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'For how many generations will reservations continue?', SC on Maratha quota case
•The five-judge Constitution bench also raised concerns over 'resultant inequality' in case the overall 50 percent cap on quotas was to be removed
Top lawyers' refusal to defend TikTok undermines India’s claims of being rule of law country
Alok Prasanna Kumar •By opting against representing ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Mukul Rohatgi have set the legal profession and the rule of law in India on a slippery slope
Supreme Court judge Arun Mishra apologises for threatening contempt proceedings against lawyer in hearing land acquisition case
•Supreme Court lawyers requested Justice Arun Mishra on Thursday to be patient in dealing with them after the judge warned a lawyer of contempt while hearing a land acquisition matter two days ago.
Disqualified Karnataka MLAs move Supreme Court seeking further postponement of Assembly bypolls slated for 5 December
•The disqualified Karnataka MLAs moved the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking further postponement of the Assembly bypolls which are scheduled to take place on 5 December.
MLA has right to resign, does not amount to defection: Speaker of Karnataka Assembly tells Supreme Court
Fp Staff •The Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lawmaker has the right to resign from his post and that the same would not amount to defection
Disqualification case of 17 Karnataka MLAs: Mukul Rohatgi tells SC bench to defer bypolls or stay ex-Speaker KR Ramesh's order
Fp Staff •The 17 Karnataka MLAs, who were disqualified from the state Assembly earlier this year, on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to make Election Commission a party to their case
Supreme Court refuses to intervene after JD(U) MP's self-proclaimed wife moves plea seeking to live with him
•JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Prasad, popularly known as 'King Mahendra', has found himself in a peculiar legal tangle wherein a woman has knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court seeking to live with him claiming to be his legally wedded wife
Delhi court to deliver verdict on DK Shivakumar’s bail application on 25 Sep; Cong leader may influence witnesses, says ED
•The Enforcement Directorate (ED) accused DK Shivakumar of committing a 'serious economic offence' and said it's a threat to national economy
DK Shivakumar sent to Tihar Jail after discharge from Delhi's RML Hospital, will remain in judicial custody till 1 October
Fp Staff •Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar was taken to Tihar Jail after getting discharged from RML hospital in New Delhi. Shivakumar, arrested on 3 September by the ED in a money laundering case, was produced before the court on Tuesday, which had sent him to judicial custoday till 1 October.
Madras HC adjourns hearing of plea seeking linking of Aadhar with social media accounts to 19 Sept
•The Supreme Court sought the responses of the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Tuesday on Facebook Inc's plea seeking transfer of the pending cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar in different high courts to the apex court