Goa High Court Bar Association felicitates Chief Justice of India BR Gavai

CJI BR Gavai: Now the registry examines and only in very rare matters we permit oral mentions in the Supreme Court of India. The sitting at Goa as a part of division bench, like in SC you don't know which case is next, in Goa we had variety of litigation...whether it be mining or personal laws. CJI: I won't detain you all for long. For Goa standards, 7:30 pm is for something else.

Supreme Court hears appeal against Allahabad HC order upholding the trial court’s order permitting a court-monitored survey of the Sambhal Masjid

Justice PS Narasimha: It is being argued that this case has to be seen from the lens of Places of Worship Act, 1991

Adv Vishnu Shankar Jain: Just by saying that the act is attracted does not attract the 1991 act. SC: Question is survey arising out of 1991 act or the ASI act..

Sr Adv Huzefa Ahmadi: They say 1991 act does not apply..HC says there is no bar..I am in appeal and in meanwhile all surveys were stated.

Jain: On the face of it

Justice Narasimha: Yes you have a point that it is not concerned with 1991 act.. and HC gave finding against the Muslim side.. so we need to hear this.. the challenge is pending here...

Supreme Court to resume hearing the Bihar SIR case today

Earlier the top court had asked the Election Commission of India @ECISVEEP to upload online the list of 65 lakh voters proposed to be deleted during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision

#SupremeCourt #BiharSIR_2025 Sr Adv Rakesh Dwivedi for the Election Commission of India: We have complied with it letter and spirit. Apart from BLA and panchayat we have also pasted this outside police stations.

#SupremeCourt #BiharSIR_2025

Supreme Court to shortly pronounce judgment on petitions seeking stay on suo motu directions passed Justice JB Pardiwala led bench to remove the stray dogs in Delhi NCR #StrayDogs #SupremeCourt Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan had observed that the menace of dog bites directly infringes the fundamental rights of citizens under Articles 19(1)(d) and 21 of the Constitution.

The Court had noted that over 25,000 dog bite cases were reported in Delhi in 2024, with over 3,000 in January 2025 alone, and that sterilisation rules had failed to control the problem over the past two

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice Surya Kant to shortly speak at the inaugural lecture series organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).

The lecture is titled “Justice for all- Legal Aid and Mediation: The collaborative role of Bar and the Bench”

#SupremeCourt #SCBA Sr. Adv. Vikas Singh (President, SCBA): Justice for all and mediation go hand in hand. It is only in the mediation process that there are no losers. In litigation there is one side which feels that it has not got justice. In mediation both sides feel like they have got justice. Justice for all is embedded in the concept of mediation.

Supreme Court hears a plea seeking to prevent the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from demolishing historical monuments and Sufi saints’ graves in Delhi’s Mehrauli.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan J Nagarathna: Why do you want to demolish it?

Counsel for DDA: It is a forest area.....we are against ancillary construction that come with Dargah.

J R Mahadevan: There is an express order there shall be no construction

Delhi High Court is hearing on behalf of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) seeking intervention in the copyright infringement suit filed by Asian News International (ANI) against Open AI. The matter is being heard by Justice Amit Bansal.

Supreme Court hears the Prakash Singh case concerning DGP appointments

Sr Adv Raju Ramachandran as the Amicus Curiae: There are 9 applications today and an amicus application on how should the court manage it. Should each such case come to the SC, I have suggested individual cases can be monitored by the High Courts Ramachandran: A Tamil Nadu officer has filed an application... He has been exonerated .. seeks appointment. There is another application by Prakash Singh himself who has proposed that CM, leader of opposition and the Chief justice of the High court should select instead of the role of UPSC. As an amicus i support it.

Supreme Court hears suo moto case on the struggles faced by cadets who suffer disabilities during military training.

Bench: Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan

#SupremeCourt #militarytraining #cadets Counsel: we have been advancing the cadets’ cause before the Delhi high court since the past 7 years. The prayers are broadbanding and disability compensation.

Court: in a suo moto petition the court speaks first. Allow us to speak.

Supreme Court hears a plea in connection with criminal defamation case against Delhi CM Atishi and former CM Arvind Kejriwal over remarks on alleged deletion of voters' names from electoral rolls in the national capital.

Bench: Justice MM Sundresh and Justice NK Singh Delhi High Court in September 2024 had rejected plea filed by AAP leaders seeking quashing of the case.

[Muzaffar Uruj Rabbani vs UoI]

Supreme Court hears appeal against Allahabad HC order upholding appointment of professor Naima Khatoon as the vice-chancellor (VC) of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: If this is the way Vice Chancellors are appointed, I shudder to think what will happen in future

CJI Gavai: Rather than prelude tell us your arguments.

CJI BR Gavai unfurls the national flag in Supreme Court of India to commemorate 79th Independence Day #IndependenceDayIndia #SupremeCourt
Independence Day celebrations in #SupremeCourt amid heavy rains

[WV Migrant Workers Welfare Board vs Union]

Adv Prashant Bhushan: Authorities are randomly picking up Bengali Muslims claiming them to be Bangladeshis and when it is verified it is seen they are Indians. Some were deported and then it was verified and then taken back.

Justice Kant: But they were owned by the state and state said they belong to the state.

Bhushan: Here Delhi police says documents are in Bangladeshi language. What is that? It is Bangla. So what ?

Justice Kant: suppose someone comes to Delhi... And has document in Bangla. Suppose now it has to be verified..

Bhushan: But how can they be detained. Let them verify.

#SupremeCourt Justice Joymalya Bagchi: on migrant labours isn't there a system in place to check the place of origin of such workers and the verify the same

Justice Kant: a nodal agency is needed to coordinate between state of origin and the state where they are earning livelihood.

Bhushan: But what they are doing is detaining the persons when being verified.. this is panic among bengali Muslims

Justice Bagchi: this is a serious issue of mass migration. Here the workers are from eastern part coming to North and work. The nodal agency can coordinate .

Bhushan: some are even being tortured in such detention centres. Even foreigners act does not give authority for this even if someone is termed a foreigner.

Supreme Court hears a plea filed by the Governor of Kerala, in his capacity as Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, challenging a High Court judgment that upheld the State govGovernor–State standoff

Bench: Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan Yesterday, Supreme Court said it would constitute a search committee to shortlist candidates for the post of Vice-Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and Digital University.

Supreme Court to shortly pronounce its judgment on a plea filed by the Karnataka government challenging the High Court order granting bail to Kannada film actor Darshan in the Renukaswamy murder case.
#Darshan #Renukaswamymurdercase #Bail #SupremeCourt A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan will pronounce the order.

Supreme Court to shortly resume hearing petitions raising objections to the SIR exercise ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar #BiharSIR2025 #BiharElections @ECISVEEP #SupremeCourt The petitioners and intervenors are expected to wrap up submissions this morning. Election commission of india to begin it's reply today.
@ECISVEEP #SupremeCourt

[Delhi NCR Stray dog case hearing]

A 3-judge bench of the #SupremeCourt to hear case shortly

The bench is slated to hear petitions seeking stay of the suo motu order passed by Justice JB Pardiwala led bench directing no free roaming strays in NCR

#straydogs Three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprises of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria.

The matter is titled In Re: “City Hounded by Strays, Kids Pay Price” #straydogs

#SupremeCourt order on #straydogs is out. “City hounded by strays, kids pay price.” Here are the 10 crucial takeaways from the judgment

1. Dog pay price, kids pay price
The court called the situation extremely grim. There were more than 37 lakh reported dog bites in 2024, including 25,201 in Delhi alone. Infants, young children, the elderly and the homeless are the most vulnerable. Rabies means certain death if not treated in time.

#straydogsdelhi 2. Immediate pickup from NCR localities
Delhi, MCD, NDMC, NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad have been told to start picking up stray dogs from all areas, starting with the most vulnerable localities. If needed, a dedicated force should be created. Any resistance will attract the strictest action.

3. No release back on streets
Once a dog is captured, it must be kept in a shelter or pound. It cannot be sent back to the locality. The court has warned that if even one dog is released back, stern action will follow.

Delhi High Court refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) concerning illegal construction in a village on the border of Delhi and Haryana. Counsel for petitioner - In the area of the village, they are running cafes, banquet halls. The entire area is affected. The road is used for commute. A marriage procession causes traffic.

Supreme Court hears plea by the Governor of Kerala in his capacity as Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, challenging a High Court ruling which upheld the State government’s authority to recommend temporary VCs.

Bench: Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan A fresh application has been filed by the State of Kerala challenging an earlier notification by the Governor (Chancellor) that had re-appointed Dr. K Sivaprasad as a temporary VC of the University.

Delhi Government tells the Delhi High Court that nine jail officials have been suspended over allegations of inmates and jail authorities running an extortion racket at Tihar Jail. The Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela today heard the matter.