The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Andhra Pradesh police not to arrest former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in the FibreNet case till it delivers judgment on the plea in the Skill Development scam case. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi posted the anticipatory bail
Delhi's Saket court on Wednesday pronounced the verdict in the 15-year-old murder case of Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan convicting five accused under provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on a plea filed by the plea of former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu seeking to quash the FIR registered against him in the skill development scam case.
A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ruled in a 3:2 verdict against giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages. The top court said it is for Parliament to formulate legislation on it.
The minority verdict, however, agreed with the three judges and said it could not strike down the provisions of the Special Marriage Act (SMA) or read words differently to include non-heterosexual couples within its fold and left it to the Parliament to decide the issue.
"SC has upheld the principle of parliamentary supremacy. It is not up to the courts to decide who gets married under what law. My faith and my conscience say that marriage is only between a man and a woman. This is not a question of decriminalisation like in the case of 377, it is about t
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the Supreme Court judgement concerning same-sex marriages and said the court has pushed the ball in the government's court issue "which is unlikely to take up the rights of the
A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ruled in a 3:2 verdict against giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages. The top court said it is for Parliament to formulate legislation on it.
Mehta, who argued on behalf of the Centre said that the case was beyond the scope of the Supreme Court and fell within the domain of Parliament. He further said that apex court's judgement balances the interests of individuals with the interests of a civilised society.
Even though the Supreme Court has refused to give marriage equality rights to the LGBTQIA+ community noting that conferring legal status to civil union can only be through a law enacted by Parliament, petitioners and rights activists, though disappointed, but were of the view that the ver