CJI Surya Kant
- India
We will protect students’ right to hold peaceful protests: CJI
Patna: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday asserted that the judiciary is committed to “protecting” students’ fundamental right to hold peaceful protests and that courts will not look the other…
- India
SC bench divided on CEC appointment law, refers case to CJI
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 23, delivered a split verdict on whether a batch of petitions challenging the 2023 law on the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)…
- India
Vande Mataram row: SC asks Centre to address religious conscience
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, September 22, told the Centre to keep in mind its 1986 judgment, which protected children from penal actions for not singing the national anthem, as…
- India
CBSE opposes Class 6 exemption from three-language rule
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider implementing its policy mandating the study of three languages, including two native Indian…
- India
Delhi SIR: SC to hear plea against electoral roll deletions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, agreed to hear on September 21 a plea against deletion of names from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
- India
No security yet: Nishu Azad says no action despite SC directions
Hyderabad: The 14-year-old Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestor whose father was assaulted during the Jantar Mantar protests by Hindutva worker Swatantra Bhardwaj has claimed that despite Supreme Court intervention, she continues to…
- India
SC refuses to alter high-powered committee in NEET protest case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 10, made it clear that it will not agree to any changes in the reconstitution of the five-member high-powered committee headed by former top…
- Delhi
Child is a child: SC seeks action over threats to Nishu Azad
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 10, took serious note of allegations that miscreants subjected 14-year-old Nishu Azad, who took part in the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protests, to rape…
- India
How dare they: SC raps Greater Noida magistrate’s CJP notice
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 9, came down heavily on the Greater Noida executive magistrate for issuing a notice to a student for taking part in the Cockroach Janta…
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BCI chairman only interim until new body elected: Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 2, remarked that Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra’s position was only “pro tem” or for the time being until a…
- Hyderabad
CJI row: NALSAR body backs NLSIU students after convocation axed
Hyderabad: The Student Bar Council of the city-based NALSAR University of Law has expressed its solidarity with the graduating batch of 2026 of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru,…
- India
SC to hear Centre’s plea to quash FIRs against NEET protesters
New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Tuesday, September 1, a plea filed by the Centre seeking to quash the first information reports (FIRs) registered against students who participated in…
- Hyderabad
Right to question is not defiance: SC judges on NALSAR row
New Delhi: Supreme Court judges Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice BV Nagarathna have both used addresses at the National Law University, Delhi, to weigh in on the fallout from the recent row over…
- Kolkata
Only 2 pc of Bengal SIR exclusion appeals decided so far
New Delhi: Barely 2 per cent of the nearly 38 lakh appeals filed by voters excluded from West Bengal’s electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) had been decided as of August…
- India
Allegations alone are not findings: CJI on Rajasthan Chief Justice
New Delhi: Allegations alone cannot be treated as findings, said Chief Justice of India Surya Kant regarding the accusations against the acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court, Sanjeev Prakash Sharma.…
