Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for Centre, told a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud that the process of updation of the voters' list in Jammu and Kashmir is underway and it will take a month or so to complete.
Violence has gripped the entire state for over four months now and the Central government had to deploy paramilitary forces to bring the situation under control.
The five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud told the Centre that it will have to justify the procedure adopted for abrogation as the court cannot postulate a situation "where the ends justify the means".
On August 21, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that it will constitute a bench to hear the case after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Tamil Nadu, sought an urgent hearing of the case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud refused to entertain the plea filed by the West Bengal government which challenged the Calcutta High Court order transferring investigation of municipality recruitment matters to the CBI.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said it will constitute a bench to hear the case today itself after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Tamil Nadu, sought an urgent hearing of the case.
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre on Plea challenging the vires of the statutory rape laws that criminalise consensual sex by 16+ to 18 years.
Amid the hearing of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 in the Supreme Court, former chief minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said that we have hopes from the Supreme Court that it do justice.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday launched a handbook on combating gender stereotypes that would guide judges to avoid the usage of inappropriate gender terms in court orders and legal language.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address to the nation has laid out a road map to make India a developed nation by 2047, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Tuesday.