In a blow to the government, the Supreme Court on Friday pointed out a “material legal flaw” in the order of defence minister A.K. Antony on the statutory complaint of the Army Chief, Gen. V.K. Singh, on his date-of-birth controversy and gave the government the option to withdraw the order or see it struck down.

Describing the issue raised by the Narendra Modi government in a petition on the appointment of the Gujarat lokayukta by the governor without consulting his council of ministers as “very important”, the Supreme Court on Friday admitted the state’s appeal brushing aside the formality of preliminary hearing.

In some reprieve to dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, supposed to appear as accused before the trial court in Ghaziabad in the mysterious murder of their teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj as per the Supreme Court’s earlier order, the Supreme Court on Friday permitted them to seek adjournment of the case before the trial court.

The Supreme Court in its two verdicts in the 2G scam case on Thursday outrightly rejected the government’s argument that judiciary cannot interfere in the policy decisions of the executive, saying if any policy was contrary to the public interest and helped a handful of powerful people, the court has the inherent powers to exercise its jurisdiction in such cases to correct the illegalities committed.

The Supreme Court (SC) will decide the fate of Union home minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam Thursday while fixing for delivery of three more crucial judgments in the case.

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In an important verdict on a draconian provision in the Arms Act making capital punishment mandatory to a person for causing death in any non-Army or paramilitary operations by the weapons listed as “prohibitory” for civilians, the Supreme Court struck down the provision holding it as contrary to the principle of equality of law defined in Article 21 of the Constitution.

The income-tax department on Tuesday finally filed its comprehensive probe report in the Supreme Court in the 2G case, which includes investigation into the leak of Radia tapes to the media.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday severely indicted the Prime Minister’s Office over the “delay” in granting sanction for prosecuting former communications minister A. Raja in the 2G spectrum scam. It has, however, not held Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “directly” responsible for the delay.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Parliament to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act to make granting of sanction for prosecution mandatory in three months in graft cases.

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As the country is witnessing a debate on the crucial issue of federalism in the wake of Centre intending to enact certain laws on the subjects essentially falling in the “state list”, a two-judge benc