Karnataka HC hears suo motu PIL case registered in connection with June 4 Chinnaswamy Stadium Stampede which left 11 people dead and injured over 50 people. Track thread for updates. Matter before Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Joshi. Advocate General Shashi Kiran Shetty says judicial commission has now submitted its report covering most of the issues raised, which has to be placed before legislature which is slated to sit in August.

Delhi High Court to decide on October 30 the petitions filed by Delhi riots accused Sharjeel Imam challenging trial court order framing charges and quashing of Delhi Police chargesheet in connection with the December 2019 Jamia University violence during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Justice Sanjeev Narula briefly heard the matter today.

Karnataka HC Division Bench hears appeal challenging single judge order directing National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru to provide 0.5% reservation for transgender students in admissions until it comes out with its own transgender reservation policy. Justices Anu Sivaraman and Rajesh Rai K are hearing the matter. Senior Advocate KG Raghavan appears for NLSIU, he says that the petitioner who whose plea the single judge order was passed was offered admission but he did not join and "missed the bus."

Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of a media report highlighting deaths caused by rabies due to stray dog attacks on children and the elderly.

Bench: Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan

#SupremeCourt Justice Pardiwala: This is a highly disturbing news report titled “City hounded by strays and kids pay price”. It contains extremely troubling details.

[Justice Yashwant Varma hearing in Supreme Court]

Supreme Court will today hear the plea filed by tainted Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house committee report indicting him over the recovery of a large sum of unaccounted cash at his official residence in Delhi

#SupremeCourt #JusticeYashwantVarma A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih to hear the case today #SupremeCourt

Supreme Court to shortly hear the case pertaining to release of #UdaipurFiles movie

#SupremeCourt The Central government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the movie Udaipur Files is about a particular crime and not against any particular community

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A Battle for Alimony in the #SupremeCourt

Chief Justice B.R:
What is your demand (for alimony)?

Lady: Just the house in Mumbai, free of all costs. And ₹12 crore as maintenance.

CJI Gavai: But that house is in Kalpataru… one of the good builders. You’re an IT person. You’ve done your MBA. You’re in demand ..Bengaluru, Hyderabad... Why don’t you work also?”

“You had a marriage for just 18 months,” the CJI continues, “and now you also want a BMW?” 18 months marriage and you want one crore for each month!

Lady: But he is very rich. And he sought the nullity of the marriage claiming I’m schizophrenic.

Sr Adv Madhavi Divan for the Husband: She has to work also. Everything cannot be demanded like this.

Lady: Do I look Schizophrenic My Lords

CJI Gavai: File income tax returns. But understand you cannot claim the properties of his father also.

Case again at 2 pm. Bench reassembled

CJI Gavai: Where are the returns?

Lady: Yes it is here

Sr Adv Divan: Please give the entire copy .. see 2015-16 there is high income because he was employed then

Plea in #SupremeCourt seeks FIR against sitting Delhi HC judges

Adv: This plea seeks registration of FIR against sitting HC judges. The issue is when I am the topper of the exam, but all judges.. ideally case should be heard by court 1..

Justice Surya Kant: Are you wanting to argue or you want to do bench hunting? We understand this kind of publicity stunts. Which college you did graduate and MBA?

Adv: engineering from DU and MBA From IIM Kozhikode

Justice Kant: still you make such scandalous allegations Adv: If this can be treated it as a civil petition.. then this court can..

Justice Kant: just because there are illegal, perverse petitions being filed . You cannot ask FIRs against judges. How many cases have you done

Adv: I did law for this case only

Justice Kant: that's what I thought. Tell me under which law judges are liable to be prosecuted for giving judgments against you.

"We are constantly monitored by social media" - Solicitor General Tushar Mehta is making arguments opposing X Corp's plea in Karnataka HC challenging Central govt. 'Sahyog' portal to issue content blocking orders.

Matter before Justice Nagaprasanna. Track Thread for updates SG Mehta: We are constantly being monitored by social media sites, we are products for them ... There is a kind of profiling for every individual.

Supreme Court to shortly hear the plea where it had granted interim bail to Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Professor of Ashoka University, in connection with his Facebook post on Operation Sindoor #SupremeCourt #OperationSindoor Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: A status report has been filed. Please see what was said earlier.. that probe shall be confined to the two FIRs only.

Supreme Court to shortly hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s June 24, 2025 order for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar months before the state goes to assembly polls #BiharElections2025 #SupremeCourtofIndia @ECISVEEP Some of the petitions are by TMC MP Mahua Moitra, former AAP co-founder Yogendra Yadav, Manoj RJD MP Manoj Jha, Association for Democratic Reforms among others @MahuaMoitra @_YogendraYadav @RJDforIndia @pbhushan1

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S Oka to shortly deliver the Late Justice H.R. Khanna Memorial Lecture on "Independence of Judiciary" organised by the Goa HC Bar Association

#SupremeCourt Justice AS Oka: I must clarify that when it comes to independence of judiciary, irrespective of the party in power, irrespective of the fact whether there is emergency or not, there is always a threat to independence of judiciary. And therefore, the members of the judicial fraternity, namely the judges and members of the bar have to be always alert and ensure that independence remains

Delhi High Court to hear the defamation suit filed by Asian News International (ANI) against YouTuber Mohak Mangal over a video accusing ANI of extortion and blackmail after copyright strikes. Comedian Kunal Kamra and AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair are also added as defendants for sharing the video on their X handles.

Ceremonial bench proceedings underway to mark the last working day of Justice Abhay S Oka

AG R Venkataramani: All of us got equal treatment in your court. I have cherished the questioning moments. By working so tirelessly you have set bad standards for your law clerks as some even forgot to go home.. SG Tushar Mehta: Despite such an irreparable loss you treated duty as a judge first. You could have addressed virtually also. This shows duty. Please spare more time for family. You have often been much more prepared than lawyers. Your lordships services are required and please do not close any door
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Delhi High Court to shortly hear a defamation suit filed by Newslaundry Executive Editor Manisha Pande and eight other women journalists against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for referring to them as ‘prostitutes’ and their workplace as a ‘brothel.’ Advocate Bani Dixit appears for Newslaundry journalists. She says "Plaintiffs are journalists from all walks of life. These are defamatory articles outside the bounds of criticism. These are all working women."

[Arrest of Ashoka University Professor]

Supreme Court to shortly hear a petition challenging the arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor at Ashoka University, Sonipat, over certain remarks on Operation Sindoor

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#OperationSindoor
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#SupremeCourtofIndia Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal to argue for Mahmudabad

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[Waqf Hearing in Supreme Court]

Supreme Court bench led by CJI B.R. Gavai would hear the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 on May 20, for the limited purpose of interim relief

#SupremeCourt #WaqfAct The bench will consider whether interim relief of stay is required on three issues - waqf by user, nomination of non-Muslims to the Wakf Council and State Waqf Boards and identification of government land under waqf #WaqfAct

Supreme Court hears a plea stating Rohingya refugees were thrown into the sea

Justice Surya Kant: Everytime you have a new story. Now how is this beautifully crafted coming from

Sr Adv Colin Gonsalves: this is the 38 persons deported and then they were taken to Andamans and then were put in the sea with life jackets

Justice Kant: who was clicking the videos and photos? How did he come back ? What is the material on record ? We did not see anything at night. Justice Kant: when the country is going through such a tough time you bring up these fanciful petitions.

Gonsalves: Then there was call made from Myanmar

SC: We know how these calls are made of Jharkhand etc and numbers of Myanmar, Dubai etc are shown

Gonsalves: Govt can probe. One of the deported called from Myanmar.

#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 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.

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 #SupremeCourt 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.

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 do 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