Justices SM Subramaniam and K Rajasekaran Yesterday, TASMAC argued that ED’s recent searches were in connection with the upcoming Tamil Nadu Elections as it wanted to tarnish the image of people involved in the election.

ASG SV Raju appearing for the #ED.

#tasmacscam

Supreme Court to hear at 2 PM today the petitions challenging the Waqf Amendment Act 2025.

A bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan will hear the matters.

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#SupremeCourt #WaqfAmendmentAct One counsel mentions his petition (against Waqf Amendment Act) for listing, says it is numbered but not listed.

CJI Khanna says all matters cleared by the Registry by 11 AM today will be listed.

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