Attorney General for India R Venkataramani to shortly make submissions before Supreme Court on the case challenging the validity of the Tribunal Reforms law #SupremeCourt AG addresses individual applications first. CESTAT, ITAT etc

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Inaugural Session of National Conference on 'Strengthening Legal Aid Delivery Mechanisms' and Celebration of 'Legal Services Day'
#SupremeCourt @PMOIndia CJI BR Gavai, CJI Designate Justice Surya Kant, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal present on dias @arjunrammeghwal #SupremeCourt @PMOIndia

Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath to shortly deliver the AK Sen memorial lecture, 2025. Justice Nath: I am dumbfounded whether or not to deliver this memorial lecture, because after hearing all the interesting anecdotes and episodes and about the life of Mr. Sen, of which I have neither been associated, acquainted, or known, like Mr. Bagchi is from Calcutta, Dr. Singhvi remembers back to his father's time with Mr. Sen, Mr. Jayanta Mitra also has so many. If they could have continued, I would have enjoyed more. But since I have been assigned this job of delivering the lecture, I think now the boring part starts. All of you will have to suffer me and listen to this lecture, which is a scripted one…. I don't have anecdotes to narrate. If I could be excused, I would be very happy and request all the panelists to continue with some more. And I would say that my lecture is delivered….Reasons to follow and we can go ahead.

Madras Bar Association case challenging the validity of the Tribunal Reforms Act

Senior Advocate Arvind Datar to make submissions today

CJI BR Gavai: Let us see if Attorney General appears at 2 pm. He had said he will

#SupremeCourt Sr Adv Arvind Datar: This case started 34 years ago in 1991 so as to say.

CJI: AG attempted to make submissions on the merits of the provisions.

Datar: 50 years eligibility, 4 years tenure and search cum selection committee... These are the three areas..now for 50 years.... It is about giving a chance..

CJI: see I became a judge at 42, maybe I did not have adequate experience at that time

Datar: I don't want to commit contempt

Justice Vinod Chandran: order of a 50 year old tribunal judge will be dealt by a 45 year old High Court judge !

Stray dogs case: Supreme Court to continue monitoring compliance of Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 in various states.

Chief Secretaries of all states except Delhi, Telangana, and West Bengal to appear before the Court today with compliance affidavits for their respective states.

Bench: Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria All Chief Secretaries present in Court.

Sr. Adv. AM Singhvi: your lordships may limit entry only for this case. It’s really difficult to come in.

Justice Nath: I had suggested an auditorium…. Who appears for Andhra Pradesh? What’s your explanation? Why was no affidavit filed on the previous date?

CS Andhra Pradesh inaudible.

The Court reviews affidavits.

Supreme Court hears plea pertaining to appointment of information commissioners.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi Adv Prashant Bhushan: this is regarding appointment to information commissions. It has been 10 months from the last order. There are so many orders asking to appoint and the pendency is just skyrocketing. The RTI is being destroyed by not appointing information commissioners.

Supreme Court to shortly hear the issue concerning stray dogs and the Pan India policy on Animal Birth control rules implementation #SupremeCourt Sr Adv Sidharth Luthra: One matter has come from High court. All matters are here

Justice Vikram Nath: we do not have compliance affidavit by any of the states.

Adv: MCD (Delhi) has filed it, Telangana, West Bengal.. also

Luthra: We have not been supplied

Delhi High Court heard the submissions of intervenor Broadband India Forum in the copyright suit filed by ANI against OpenAI. Senior Advocate Arvind Datar is appearing for Broadband India Forum.

The matter is being heard by Justice Amit Bansal.

Delhi High Court is hearing the suit filed by news agency Asian News International (ANI) concerning copyright, trademark infringement suit against digital content creator and YouTuber Mohak Mangal. Mangal has filed a fresh application seeking reinstatement of ten videos taken down by YouTube due to copyright strike by ANI.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gives an undertaking before Delhi High Court to formulate final guidelines for disabled friendly accessibility features on OTT platforms. The matter was listed before Justice Sachin Datta.

"Shoe throwing incident" mentioned before Justice Surya Kant led bench

SCBA President Vikas Singh: This shoe throwing incident cannot go unnoticed like this. This person has no remorse. I have sought consent from attorney general and the criminal contempt be listed tomorrow. Social media has gone berserk

SG Tushar Mehta: consent has been given...It is the institutional integrity at stake.

Justice Surya Kant: We are all for free speech. Problem is how to regulate.

SG: The opportunity this institution missed taking and some action was needed. Justice Kant: CJI has shown magnanimity and it shows that Institution is not affected as such

SG: The way this social media is being uncontrollably used..some are making a glory out of this.. and some are speaking of his courage etc. This is about institution..it cannot go on.

SC: We will treat this matter uninfluenced by anything else.

Delhi High Court seeks response of the Central Government in the petition filed by All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) challenging a notification issued by Ministry of Heavy Industries discontinuing the GST concession on certain vehicles given to persons with disabilities. The matter was listed before the Bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela.

“What are your officers doing?”

Delhi High Court pulls up DDA over delays in handing over possession of land in Shahdara for the construction of residential buildings for judicial officers; Court says it is not impressed with “excuse” that Rs 50k was left to be paid. Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela heard the matter.

Court: Why has Shahdara land not been given? Payment was given in July.

Lawyer: There was some discrepancy, some balance, small amount of 50k.

Delhi High Court permits an application filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Senior Advocate Gaurav Bhatia seeking modification of the order dated September 25 wherein the Court issued summons in his defamation suit. Justice Amit Bansal heard the matter.

Supreme Court hears a plea challenging the grant of defence land within cantonments to private individuals and alleging encroachment of thousands of acres of defence property across the country.

Bench: Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi Adv. Prashant Bhushan: After several orders of the Court, last time the Attorney General said that they had appointed a committee. I have gone through the interim report, and it virtually says nothing.

Delhi High Court is hearing a suit filed by Bollywood actor Hritik Roshan seeking protection of his personality rights. The matter is listed before Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora.

Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi is appearing for Roshan. He is telling the Court about certain Apps which are using his picture.

Delhi High Court grants last and final opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate to argue its case against the bail order passed in June 2024 by Rouse Avenue District Courts to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. The matter was listed before the bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja.

[Tamil Nadu vs ED] @dir_ed

Earlier #SupremeCourt had stayed the investigation against the state-run Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) and critiqued the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 'crossing all limits'

SR Adv Kapil Sibal: This is the TASMAC issue. How can a govt company be raided? We are the ones who directed them to be filed. The managing directors are raided. Once FIR is there..ECIR is there.. this matter can be closed in no time at all. We have to decide what to do and what not.. what is ED doing? ED has seized computers etc. this is shocking

ASG SV Raju: There are 47 FIRs there is large scale irregularities.. we are on predicate offences and are on scheduled offences..for all these officers there is a conduit of how money is flowing. ASG Raju: this is large scale corruption and what happens to the federal structure?

CJI Gavai: Can't the local police look into this ?

Supreme Court to hear plea of Sahara India Commercial Corporation Ltd (SICCL) seeking its nod to sell various properties, including Amby Valley in Maharashtra and Shahara Saher in Lucknow, to Adani Properties Private Limited #SupremeCourt #Sahara #Adani Bench: CJI BR Gavai, Justices Surya Kant, and MM Sundresh

National Annual Stakeholders Consultation on:
Safeguarding the Girl Child Towards a Safer and Enabling Environment for Her in India

Justice B.V. Nagarathna:
Today, a young girl in India can be said to be a truly equal citizen only when she can freely aspire to do anything that her male counterpart does, and receive the same quality of support and resources to do so. No barriers specific to her because of her gender should exist.

Put differently, the odds of her being born at all, having access to the right nutrition, care, education, and material resources, a secure and safe environment, developing a distinct sense of self, and being able to achieve whatever she sets her mind to, have to be equivalent to that of a boy child born in this country. She should not merely survive, but actively thrive. Justice Nagarathna: The first barrier that a girl child in India faces is being born at all. Will she be born at all? It is an altogether unfortunate trope that most of us are familiar with. When a family eagerly awaits news of the birth of a child, some are disappointed at best and even dismayed at worst upon hearing that the child is a girl.

The child sex ratio of 0 to 6 years in India has only seen marginal improvement, going up from 914 girls for every 1000 boys in the 2011 Census to 929 girls for every 1000 boys in the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5). There are also recent concerning reports of worsening sex ratios caused by likely female infanticide or foeticide in certain States. Many of the States, however, have seen improvements in their sex ratios.

#SupremeCourt hears the fire crackers issue concerning Delhi air pollution

CJI BR Gavai: Whether the pollution in 2018 (AQI) was much less as compared to 2024?

Respondent: If you see CAQM Data..

SG Tushar Mehta: In Covid period it came down ..else it remained the same. There is nothing on record to show that it is because of the firecrackers. I urge that there is no restriction for firecrackers. If there is a two hour timing .... One hour goes in persuading parents only ! We all were children! Sr Adv K Parameshwar: Half of haryana is under the ban without even being heard. That is how NCR expanse is..