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Nirbhaya’s mother after a hearing at the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Supreme Court rejects plea of accused in Nirbhaya case

The court gave Akshay Kumar Singh seven days’ time, as permitted, to file mercy petition before the President.

19 Dec 2019 3:33 AM

A Jamia teacher displays a placard during a peaceful protest in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Supreme Court seeks Centre’s reply on pleas challenging validity

59 petitions on CAA listed; next hearing set for January 22.

19 Dec 2019 3:25 AM

The petition also seeks directions to the Delhi government and police to allow students to enter the varsity as well as compensation and proper medical treatment for those injured in the violence at the university. (Photo: File)

Delhi HC agrees to hear PIL seeking fact-finding committee to look into Jamia violence

Plea was moved in Delhi HC after SC on Tuesday had said that such petitions relating to violence be moved in high courts concerned.

18 Dec 2019 12:15 PM

SC refuses to stay implementation of Citizenship Act, pleas deferred till Jan

The apex court also issued notice to the Centre over the Act and asked to file response by second week of January.

18 Dec 2019 11:26 AM

Among those who filed the petitions are senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, the Indian Union Muslim League and Asom Gana Parishad, an ally of the ruling BJP in Assam. (Photo: File)

SC to hear pleas challenging Citizenship Amendment Act today

A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India will hear the petitions. The other judges are Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant.

18 Dec 2019 8:35 AM

Students hold placards as they raise slogans during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens at Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

‘Police atrocities’: SC nixes probe panel plea

The court did not entertain either plea for ‘no arrest of the students’ till the high courts heard the matter.

18 Dec 2019 1:52 AM

CJI Bobde recuses from hearing convict’s review petition in Nirbhaya gangrape case

The CJI said he would constitute a bench which would take up the review plea on Wednesday at 10.30 am.

17 Dec 2019 2:43 PM

The students were protesting against the government’s Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, which gives citizenship to migrants, of six non-Muslim minority communities from three countries, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. (Photo: PTI)

Go to respective high courts: SC on plea over police action against CAA protesters

The Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said: 'We do not have to intervene. It is a law and order problem.'

17 Dec 2019 2:14 PM

Religion must be considered pan-India: SC dismisses plea on Hindus as minorities

The plea challenged the validity of the Centre's 26-year-old notification declaring five communities as minorities.

17 Dec 2019 12:04 PM

Noting that the objectives of the Right to Information Act are laudable, the court said there are instances where people misuse the transparency law for questionable ends.

Supreme Court favours guidelines to check misuse of RTI

CJI Bobde wondered as to who are these people claiming to be RTI activists — is it a profession, he asked.

17 Dec 2019 7:25 AM

Police personnel (top) gather outside Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama college in Lucknow as students protest against the amended Citizenship Act and indulged in stone-pelting on Monday, a day after their AMU and Jamia counterparts clashing with men in khaki. (Photo: PTI)

Supreme Court to hear pleas alleging police brutality today

Cops were beating students in Jamia University library, senior lawyer Colin Gonsalves tells top court.

17 Dec 2019 7:07 AM

Top court to hear petitions challenging CAA on Dec 18

The petition by Debabrata Saikia says that the amended citizenship law violated the Assam accord.

17 Dec 2019 6:58 AM

It has been 7 years after that night of December 16 when the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was savagely gangraped and left for dead on a Delhi street. (Photo: File | Representational)

7 years on, despair shrouds Nirbhaya rapists’ home and colony

One of the six accused Akshay Singh's petition is due to be heard on December 17.

15 Dec 2019 4:51 PM

The BCCI will decide on the composition of its Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) and subsequent changes in the national selection committee only after the Supreme Court hears its plea on amending some of the key Lodha reforms in January. (Photo: AFP)

CAC and selection committee unlikely to be formed before January hearing of SC

This could mean that MSK Prasad-led committee will also select the squad for the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka.

14 Dec 2019 10:58 AM

The court said this on two petition filed by Rehana Fathima, Bindu Ammini and others, seeking police protection for entering the temple, which is open to the pilgrims only for a shorter duration during a year.

Larger bench order in Sabarimala case not last word: SC

“We know there is no stay, the (2018) order should be complied with,” said CJI Bobde.

14 Dec 2019 5:51 AM

Dozen anti-CAB pleas filed in Supreme Court

A petition by the leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia stated that the amended citizenship law violates the Assam accord.

14 Dec 2019 5:09 AM

The mother of the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder victim on Friday said she wants those convicted in the case to be hanged before December 16, the day her daughter 'Nirbhaya' was brutally assaulted and left to die on the road seven years ago. (Photo: File)

'Want them to be hanged before Dec 16': Nirbhaya mother's plea against rapists

The mother has moved the Supreme Court against the review plea by one of the men sentenced to death in the case.

13 Dec 2019 1:54 PM

SC Ayodhya verdict final, all review pleas rejected

Decision on 18 petitions taken after a single hearing.

13 Dec 2019 1:27 AM

SC sets up inquiry commission to probe T'gana encounter

The inquiry commission will be headed by former SC judge VS Sirpurkar and a deadline of six months has been set.

12 Dec 2019 11:46 AM

Earlier today, key Hindu litigant Nirmohi Akhara filed a review petition in the apex court. Since the pronouncement of the verdict, a handful of review petitions have been filed. (Photo: File)

SC to hear review petitions in Ayodhya case tomorrow

A five-judge Constitution bench will hear the petitions at 1.40 pm tomorrow.

11 Dec 2019 9:16 PM

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