Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Varanasi civil court to desist from hearing the Gyanvapi mosque survey case for a day, as it deferred the hearing to Friday in view of a request made by the lawyer for the Hindu petitioners. A…
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The Union government has defended in the Supreme Court a provision in succession law that puts the husband’s family first in the line of inheritance, before the woman’s own parents, if she died without executing a will. Submitting its…
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The Supreme Court bench, which will hear the case relating to the Gyanvapi Mosque survey, has an interesting composition. Both the judges of the bench have had an association with a similar dispute involving Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. One of…
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Wednesday, May 11, told the Supreme Court, which is hearing the sedition law case, that the Centre has prepared a draft for the reconsideration of the law. The draft states that an FIR will be registered…
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The technical committee constituted by Supreme Court in the Pegasus spyware case has asked all state Director Generals of Police (DGPs) to inform it whether they have procured the software from Israel’s NSO Group. It is not known whether…
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The issue of the demolition of allegedly illegal areas of northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, the area which witnessed communal violence on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, will be heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday, a day after the apex…
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The Supreme Court on Monday canceled the bail of Ashish Mishra, accused in the killings reported in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur last year. He has also been asked by the top court to surrender within a week. Ashish Mishra is the son of union…
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After clashes were reported in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking “an impartial probe” by a panel headed by a sitting judge. Several people were left injured as the area in the…
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The Supreme Court will deliver on Monday its verdict on a plea challenging bail to Ashish Mishra, son of union minister Ajay Mishra Teni, who is a murder accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV…
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The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a petition seeking the release of locked biometrics of over 830,000 people in Assam, whose fingerprints were collected for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Rajya Sabha Member of…
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