Court News

Same-sex marriage: Impossible to list constitution bench matters unless time rationed, says Supreme Court

Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, who is heading a five-judge constitution bench which is hearing the matter, said the chief justices before him had not set up constitution benches because of the kind of pressure which is there in terms of the inflow of matters

Supreme Court agrees to hear PIL seeking to declare Ram Sethu national heritage monument

A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala took note of the submissions of the BJP leader who mentioned the matter saying the government has not taken any decision till date

Supreme Court to consider setting up 3-judge bench to hear Karnataka Hijab ban row

A two judge bench of the apex court had on October 13, last year delivered opposing verdicts in the hijab controversy, and urged the Chief Justice to constitute an appropriate bench to adjudicate the case that stemmed from a ban on wearing of Islamic head covering in Karnataka schools

'At end of 75 yrs, we need to re-look at reservations in general in spirit of transformative constitutionalism'

The verdict was delivered by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) UU Lalit and Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala

Supreme Court dismisses plea to rename Bombay High Court

A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath dismissed the petition filed by a former judge

Supreme Court dismisses plea against Justice DY Chandrachud, terms it 'misconceived'

"Having heard the counsel, we see no reason to hear.... We find the entire petition to be misconceived," a bench of the apex court said

Married woman asked to do household work for family not cruelty, says HC

A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rajesh Patil quashed the First Information Report lodged against the man and his parents

Man ‘kills’ drunk wife for not making food on festival, K’taka HC says ‘culpable homicide, not murder'; releases him

The incident occurred when Suresha came back from work on a festival day in 2016 to find that his wife Radha had not celebrated by that time and had not cooked food either. She was addicted to alcohol and was sleeping

Uttar Pradesh: Eight polytechnic students get life sentence for gang-raping minor

All the accused were aged between 20 and 24 at the time of the incident and were students of polytechnic. An FIR was registered under relevant section of the IPC and POCSO Act

Lalu Prasad gets court's nod to travel to Singapore for medical treatment

A special CBI court in Ranchi on 16 September had allowed Prasad's plea seeking release of his passport