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May 29 20 tweets 4 min read
Supreme Court Bar Association to soon begin farewell function for Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Pankaj Mithal Image SCBA President Vikas Singh: There is an interesting thing which came out before I came to the dias. Justice Karol mentioned he was the member of the Bar and why can't judge continue to be a member of the Bar. From now onwards we will be making all retired judges as honorary members of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
May 29 14 tweets 3 min read
Kerala High Court is hearing the pre-arrest bail plea of Viral Kumb Mela star and her husband Farmaan in abduction case registered by MP Police

#KeralaHighCourt #KumbMela #Abduction Image The case is being heard by Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath
May 29 17 tweets 4 min read
#SupremeCourt to hear plea by @wfi_wrestling challenging the Delhi High Court order permitting wrestler @Phogat_Vinesh to participate in the selection trials for the Asian Games 2026. Image Advocate: This is quite disturbing

ASG KM Nataraj appears

Advocate: apart from consequence, this was not dictated in open court. look at the consequences, its an ad interim order.

J Narasimha: we have some questions to ask you

Adv Divan: i just want to participate, I am not seeking any concession

J Narasimha: you took a sabbatical that august 2025 you will start parcipating. 3 june 2025 you informed that sabbatical ended and you become a mother. the eligibility commences with the ITA letter. ITA wrote a letter on 3 july that you will be eligible from janaury 1, 2206
May 29 11 tweets 3 min read
#SupremeCourt hears batch of petitions challenging NEET-UG cancellation by @NTA_Exams Image @NTA_Exams SG Mehta appears.
May 29 14 tweets 3 min read
#SupremeCourt pronounces judgement in a batch of petitions involving the issue of huge delay in pronouncement of judgements after conclusion of hearing.

Bench: Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. Image Court: for complete justice to the parties, intervention is necessary to formulate uniform guidelines to address delays.

The guidelines shall Take effect from the date of this judgement.
May 29 9 tweets 2 min read
Calcutta #HighCourt to hear the anticipatory bail application by Actor-Director #ParambrataChatterjee in an FIR over promoting enmity among groups during the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections through social media posts.

Bench: Justice Ajoy Kumar MukherjeeImage Advocate Sarmistha Basak, for Chatterjee: Every case has its limits of being stretched. Petitioner is a known actor in Bengali Film industry.
May 29 14 tweets 3 min read
Delhi High Court to hear a plea by Abhijit Dipke, the founder of 'Cockroach Janata Party' challenging the blocking of the party's X account.

Matter before Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav. Image Matter taken up.

SGI Tushar Mehta appearing for Centre along with ASG Chetan Sharma.
May 27 5 tweets 1 min read
#MadrasHighCourt directs State Government to ensure that no cow or calf is slaughtered on the eve of Bakrid or on any other day.
#Cowslaughter Sacrifice of any animal by the Muslims for the religious purpose on BakrI’d does not include slaughtering of cows as the only way of carrying out that sacrifice: #MadrasHighCourt
#cowslaughter
#Bakrid
May 27 5 tweets 2 min read
#SupremeCourt hears matter related to funds of home buyers misappropriated by the buyers. Image Advocate Prashant Bhushan: crores collected by home buyers and siphoned off. there are larger issues which arise mylords are saying this issue keeps on happening. home owners are left in a situation where diverted funds are never identified because diverted to other companies.

these people, they transfer lands etc-larger issue needs to be examined.

CJI: RBI can conduct audit [reads the prayer]
May 27 5 tweets 2 min read
#SupremeCourt dismisses journalist's SLP against interim injunction in a defamation case arising out of the her post alleging that she was sexually harrassed by the plaintiff in a flight.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Image Counsel: I am 24 year old victim of sexual violence and an aircraft and a journalist. The perpetrator rushes to High Court and managers to get it in interim stage.

J Nagarathna: why did you why did you go to social media and expose yourself?
May 27 5 tweets 1 min read
#SupremeCourt hears petition regarding VVPAT time stamp Image Advocate Devadutt Kamat mentions.
May 27 4 tweets 1 min read
#SupremeCourt to hear today pleas challenging constitutional validity of Election Commissioners Act 2023 dropping Chief Justice of India from panel appointing Election Commissioners

#CJI #electioncommissioners Image Matter taken up

Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma

SG: that matter be taken up after vacation

#CJI #electioncommissioners
May 27 10 tweets 3 min read
#SupremeCourt hears plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking cancellation of bail granted to two persons accused of gangrape and parading women naked during the Manipur ethnic clashes of 2023. Image Advocate: mylords wanted to hear the victims.

CJI: we have received disturbing reports, some innocent childrens were killed. CRPF opened firing, the other side opened firing.

advocate: trial is in process, earlier it was not progressing because victims were forced to appear. there was also translation issue because of Kuki language. there was application which said that victims were not ready to go to Guwahti. on last occasion, because internet was down, they could not join. one witness has been examined, two are left. 6-7 months, we would conclude trial
May 27 8 tweets 2 min read
#MadrasHighCourt hears a habeas corpus plea in which it had summoned former Commissioner of Police and current chief of TN #DVAC IPS officer Arun for having issued a detention order against realtor in cheating case Image While ordering the IPS officer to appear, the bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the detention order was "atrocious" and reading it "shocked the judicial conscience"
#ArunIPS
May 27 16 tweets 4 min read
#SupremeCourt to soon pronounce judgment in petitions by @_YogendraYadav, @adrspeaks challenging the legality of Special Intensive Revision(SIR) in #Bihar, West Bengal and in other States conducted by @ECISVEEP. Image @_YogendraYadav @adrspeaks @ECISVEEP It may be noted that the Court did not interdict the SIR process, and it has been completed in Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal. It is ongoing in several other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan etc.
May 26 24 tweets 3 min read
Delhi HC is hearing #KuldeepSinghSengar's plea for suspension of life sentence in the Unnao rape case. Image Earlier this month Supreme Court set aside high court's December order suspending his sentence and remitted it for fresh decision.

#KuldeepSinghSengar #DelhiHighCourt
May 25 14 tweets 2 min read
#TwishaSharma #DowryDeath Case: Madhya Pradesh #HighCourt to shortly hear State's and Parents' plea against #anticipatorybail granted to mother-in-law Giribala Singh

Bench: Justice Devnarayan MishraImage Sr Advocate Siddharth Luthra, along with Advocate Anurag Shrivastav, appearing for the Parents of the victim
May 25 10 tweets 3 min read
#SupremeCourt hears plea challenging municipal body elections in Punjab being conducted using paper ballots instead of Electronic Voting Machines.

Bench: CJI Surya Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi. Image Counsel for petitioner: elections are sought be conducted by ballot papers. In your judgement in ADR v. Union of India has said that EVM have to be the norm.

CJI: elections are tomorrow, what can be done now? there is no time left.
May 25 4 tweets 1 min read
#SupremeCourt grants bail to former Chhattisgarh Excise Commissioner Niranjan Das arrested in alleged corruption and money laundering case arising out of the CG liquor scam.

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi. Image Court: the role assigned to him is of the orchestrator and he is described as one of the kingpins. He is also alleged to have grossly abused his public office causing large scale financial implications to the state exchequer.
May 25 16 tweets 3 min read
#SupremeCourt to hear today the suo motu case registered over the Twisha Sharma dowry death case.

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi

Follow this thread for updates. Image The Court registered the case titled 'In Re Alleged Institutional Bias and Procedural Discrepancies in the Unnatural Death of Young Woman at Matrimonial Home' on Saturday based on media reports and other circumstances.
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May 22 7 tweets 2 min read
#SupremeCourt hears plea involving issue of reservation for creamy layer of backward classes.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Image J Nagarathna: If both parents are IAS officers why should they have reservations?

Advocate Shashank Ratnoo: They were not removed for their salary but because of their status. Because they are a group A employees and they are removed. Group B are also removed.