SC rejects plea challenging EC's decision to hold WB Assembly polls in eight phases

The plea had sought the SC's direction to prevent the EC from conducting 8-phase polls in W Bengal, alleging that it violates Articles 14

AA Edit | Dissent not sedition: SC sends govt clear signal

The criminalising of dissent is the clearest sign of an authoritarian government

The court’s job was limited to see if the man in the dock is guilty or innocent or if he deserves a lenient treatment

Criticisms of Supreme Court judgments by retired members of the top judiciary are not unknown

Today, nine months on, the Supreme Court still takes up only urgent matters for hearing

The speedy disposal paradigm also conflicts with the present condition of fast track courts in the country

The administering of justice should never be selective, or so lacking in humanity that it revolts the human conscience

The three accused were arrested by Alibaug police in Maharashtra's Raigad district on November 4

Questions about the Supreme Court’s vacillation and seeming incapacity to enforce its judgments, have diminished judicial prestige

The political rivalry between YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his arch-rival Telugu Desam chief N Chandrababu Naidu is irrelevant here