The supreme court on Friday imposed costs on the petitioner who challenged the appointment of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. The PIL was filed before the court claiming that the oath that was administered to Justice Upadhyaya was defective. A bench of Chief Justice Read more
The Supreme Court dismissed a PIL on Friday, October 13, which challenged the Darwinian theory of evolution and Einstein’s equation (E=MC²). The bench, comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia, stated in their order that the petitioner wanted to prove the Darwinian theory of evolution and Einstein’s equation wrong Read more
On Tuesday, a number of Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be heading towards dismissing UBS Group’s attempt of making the case more challenging for financial whistleblowers to establish claims of retaliation. Trevor Murray, a former UBS bond strategist, has appealed for his wrongful termination over refusing to produce false research findings Read more
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea that sought the recognition of Mathura’s Shahi Idgah Mosque site as Krishna Janam Bhoomi. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Ashutosh Srivastava, passed this order after reserving its verdict on the matter last month. A Read more
The petition regarding the minority status of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi, filed in the Supreme Court, has been withdrawn. The Delhi High Court had deferred the hearing of the plea due to a similar legal issue pending before a 7-judge bench of the Supreme Court Read more
India has launched’ Operation Ajay’ to deliver its citizens who are stranded in war- torn Israel. The operation aims to bring back these citizens safely to their motherland. India’s External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, said on Wednesday that’ Operation Ajay’ has been launched to grease the return of Indians from Read more
AAP leaders have suffered a setback in the criminal defamation case filed by Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree. The Gujarat High Court on Thursday refused to stay the summons issued by a magistrate court to Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh. The hearing in Read more
The Supreme Court faced a challenging issue of a woman’s plea to terminate her pregnancy in the 26th week of her being pregnant, concerning ways to strike a balance between rights of the unborn and a woman’s authority over her own body. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud made a statement that the rights of the unborn Read more
In the latest judgement presided over by Justice A. Guneshwar Sharma and Acting Chief Justice MV Muralidaran, the Manipur High Court passed an order stating that the legal rights of an unmarried single mother were recently affirmed signifying a major achievement for those striving for validation of their marital status. In this particular case, Read more
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has made an announcement on Tuesday that it has initiated a criminal probe on the Ontario government’s aim to partly develop the “Greenbelt,” a sizable portion of land under protection in the south province. Though Canada’s federal police department (RCMP) refused to comment on the particulars of the investigation, Read more
