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Apr 16 35 tweets 13 min read
#Bombay High Court is set to shortly hear stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra's plea seeking quashing of the FIR filed over his 'Gaddar' remark allegedly directed at Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde.
@kunalkamra88 Image A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal and Justice S M Modak had earlier adjourned the matter to today, April 16, after taking note of the interim protection granted to Kamra by the Madras High Court.
Apr 8 24 tweets 6 min read
Supreme Court to deliver judgment on petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government against Governor RN Ravi's refusal to grant assent to several bills passed by the State Legislative Assembly, including those concerning the appointment of Vice Chancellors to State Universities #SupremeCourtImage The State had moved the Court seeking directions to the Governor/ President to decide or give assent to bills passed by the State legislature in a time-bound manner.

The State government has argued that the Governor, by indefinitely withholding assent on these bills, was holding the entire State to ransom. In such a situation, the Court must intervene, the Tamil Nadu government argued.Image
Apr 1 20 tweets 5 min read
Supreme Court hears the case where it took objection to the absence of an advocate-on-record (AoR) in court during the hearing of a case filed through him

Justice Bela Trivedi: You could not have filed the SLP. If you don't get it you should not be a AoR. I will not leave the case just like that. You took undue advantage of some thing

AoR: I take responsibility

SC: you have no option but to take this. Apology will not doImage Justice Trivedi: judgment had come and you are challenging it. Should you not read the papers. Where is the scope for any explanation.

AoR: my learned friend

SC: don't say learned fried. We are agitated and pained. Day in and day out we are seeing this. It is you and only you. For surrendering you say condone delay. Then in condonation application.. what kind of language is being used
Mar 23 7 tweets 2 min read
Scenes from the Delhi High Court after the declaration of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) election results. Senior Advocate N Hariharan has been elected as the President of DHCBA. Senior Advocate N Hariharan secured 2,967 votes and won by a margin of 87 votes. Senior Advocate Kirti Uppal came second with 2,880 votes.

The other two candidates - Senior Advocate Abhijat garnered 1,429 votes and Senior Advocate Vivek Sood garnered 339 votes.
Mar 19 7 tweets 1 min read
#Breaking Bombay High Court has overturned a Family Court decision that denied the request to waive the statutory cooling-off period for the divorce of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma under the Hindu Marriage Act.
#BombayHC #YuzvendraChahal Image A bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar has also directed the family court to decide the divorce petition by tomorrow considering Chahal's participation in the upcoming IPL
Mar 3 6 tweets 2 min read
[Can visually impaired become judges ? ]

#SupremeCourt to shortly deliver judgment on this significant issue

The court to hand down verdict in the suo motu case concerning visually impaired in judicial services Image The genesis of the case lies in the rules governing judicial appointments in Madhya Pradesh which contained discriminatory language that prevented blind individuals from becoming judges.

This exclusion was challenged after a mother, whose visually impaired child aspired to the judiciary, wrote to the court, leading to a court-initiated public interest litigation.
Mar 3 19 tweets 5 min read
#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea by Ranveer Allahabadia and Ashish Chanchlani in the case over remarks made in #indiasgotlatent show

Allahabadia and Chanchlani were protected from arrest in the last hearing
@BeerBicepsGuy Image Dr Abhinav Chandrachud: We have moved an application. We are seeking lifting of one part of the order which refrained him from airing his shows etc. He has no sense of humour at all.. but he has 280 employees and it is his livelihood. It can be ordered that let no profane words be uttered.
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 Image 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 notImage 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 helpImage 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 Image 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 Image
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.Image 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 Image 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. Image 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 Image 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

#SupremeCourtImage 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 matterImage 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)Image 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? Image 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 Image 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 Image A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice PB Varale is hearing the plea Image