Former Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association President and senior lawyer Latif Afridi was killed after an assailant opened fire on him outside the Peshawar High Court on Monday, Geo News reported.
Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday while replying to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said convenient politics is not advisable, especially in the name of the Judiciary, adding that the Constitution of India is supreme and nobody is above it.
The apex court was hearing a plea seeking immediate intervention by the top court to direct the Centre to assist in reparation work and providing of urgent relief to people of Joshimath in Uttarakhand, who are living in fear in the wake of a landslide and subsidence.
Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea of Bharatiya Janata Party leader (BJP) leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain challenging the Delhi High Court order which upheld the decision of the trial court to order registration of FIR against him in relation to the alleged 2018 rape case.
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the SC Constitution Bench had directed to restructure the memorandum of procedure (MoP) of the collegium system.
Pongal's main custom 'Jallikattu event' also known as 'Eru Thazhuvuthal' and 'Mancuvirattu' started in full swing in three villages of Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Sunday.
Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has approached the Supreme Court seeking protection and quashing of the multiple FIRs registered against her in various States over the poster of her documentary film showing goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette.
As part of a larger campaign to hold accountable those guilty, a justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court approved an investigation on Friday to determine whether former president Jair Bolsonaro sparked the unrest in the nation's capital on January 8, The Washington Post reported.
SC directed that the order of the High Court, which held that a Muslim girl aged 15 years can enter into legal and valid marriage as per personal law, should not be relied on as a precedent in any other case.
Quoting the Supreme Court Bench order, Kejriwal said that LG does not have the power to take independent decisions in matters of the transferred subject.