#SupremeCourt hears the suo motu case taken up over illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary and the threat to endangered aquatic wildlife, including gharials.

Bench: Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta. Last month, the Court passed various stringent directions for immediate compliance to curb illegal mining.

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#SupremeCourt dismisses a writ petition seeking a Special Investigating Team or a Court-monitored committee to investigate cross border smuggling of Areca nuts and trace the tax evasion trail under GST and Customs.

Bench: Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta. Petitioner's counsel: nuts are being imported into the country from Indonesia and from all over the world. There is clear cut smuggling. Especially in North East.

J Nath: what can we do? Approach the agencies who are working on this. There are so many of them.

#SupremeCourt hears the case where it earlier raised concern over High Courts delaying decision in bail matters and called for details of pending matters across the High Courts

Bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi

Order: Most HCs have furnished data. Though info. was readily available, but we do not deem necessary to incorporate in order, as most HCs have taken initiatives for timely disposal. Allahabad HC, where pendency is too large, and despite the fact that most Hon'ble judges are dealing with hundreds of cases in a day, problem continues. Order: We leave it to CJ of HC and Admn Committee to develop mechanism so that there is a definite date appearing in all bail applications...by judicial resource aggregation...in cause list also, listing of bail matters is to be prioritized

Similar mechanism needs to be evolved by Patna HC, where unfortunately bail matters are sometimes adjourned for months. Pendency of over 63000 bail applications in MP HC about a year back is also an alarming situation. Though we are hopeful that meanwhile a substantial part might have been disposed of. This order should not be taken as an aspersion on functioning of any high court.

#SupremeCourt to hear today two writ petitions registered suo motu over the recent incident involving an #AndhraPradesh High Court judge who ordered 24-hour police custody for a young advocate mid-hearing

Bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi

The cases were registered on representation/resolution of the Bar Council of India and Supreme Court Bar Association. Hearing begins

CJI: I got a report from the Chief Justice...that oral observation was not made part of judicial order

Sr Adv Vikas Singh (for SCBA): There should be some in-house...younger members of Bar should not be discouraged

CJI: We are also sensitizing judiciary at every level how to encourage younger members.

#SupremeCourt #SCBA #BCI #AndhraPradesh

#SupremeCourt to hear today the #WestBengalSIR matter and the suo motu case taken up over judicial officers' gherao in the State

Bench: CJI Surya Kant and J Joymalya Bagchi

Elections in West Bengal concluded on April 29 and results were declared on May 4. Hearing in #WestBengal judges' gherao matter begins

CJI: Security issue - what's the position?

ASG SV Raju: Will file latest status report on next date

CJI: If investigation is complete, you file chargesheet

Order: Mr Raju states that time be granted to file 1st status report. We are however of the view that investigation agency complete investigation expeditiously and preferably in 2 months. Law to take its own course. Admn and [...] directed to continue to provide protection to judicial officers. If authorities find there is no threat perception, apt. action may be taken.

#SupremeCourt #JudgesGherao

Delhi High Court to hear today CBI’s plea against discharge of all accused in excise policy case.

Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak have chosen to boycott proceedings before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma will hear the matter at 2:30 PM.

In the last hearing, the Court said that it will appoint today three senior lawyers as amici to represent the AAP leaders.

#SupremeCourt to hear plea challenging law providing that selection panel for appointing Election Commissioners will consist of the Prime Minister, a Union Cabinet Minister, and the Leader of Opposition.

Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma. The petitioners have argued that the law violates constitutional principles affirmed by the Supreme Court in Anoop Baranwal v. UoI judgement, which provided for a selection panel comprising the Chief Justice of India apart from PM and LoP.
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#SupremeCourt hears plea challenging law which dropped the Chief Justice of India from selection panel appointing Election Commissioners.

Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma. SG Tushar Mehta: kindly keep it next week. I am stuck in the nine judge bench. I want to be present when the petitioners present their arguments.

J Datta: if you had told us one week back we could have accommodated. But we fixed this hearing a month back. Nine judge bench will not get over next week

#SupremeCourt hears a contempt petition filed by mother of a minor girl against AIIMS and Centre for non-compliance with its order permitting the minor to terminate 30 week pregnancy.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Last week, the Court had warned the Director of AIIMS, New Delhi as well as Principal Secretary and Secretry of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry of contempt charges if the order is not complied with by today, May 4th.

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#BREAKING #SupremeCourt registers suo motu case over the bail conditions imposed by Orissa High Court and Trial Courts requiring accused persons to clean police stations.

A bench led by CJI Surya Kant will consider the matter today.

Last week, @Article14live had reported about the orders passed by Odisha Courts directing Dalit & Adivasi persons, accused in cases over anti-mining protests, to clean police stations as a bail condition. Hearing in suo motu case over Odisha Court's bail conditions begins

CJI: We have taken suo motu notice...unfotunately HC and district courts are imposing some conditions which on the face of it are obnoxious...reflecting caste-based bias...it's a bringing a bad name to judicial institutions. We don't expect judiciary to impose such conditions in 2026.

#SupremeCourt to hear today the petition filed by Congress leader Pawan Khera challenging Gauhati HC’s refusal to grant him anticipatory bail in the FIR on the complaint of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife.

Bench led by Justice JK Maheshwari will hear.

#Assam #SupremeCourt Matter begins.

Bench: Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Atul Chandurkar.

#SupremeCourt hears Teesta Setalvad's plea seeking release of her passport.

Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Alok Aradhe. The Court had referred her plea to a 3 judge bench earlier this month.

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Obscene pornographic content being played repeatedly in the middle of hearings on VC before Delhi High Court’s Chief Justice bench.

VC meeting has been shut down twice. A random user logged in on VC shared his screen and played pornographic content on VC, while the Court was taking up a matter.

The VC was shut down but was opened later. However, when the incident occurred again, the VC has been shut down and has not been opened again yet.

Black sheep have to be dealt with immediately in order to protect the legal profession -

#SupremeCourt remarks while hearing a case in which a lawyer was blacklisted by a bank for alleged fraud and the bank communicated to other banks that the lawyer is not trustworthy. Court to BCI: has the BCI ever done an impact assessment of itself and the State Bar Councils? How long does it take for a client to get remedy against professional misconduct of a lawyer? How quickly and efficiently are you taking care of the complaints?

Day 10: #SupremeCourt to continue hearing Sabarimala reference, where larger issues concerning restriction of entry of women to Dargah, practice of FGM and ex-communication in the Dawoodi Bohra, and ex-communication of Parsi women after marrying a non-Parsi man have been raised. Respondents to begin their arguments today.

#SupremeCourt to pronounce judgment today at 10.30 AM in a batch of cases concerning the issue of #HateSpeeches/Hate Crimes

Bench: Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta Most of the petitions were filed in 2020, in the context of the 'Corona Jihad' slander campaign in social media, as well as the 'UPSC Jihad' show ran by Sudarshan TV. In 2020, the Court had passed orders to stop the telecast of the UPSC Jihad show.

#SupremeCourt #HateSpeech

Day 9: #SupremeCourt to continue hearing Sabarimala reference, where larger issues concerning restriction of entry of women to Dargah, practice of FGM and ex-communication in the Dawoodi Bohra, and ex-communication of Parsi women after marrying a non-Parsi man have been raised. Sr Adv Shamshad: there is another petition pending. so the affidavit will have to be considered.

#SupremeCourt hearing a rape on false promise to marry case.

Counsel: he met her when she was merely 18yo young widow. He promised to marry her.

J Nagarathna: why did she go and live with him before marriage? See when we ask these questions it is said that we are victim shaming, what is this? J Nagarathna: they could have gotten married.

Counsel: but he was already married which she did not know at the time.

J Nagarathna: but why did she live with him and have a child?

Counsel: She was abused. He has done this to many other women.

#SupremeCourt hearing a plea by mother of 7 months pregnant 15 year old child seeking permission for medical termination of pregnancy.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. SG Mehta: medical report says that there will be a threat to the life of mother and child in MTP.

SG says that an adoption can be set up through CARA which may be anonymous in order to protect the privacy and reputation of the girl and her family.

#WestBengalSIR: #SupremeCourt to hear today a plea filed by 71 persons seeking to vote in the West Bengal elections regardless of pendency of their appeals against exclusion from the electoral roll

The petitioners seek a declaration that their validly appearing names in the earlier roll (2002) shall continue to remain in force for all purposes, including the West Bengal elections

Another petition seeking similar relief, filed by 6 persons, also listed before the Court

The main #WestBengalSIR matter and the suo motu case taken up over judicial officers' gherao in WB also listed

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, J Joymalya Bagchi and J Vipul M Pancholi #WestBengalSIR

Pleas by persons seeking to vote despite pendency of appeals taken up

J Bagchi: In respect of appeals pending before ATs, we have already passed order...[Will pass the same]

Sr Adv MR Shamshad (for petitioners): 65 petitioners are those who are on election duty. EPIC nos. deleted. Person who is conducting election can't vote - one issue. Many not given show-cause notice.

#WestBengalElections

#SupremeCourt hears ED's writ petition alleging that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and state police officers obstructed its search of the office of I-PAC, the political consultant of All India Trinamool Congress.

Bench: Justices PK Mishra and Justice NV Anjaria. In the previous hearing, the Court orally questioned whether the Enforcement Directorate can seek a remedy from the state government against the alleged obstruction by the head of the state government, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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