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Feb 18 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Supreme Court to hear plea by Ranveer Allahabadia challenging multiple FIRs filed against him after he made certain remarks on India's Got Latent show
@BeerBicepsGuy #SupremeCourt #Indiasgotlatent
Dr Abhinav Chandrachud: Petitioner has got death threats.. 5 lakh reward for cutting his tongue. Former wrestler says he should not be spared in any party we meet him. All for a 10 second clip.
Feb 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Supreme Court hears the plea by Association of Democratic Reforms
CJI Sanjiv Khanna: what is this for ?
Adv Prashant Bhushan: we are Seeking that the procedure which ECI needs to adopt as per supreme Court judgment is in consonance with their standard operating protocol. What we want is that somebody should examine the software and the hardware of the EVMs in order to see if the software and hardware has any element of manipulation or not
CJI: Once votes are counted the paper trails are taken out or it's still there
Bhushan: they should maintain the paper trail
Sr Adv Devadatta Kamath: I appear for Sarva mitter. The entire data was wiped out. the evms on which polling was done should be tested.
CJI: to be done within seven days.. and the machine could be as per candidate choice and the burnt memory could be checked and verified.
Feb 11 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Supreme Court hears PIL by National Federation of Indian Women over the alleged increase in cases of Lynching and MobViolence, particularly by 'CowVigilantes'
Justice BR Gavai: Issue has already concluded. Can we revive that by way of another writ
Adv Nizamuddin Pasha: But the issue is when private individuals are given police powers to seize vehicles and nab people for cattle smuggling.. this is how police powers are given to private agencies. Attitude of state machinery needs to be looked at and see how brazen it is.. some kind of oversight from this court will help
Justice Gavai: You can challenge those notifications before the court
Pasha: It exists across states and is across spectrum
SG Tushar Mehta: I appear for the Union. If such things are happening it can be challenged
Pasha: 13 states follow this rule
Jan 28 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Should former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain granted interim bail in a case related to Delhi riots so that he may campaign for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls as an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate?
#SupremeCourt to hear @AamAadmiParty @aimim_national
The case comes to a three-judge bench after Justice Pankaj Mithal ruled that bail should be denied and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah stated that bail should be granted #TahirHussain #DelhiElection2025
Jan 20 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Supreme Court hears the case where village residents oppose the burial of a Christian man in the graveyard of their village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar
Son of deceased Ramesh Baghel, a farmer from a Scheduled Caste (SC) community, who has kept the body in a mortuary for 12 days now is before supreme court
Justice BV Nagarathna: Why cannot a person before buried where they wanted to. Body is in mortuary? We are sorry to say that A person has to come to supreme court for the burial of his father. The HC, panchayat etc are not able to solve the problem. The HC says there will be law and order problem.. we are pained at this.
SG Tushar Mehta: if the case is to be decided only on emotions then I have nothing to say, else let it be argued
Sr Adv Colin Gonsalves: see the real reason, burial not being allowed because the person had converted.
SG: Intention may be to make this a precedent for rest of country. There is burial ground for the tribals who are not Christians. Though they are not christians they bury their dead. When christians die, just 20 km away there is a christian burial ground and they take the dead their and bury them. This ground is a Hindu tribal burial ground. Thus rather than not being vehement that I will not go 20 kms away.. then there are laws..
Jan 2 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
#SupremeCourt hears plea seeking quashing of the entire process of designation of 70 lawyers as senior advocates undertaken by the Delhi High Court
Adv Mathew Nedumpara makes submissions
Dec 28, 2024 • 38 tweets • 4 min read
#Madrashighcourt will continue hearing today, the batch of petitions on the sexual assault of a student inside the Anna University campus in Chennai.
The vacation bench of
Justices SM Subramaniam and V Lakshminarayan assembles
Dec 19, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Supreme Court to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Calcutta High Court's order which set aside the appointments in over 24,000 teaching and non-teaching posts in government schools #SupremeCourt @MamataOfficial
Sr Adv Vibha Datta Makhija: we would need two days.
CJI Sanjiv Khanna: Yes let us start. No piecemeal arguments.
State: Let the state start.
Dec 16, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Supreme Court hears appeal challenging the Madras High Court's decision to allow Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna to receive the Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi Award.
ASG Venkataraman: Award was
conferred and it was greatly publicised. He is a person who made misogynistic comment against her
#SupremeCourt
ASG: the single judge order is in effect. The music academy could not have given the award yersterday. Can an injunction be breached and a public act be committee? Court is not powerless.
Dec 13, 2024 • 96 tweets • 11 min read
Pushpa 2 hero Allu Arjun ARRESTED.
- LIVE UPDATES from Telangana High Court
- Allu Arjun is being represented by G Ashok Reddy
- Justice Juvvadi Sridevi to hear the matter
Justice Sridevi to hear the matter at 4 PM
#AlluArjun #ALLUARJUNARRESTED
Dec 11, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Bhushan Steel insolvency case: #SupremeCourt to shortly hear the case
Earlier Enforcement Directorate (ED) has stated that its appeal against JSW Steel's takeover of Bhushan Power and Steel might not be required to be argued in view of Section 32A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)
Adv Zoheb Hossain: if the relief can be moulded then the plea can be disposed off.
Justice Bela Trivedi: are you appearing on behalf of SG Mehta?
Hossain: Attachment by ED has been made after the approval of plan by NCLT.. thus prayer can be considered. If it is restored then let the attachment be restored to resolution professional under 8(8).
Dec 9, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Tempers flare in #SupremeCourt amid hearing in case concerning adv Charanjeet Singh Chanderpal; Court urges lawyers to maintain discipline.
Court: If all of you behave like this ... Don’t you know this being livestreamed? Don’t you know these things are going in public domain?
Court: Don’t you think that this kind of behaviour inside the courtroom – what kind of impression is being given to the public? What kind of message is being given, you are officers of the Court all of you!
#SupremeCourt #CourtroomExchange
Nov 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#BREAKING: Supreme Court issues notice on plea challenging constitutional validity of provisions of Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986
Bench: Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan
#UPGangstersAct
Senior Adv R Basant (appears for Petitioner): Whether only on basis of one base case another case under the act can be registered by the police itself. Furthermore, police is complainant, prosecutor and adjudicator under provisions of the act. Please note. This is important
Nov 26, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#SupremeCourt is hearing a PIL seeking introduction of physical ballot system during elections
"Even Elon Musk (@elonmusk) says that EVMs can be tampered," the petitioner argues
PIL is preferred by Evangelist Dr KA Paul
A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice PB Varale is hearing the plea
Nov 13, 2024 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Whether chargesheet filed without Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report in case under NDPS Act, 1985 can be termed as 'incomplete report' under CrPC? #SupremeCourt to shortly hear the matter
#SupremeCourt to shortly hear appeal by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) against 2023 Delhi HC decision ruling that application for drawing sample of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substance before Magistrate u/s 52A of NDPS Act should be made within 72 hours @narcoticsbureau
In May 2023, the High Court had observed that such an application cannot be moved at the “whims and fancies” of Narcotics Control Bureau, being the prosecuting agency.
Nov 13, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
#BULLDOZERJUSTICE ?
Supreme Court to shortly deliver judgment laying down pan-India guidelines on use of bulldozer by state governments as a punitive measure to demolish house or shop of a person immediately after he or she is named as accused of an offence
#SupremeCourt
Judgement to be delivered by a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Vishwanathan
#SupremeCourt #bulldozer
Nov 8, 2024 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
Supreme Court Bar Association holds farewell for CJI DY Chandrachud #SupremeCourtofIndia
Sr Adv Rachana Srivastava, VP SCBA: CJI Chandrachud was a part of 23 constitution benches. Your journey in the legal world has pushed boundaries. You leave behind a court which has hope for all of us. You had unwavering dedication to the rule of law.
Nov 8, 2024 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Ceremonial bench on the last working day of CJI DY Chandrachud
CJI Chandrachud along with CJI Designate Sanjiv Khanna, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra
#SupremeCourt
Attorney General R Venkataramani: Recently in Brazil after the conference ended everyone started dancing. what if I ask everyone here to dance on your retirement and I am sure most will vote in favour of me.
Nov 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING Supreme Court to State of UP: How can you just enter someone's home and demolish it without following course of law or serving notice?
CJI DY Chandrachud: We are not inclined to accept the request of the State of UP to adjourn the proceedings since pleadings are completed and the court is required to evaluate the materials placed before to decide legality of action.
#SupremeCourtofIndia @myogioffice
CJI: The following position emerges from narration of facts: state of UP has not produced original width of state highway notified as national highway, no material was placed to show whether any inquiry was conducted to figure out encroachers, there is no material produced to indicate that land was acquired before demolition was carried out. The state has failed to disclose the precise extent of encroachments, the width of the existing road, the width of notified highway, extent of property of petitioner which feel within central line of highway and why the demolition was needed beyond the area of alleged encroachment. NHRC report shows demolition was far in excess than the area of alleged encroachment. #SupremeCourtofIndia
Oct 22, 2024 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Supreme Court resumes hearing the challenge to the Allahabad High Court verdict which struck down the UP Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004
Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi: the judgment goes against the principle of secularism.. it essentially helps that concept by allowing this education..
CJI DY Chandrachud: secularism essentially means to live and let live
Rohatgi: the HC has gone against it.
#Madrasas #SupremeCourt
CJI: are you standing by the validity of the act...
ASG KM Natraj: Yes I support the validity of the act. But since constitutionality has been struck down we want to say something. we are defending the legislation but the state did not file a SLP