Cji Dipak Misra

CJI Dipak Misra breaks silence over judges' dissent, says, 'Don't destroy or weaken the system, transform it'

"There may be some elements who try to weaken the institution," but "I and you (lawyer community) together will refuse to succumb," CJI Dipak Misra said in an apparent reference to discordant voices coming from within the top judiciary and outside

Article 35-A updates: Supreme Court adjourns hearing to 27 Aug; 2-judge bench can't hear matter, says CJI

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing on pleas challenging Constitutional validity of Article 35-A pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir.

Daily Bulletin: SC judges to meet CJI over KM Joseph's appointment, SEBI to send notice to Mehul Choksi in Antigua and other top stories of the day

With controversy over Justice Joseph's appointment to Supreme Court to legal trouble for Kamal Hassan, here are the top stories for the day

'Individual's privacy is supreme, should not be disturbed': CJI Dipak Misra delivers MC Setalvad memorial lecture

An individual's privacy is supreme and should not be disturbed, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said.

SC calls Section 377 'infrastructure for denying rights', gives hope to LGBTQ community that IPC section may soon be struck down

Observation made by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in the ongoing hearing of curative petitions to quash Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises "consensual acts of adults in private", have given hope to the LGBTQ community.

Section 377 Supreme Court hearing updates: IPC section eclipsed by privacy verdict, must be struck down, says lawyer

In a series of arguments, in a batch of petitions challenging the vires of Section 377 of the India Penal Code, Senior advocate Arvind Datar says Section 377 is eclipsed post the privacy judgement and needs to be struck down.

Section 377: Supreme Court to begin hearing petitions against criminalising homosexuality today

On Tuesday, a newly re-constituted five-judge Supreme Court constitution bench will commence hearing petitions on repealing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises sexual relationship between persons of same sex.

Supreme Court reserves verdict on plea for banning lawmakers from practising as advocates

The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a plea seeking to ban legislators from practising as advocates.

Chief Justice of India is master of roster, has authority to allocate cases, rules two-judge Supreme Court bench

The Supreme Court maintained that the Chief Justice of India is "the master of the roster" and has the prerogative and authority to allocate cases to different benches of the apex court. In his PIL, Bhushan had alleged that "master of roster" cannot be an "unguided and unbridled" discretionary power, exercised arbitrarily by the CJI by hand-picking benches of select judges or by assigning cases to particular judges.

Supreme Court resumes work after summer break: Ayodhya, Aadhaar, Delhi power tussle among matters listed for hearing

In the coming days, the Supreme Court is expected to deliver judgments in crucial cases including Aadhaar's constitutional validity, the power struggle in Delhi, and the review petition filed by death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi rape case.