The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging Section 64 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) saying it discriminates against women by treating the adult female members of a family as incompetent of accepting the summons on behalf of the person summoned.
An advocate this morning mentioned before the bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, who said that now the matter will be heard by his bench.
This has come days after the parents of the 2012 Chhawla gangrape victim met Delhi LG VK Saxena and requested him to file a review petition against the acquittal of all three accused.
The Uttarakhand CM said he had spoken to Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and has also received detailed information on the case from the victim's lawyer Charu Khanna.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday said Judges at the grassroots are reluctant to grant bail due to the sense of fear of being targeted for granting bail in heinous cases.
Supreme Court Judge Justice Abhay Oka on Saturday addressed a seminar organised by Telecom Dispute Statement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) in Pune and said that the Aadhar Act should be amended and remedies should be given to those who are deprived of the Aadhar card
The Uttarakhand government has filed the application on October 18 stating that the state government has decided to withdraw the SLP filed against the High Court's October 27, 2020 order.
In its November 11 order, the Supreme Court had suspended the sentence of six-month imprisonment imposed by the Madras High Court for contempt of court on Savukku Shankar.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined the plea of NIA seeking to vacate the order allowing the shifting of Gautam Navlakha, accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, to house arrest from the Taloja prison.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday remarked that a lawyer appearing in court without carrying a copy of his brief is like Sachin Tendulkar without his bat on the cricket pitch.
The Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on Friday recused from hearing a plea challenging the Central Government's decision of extending the term of the ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra.