NEW DELHI: The ten-day long educative debate before a five-judge Supreme Court bench on the Presidential Reference seeking the apex court’s opinion on the judiciary’s power to fix timelines for the President and governors as well as grant ‘deemed assent’ to pending bills was a serious affair but was not shorn of humour.When a bench…
Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at Jerusalem terror shooting | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Israel News “A pursuit and encirclement of the villages from which the terrorists came is underway,” Netanyahu said at the scene of the attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at scene of terror attack in Jerusalem on Monday, Sepetmber 8. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBEG/FLASH90)…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of a media report on custodial deaths in police stations and decided to examine implementation of its earlier order on installing CCTV cameras in police stations.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta referred to a report in Dainik Bhaskar on custodial deaths in…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal on Wednesday warned that vesting governors with discretion to decide the fate of bills would jeopardise states’ legislative functions, while Supreme Court-prescribed timeline for governors and the President would expedite transforming people’s will into laws. This would not amount to amending the Constitution, it told the court. The TMC govt, through…
NEW DELHI: Is it possible for a person to shoot themselves in the chest with a rifle? Supreme Court raised this question while wondering whether the death of a man, who died in similar circumstances, was really a case of suicide as alleged by the prosecution or one of murder.Hearing a plea against anticipatory bail…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that the motor vehicles tax, which is imposed for use of public places and infrastructure, cannot be levied if a vehicle does not use the same.“Motor vehicle tax is compensatory in nature. It has a direct nexus with the end use. The rationale for levy of motor vehicle tax…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday granted four-week protection from arrest to journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma but did not accept his plea for quashing the FIR registered by Assam police over his video accusing state govt of ‘communal politics’ and questioning its allotment of 3,000 acre of tribal land to a private entity. A…
NEW DELHI: Can a governor keep a bill passed by the assembly pending indefinitely to frustrate the will of the people exercised through the legislature? Supreme Court raised the question – its refrain through the hearings on presidential reference over the court’s decision to fix timelines for governors and the President to take calls on…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma four weeks’ protection from arrest in connection with an FIR filed by Assam Police. The case relates to a video Sharma uploaded on 8 August, criticising the Assam government’s alleged communal politics and questioning the allotment of 3,000 bighas of land in…
Harish Salve (File photo); Supreme court building New Delhi: Maharashtra, through senior lawyer Harish Salve, told Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Constitution empowers a governor or the President, not an assembly, to have the final say on a state bill. It made a five-judge bench led by CJI B R Gavai ask: “Is this…
