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The Supreme Court has declined to interfere with a judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court directing the Railway authorities to consider the claim of a deceased employees grandson for appointment on compassionate grounds. A Bench comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Vijay Bishnoi dismissed the challenge instituted by the Union of India and the [] The post Supreme Court declines to interfere with direction to consider grandson for Railway compassionate appointment appeared first on India

A Buddhist activist has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Union Governments directions prescribing the singing and playing of the complete six-stanza version of Vande Mataram at specified official occasions, contending that the mandate has implications for secularism, religious freedom and constitutional fraternity. The writ petition has been filed by BD Borkar, a Nagpur-based Buddhist [] The post Buddhist activist challenges Centres six-stanza Vande Mataram mandate before Supreme Court ap

A Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in New Delhi has ordered the framing of charges against separatist leader Yasin Malik and six others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a case concerning alleged foreign funding routed through hawala channels to finance secessionist and subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The accused [] The post NIA Court orders framing of PMLA charges against Yasin Malik, six others in alleged hawala funding case appeared first on I

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to Ahmed Bawa @ Abbu Abubakar Barelvi, one of the 38 convicts sentenced to capital punishment in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Augustine George Masih passed the order while hearing Barelvis [] The post Supreme Court puts Ahmed Bawa Barelvis death sentence on hold in Ahmedabad blasts case appeared first on India Legal .

The Supreme Court, in association with the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), has launched a monthly lecture and dialogue series titled The Constitution as a Charter of Opportunity: Democracy, Enterprise and Inclusive Nation-Building,for which the first lecture was delivered by by Prof Dr Ranbir Singh, NLU, Delhi In his address, Prof. Singh proposed viewing the [] The post Supreme Court launches monthly lecture series on Constitution as charter of opportunity appeared first on India Legal .

The Supreme Court on September 21 ordered a fresh investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the 2012 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, observing that the manner in which the case was investigated by the local police, Karnataka CID and CBI shocks the very conscience of the court. A [] The post Dharmasthala rape-murder: Supreme Court orders fresh SIT probe, says earlier investigation deeply offends the courts sense of justice appeared first on India L