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Jul 16 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
#SupremeCourt hears plea by BRS President and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao challenging the Telangana High Court's decision to dismiss his petition against a commission formed by the state government
Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi: Plain case of political vendetta. Every time the government changes there is a case against the former chief minister
CJI DY Chandrachud: we will clarify that by calling it judicial enquiry they cannot take it outside the scope of the commission @TSwithKCR
Jul 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING
Supreme Court DISMISSES plea by Deputy CM of Karantaka DK Shivakumar to quash CBI's disproportionate assets case against him under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
A bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma heard the matter.
Trivedi J: How High Can stay the sanction order granted by government? This is unheard of.
Senior Adv Rohatagi (for Shivakumar): That is withdrawn already.
Trivedi J to State: That is different thing but how High Court can grant such order?
Jun 26 • 118 tweets • 12 min read
[Excise policy case]
CBI to produce Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal before Rouse Avenue Court and seek his custody.
Hearing likely to start at 10AM.
#ArvindKejriwal @CBIHeadquarters @AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal
Kejriwal to be produced before Special Judge (PC Act) Amitabh Rawat shortly.
Jun 25 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Delhi High Court to shortly pronounce its verdict on ED's plea seeking stay on bail granted to Arvind Kejriwal.
Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain will pronounce order at 2:30 PM.
#DelhiHighCourt #ArvindKejriwal @dir_ed @AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal #Bail
Kejriwal was granted bail by the trial court on Thursday (June 20). The High Court put an interim stay on his bail the next day, after ED challenged the order.
On the same day, Justice Jain reserved his verdict on ED's stay application.
Delhi High Court orders removal of tweets by Congress leaders Ragini Nayak, Jairam Ramesh, and Pawan Khera alleging that journalist Rajat Sharma abused Nayak on live-television.
@RajatSharmaLive @NayakRagini @Jairam_Ramesh @Pawankhera
High Court holds that Congress leaders over-sensationalised the incident and did not remain truthful.
Jun 13 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Supreme Court to hear batch of pleas seeking cancellation of NEET 2024
#SupremeCourt #NEET #NEET_परीक्षा #NeetUG24Controversy #neetexam2024 #neet #NEET_परीक्षा #NEET_परीक्षा_परिणाम
Matter before a Vacation Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.
Jun 1 • 81 tweets • 8 min read
[Excise policy case]
Delhi court to hear shortly Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking interim bail for a week on medical grounds.
Judge Kaveri Baweja is scheduled to hear the matter at 2PM.
#ArvindKejriwal @ArvindKejriwal @AamAadmiParty #Bail
Kejriwal was released on interim bail by the Supreme Court. He has to surrender by tomorrow.
Earlier, the Supreme Court Registry had refused to extend his interim bail.
May 24 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
#SupremeCourt to hear plea by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) seeking disclosure of final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling stations including the number of votes polled in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 within 48 hours of the polling #lokbsabaelctions2024 @ECISVEEP
Election Commission of India (ECI) had told the Supreme Court that there is no legal right that can be claimed towards publishing final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling stations. #lokbsabaelctions2024 @ECISVEEP #SupremeCourt
#SupremeCourt to resume hearing plea by jailed Delhi Chief Minister (CM) #ArvindKejriwal challenging his arrest in the money laundering case registered against him by the ED in connection with Delhi excise policy
@AamAadmiParty @dir_ed
ASG SV Raju begins
SG Tushar Mehta: I am on maintainability of this.. This court cannot go into this..
Justice Datta: ok address on maintainability
Justice Khanna: they are saying section 19 requirement is not satisfied and thus the remand order could not have been passed at all.
@AamAadmiParty
@dir_ed #arvindkejriwalarrest
May 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Supreme Court to hear plea by former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren challenging the decision of Jharkhand HC rejecting the petition challenging his arrest in money laundering case
#SupremeCourt
@JmmJharkhand
@HemantSorenJMM
@dir_ed
Justice Khanna: Mr Sibal tell me are you in possession of the land
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal: i have never been.. it is nothing to do with the land., if they say forcible possession.. it is not even a scheduled offence..
SC: Everybody including person in actual occupation says you are in possession
Sibal : the original one had a lease executed in 2015.. oral statements everyone will say
"Someone has to apply their mind. This has to stop before it becomes 6,000 tonnes of excess untreated solid waste by 2027. Tell us which industries and constructions have to be stopped?"
Supreme Court while hearing plea where it had earlier flagged untreated solid waste in Delhi
#SupremeCourtOfIndia
Sr Adv Menaka Guruswamy appearing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi said they would increase capacity within 3 years, while 4 plants are stuck in litigation
Justice Oka: This is the capital city. What the whole word will say?! Tell us what you will do for the situation now, answer this simple question, you are not. We will summon the highest corporation officer. Nobody is bothered. Union should hold a meeting to ensure this 3000 is not increased further and tackled.
#SupremeCourtOfIndia
May 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#Breaking
Delhi court charges BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh with sexual harassment of five women wrestlers.
Singh also charged with the offence of outraging modesty of woman.
#BrijBhushan #WrestlersSexualHarassment @BJP4India
ACMM Priyanka Rajpoot also charged Singh with the offence of criminal intimidation with respect to two wrestlers.
May 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#SupremeCourt hears the case case concerning demolitions in Akbar Nagar. About 15,000 residents of Akbar Nagar are set to be affected by demolitions planned on the Kukrail riverbank
Justice Sanjiv Khanna: You are getting what encroachers get. You are getting alternate accommodation
Adv: But it is so far
Justice Khanna: This location which you encroached was also earlier far and then it became the centre of city
Adv: State was charging taxes etc as well
Justice Khanna: So, that is for the services provided.. but that does not mean they have given ownership of the land
Adv MR Shamshad: report says it is not a river but a nullah.. but after 40 years of my existence there.. it is declared as a floodplain
Justice Khanna: but it is pending for a long time
May 7 • 65 tweets • 10 min read
[West Bengal Teacher Recruitment Scam]
CJI DY Chandrachud led bench to shortly hear appeal by West Bengal government challenging Calcutta HC's recent decision to cancel about 24,000 appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff made in 2016 by the West Bengal School Service Commission @MamataOfficial
Sr Adv Rakesh Dwivedi: I and Mr (Neeraj Kishan) Kaul are for West Bengal.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud: Mr Kaul why are you standing?
Kaul: I have been asked to my lords. My doctor ...
CJI: It is really advised you know. As judges we keep sitting but ..
Dwivedi: Younger members of the bar must also mix sitting and standing before being told by doctors later.
#SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfIndia
May 7 • 52 tweets • 12 min read
[ARVIND KEJRIWAL ED CASE]
#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an excise policy-linked money laundering case
#ArvindKejriwal #ArvindKejriwalArrested @AamAadmiParty @dir_ed
#SupremeCourt had earlier indicated that it may consider granting #ArvindKejriwal interim bail in the view of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 @AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal #ArvindKejriwalarrested
Apr 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Supreme Court hears a petition urging for the postponement of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Chartered Accountancy (CA) exams
Sr Adv Madhavi Divan: There are students from Kalahandi and other rural areas who will not be able to appear for the exams on 8th and 14th May since elections are on. It can be on 7th and 13th may.
#caexams #SupremeCourt #LokSabhaElections2024
Divan: We are not asking for a bulk postponement. If there is a bunch of candidates from Rajouri. Now they can only come by public transport and with security issues it is impossible to travel and public buses also withdrawn during elections. Hostels are also being asked to vacate. One we are asking postpone and if not possible then atleast allow an out option so that one does not suffer if they are not appearing on May 8 and May 14
#caexams
Apr 28 • 44 tweets • 13 min read
Former High Court judge and Senior Advocate Dr S Muralidhar to shortly deliver a lecture as part of Rakesh Endowment Lecture series for Justice and Equity.
The theme is 'Guilty Till Proved innocent: Dark Areas of Criminal Jurisprudence'
G Sundar, Director of Roja Muthiah Research Library, delivers the welcome address.
Apr 26 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
#Breaking
Delhi High Court castigates Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government and AAP led MCD for its failure to provide textbooks to over 2 lakh students.
Court says Delhi govt is only interested in appropriation of power and by not resigning, despite his arrest, Arvind Kejriwal has put personal interest over the national interest.
#DelhiHighCourt @AamAadmiParty
@ArvindKejriwal
A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora made these scathing remarks while dealing with a PIL raising the issue that the students studying in MCD schools have not received textbooks and are studying in tin sheds because of the logjam in the civic body.
Apr 24 • 29 tweets • 4 min read
#KarnatakaHC hears plea challenging 2023 election of Karnataka CM @siddaramaiah
Track thread for updates
Petitioner says Congress party manifesto amounted to bribery. Siddaramiah's lawyer recently accused petitioner of "copy-pasting" plea.
Read more: tinyurl.com/bdzdnt6k
Senior Advocate Pramila Nesargi makes submissions for petitioner: Written statement has been filed. The facts are admitted. The contentions raised under ... are not there in the written statement.
#KarnatakaHighCourt #Siddaramaiah
Apr 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
[Late Evening Hearing : Urgent Medical Termination case]
#SupremeCourt bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud assembles
CJI: The court master gave us the plea in chamber. Where is the girl now?
Adv: she is 28 weeks pregnant and in Mumbai
CJI: if in Delhi we would have asked AIIMS
CJI: Ms Bhati she is 14 years old and a victim of rape
She is nearing 28 weeks of pregnancy
Apr 19 • 55 tweets • 6 min read
Is Arvind Kejriwal deliberately eating mangoes and sweets to spike sugar level and create ground for bail?
Delhi court to examine Tihar Jail report shortly after ED's allegations.
Hearing to start at 2PM.
#ArvindKejriwal @AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal
Yesterday, ED's Special Counsel Zoheb Hossain had informed the Rouse Avenue Court that the details came to be known after the agency wrote to Tihar jail and sought information about Kejriwal's diet and the medicines being taken by him.