Justice Ashok Bhushan
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CJI reconstitutes Ayodhya bench to include justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer; case to be heard on 29 January
Fp Staff •Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Friday reconstituted the Constitution Bench hearing the Ayodhya land dispute case.
SC reserves verdict on Congress, EC conflict over alleged duplication of names in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan voters' lists
•The Congress and the Election Commission on Monday sparred in the Supreme Court over the pleas by two senior Congress leaders alleging duplication of names in the voters' lists for the upcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
SC reserves order on Kamal Nath's plea alleging duplicate voters in electoral rolls in Madhya Pradesh
Ians •The EC, however, disputed the contention by Kamal Nath and told the Supreme Court bench that deletion of 24 lakh votes from the voter list was not done after the Congress brought it to their knowledge.
SC verdict on Ayodhya: Yogi Adityanath says 'majority of nation wants solution at the earliest'
•The Supreme Court will now begin hearing on Ayodhya matter from 29 October to decide the suit on merit.
SC issues notice to Sharad Yadav, seeks response on JD(U) petition on his disqualification from Rajya Sabha
•Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, a leader of the JD(U), had moved the Supreme Court saying that Sharad Yadav's disqualification as a Rajya Sabha member was correct as he had formed a new party.
Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply to Shia Waqf Board's plea to ban flags resembling PML(N) symbol
•The plea alleged that the flags resembled the flags of the Pakistan Muslim League, which belongs to an "enemy country."
Debates, criticism of judgments regular now, makes judiciary walk tightrope of independence, says Supreme Court
•The Supreme Court on Friday observed that discussions, debates and criticism of verdicts in the age of technology, open society and liberal democracy make the judiciary walk the "tightrope of independence".
SC constitution bench says validity of parliamentary committee reports cannot be challenged in courts
•The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the validity of parliamentary committee reports cannot be challenged or questioned in courts
Parliament's competence to make Aadhaar mandatory under Income Tax Act can't be questioned: SC
•The Parliament's competence to make Aadhaar mandatory under the Income Tax law cannot be questioned only because Aadhaar is not mandatory under the statute.
2012 Delhi gangrape verdict: Did Supreme Court rely too much on 'collective conscience'?
Sauravdatta •It is the first time that the court was dealing with a case where there were four offenders instead of one, where they collectively raped.