A 5-choose bench of the Supreme Court is about to begin listening to on Tuesday on a fixed of petitions in search of prison reputation of identical-intercourse marriage, and different rights to be had to “married” couples. The bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjay Kishen Kaul, Justice S Ravindra Bhat, Justice Hima Kohli and […]
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Bail, not jail: Why Supreme Court put emphasis on separate bail law
The Supreme Court has dominated that bail stays the guideline of thumb and prison is the exception, and has referred to as for a separate bail regulation to prevent “useless arrests.” In the phrases of former Supreme Court Justice VR Krishna Iyer, “the primary rule might also additionally possibly be tersely said as bail, now […]
Violates open, natural justice: Supreme Court decries sealed cover practice, lays down guidelines
In a lift to press freedom and transparency, the Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the ban on Kerala-primarily based totally Malayalam information channel, MediaOne, and decried the Centre`s exercise of filing `sealed cowl` reviews. “Sealed cowl court cases infringe the concepts of herbal justice and open justice,” the bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) […]
SC to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of sedition law today
In a path-breaking order, the pinnacle courtroom docket had on May 11 ultimate 12 months determined to install abeyance the penal law on sedition until an “suitable” authorities discussion board re-tested it and directed the Centre and states to now no longer sign in any sparkling FIR invoking the offence. Nearly seven months after setting […]
Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Challenging Sedition Law, Places Of Worship Act Today
The Supreme Court is scheduled to pay attention vital petitions on Monday consisting of the appeals on sedition law after seven months for the reason that courtroom docket had placed the colonial-era penal law on keep and is in all likelihood to take a batch of pleas difficult the validity of the 1991 law on […]