The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Election Commission on a plea challenging the deletion of lakhs of names from the voters' lists in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and said that it is an "important issue".
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed to provide security to Bar Council of India members after it suspended the licence of lawyers who resorted to vandalism during the strikes in Odisha and also called for stringent action against the erring advocates allegedly involved in the violence.
The impugned Regulations were notified on 04.11.2019 and have restricted the maximum number of attempts to four to clear the first professional university exams. Consequently, the names of these students had been struck off from their respective Medical colleges/universities.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would consider listing for hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.
The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended the appointment of new Chief Justices for the High Courts of Gauhati, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
On November 10, the bench in an interim order permitted Navlakha to be placed under house arrest for a period of one month considering his health condition and old age.
The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the special selection board would consider issues relating to the promotion of 246 women Army officers.