The Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on Wednesday wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and requested him for Grant of Holiday in all courts of the country on the occasion of Ram Mandir's inauguration on January 22.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will hear on January 22 plea of Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena challenging the order of Maharashtra Speaker on the dismissal of disqualification pleas against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde faction MLAs.
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Thursday declined to interfere with the listing of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain's bail plea before a different bench combination.
As a lawyer on Friday told the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud to think of reforming the Supreme Court's Collegium system and system of designating advocates as seniors, CJI said he is a "servant of the law and the Constitution" and has to follow the position laid down by the law.
The Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Thursday announced that the Keshavananda Bharti judgement is now available in 10 Indian languages on the website of the Supreme Court.
The CJI's remarks came while he was addressing a gathering at the Justice Keshav Chandra Dhulia Memorial Lecture. Justice Keshav Chandra Dhulia is the father of sitting Supreme Court judge Sudhanshu Dhulia.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Friday that with the advent of troll armies and organised disinformation campaigns across different social media platforms, the fear is that there is an overwhelming barrage of speech that distorts the truth.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear in January a batch of pleas challenging Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises the offence of sedition.