Supreme Court of India

Shafaqna India: All eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano case surrendered at the Godhra sub-jail in Gujarat’s Panchmahal district on Sunday, January 21, just minutes before the Supreme Court-imposed deadline expired.…

With a strength of less than 21,000 judges, the Indian judiciary is struggling to clear a backlog of more than five crore cases across various levels of the court system,…

In a relief to the Hindu side, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Allahabad High Court order allowing the the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct…

With the Supreme Court fixing July 11 to hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, IAS officer Shah Faesal, one of the petitioners has said that the matter now…

News channels are televising footage of former lawmaker Atiq Ahmed getting out of the back of a police jeep only to be shot mere seconds later by a group of…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea seeking a probe into the killings of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf. The plea sought a direction for…

Terming hate speech as a “vicious circle”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was a result of mixing politics with religion and wondered why states can’t develop a mechanism…

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a plea to immediately list a plea seeking permission to allow students to appear in annual examinations in Karnataka’s pre-university colleges with their…

: India’s top court on Thursday ordered the setting up of a bipartisan panel that will include the prime minister and the chief justice to select the country’s election commissioners,…

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Central government to appoint a renaming commission to rechristen cities and places called after foreign invaders. The apex…

The Supreme Court on Monday observed that everything which is said could not be equated with hate speech, stressing: “We have a common enemy, that is hate. That is the…

The opposition parties on Monday protested in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament premises demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) or Supreme Court monitored probe into the allegations of…

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a plea to constitute a three-judge bench to consider petitions challenging ban on hijab in classrooms of pre university colleges in Karnataka.…

The Supreme Court on Friday said the television channels are creating divisions in society, as they are agenda-driven and compete to sensationalise news, and anchors who try to create divisions…

After the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the demonetisation exercise of the government, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the dissent part of the judgement points out irregularities. Chidambaram in…

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has declared that the state will give reservations to Other Backward Classes or OBCs in the local bodies and would hold a survey under…

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Friday said that there will be no vacation benches during the winter break of the Supreme Court, which begins from Saturday. On Thursday,…

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on a plea by the National Commission for Women seeking a direction to make the marriageable age of girls/women of…

Gujarat’s gang-rape victim Bilkis Bano on Wednesday challenged the recent remission of sentence and release of convicts in the 2002 case of brutal assault and the murder of her family,…

The Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s recent comment on the collegium system of appointing judges, saying it should not have happened. The apex…

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reconstitute a constitution bench to hear a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of polygamy and ‘nikah-halala’ among Muslims.…

I have lost count of violent incidents in the country. India is increasingly becoming a disorderly state where political parties have no respect for the rule of law and where…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission to defer issuing a gazette notification for Rampur Assembly by-election till November 11, which would allow Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan…

Education is not a business to earn profit and tuition fees shall always be affordable, the Supreme Court has said while upholding the Andhra Pradesh High Court order quashing the…

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment providing 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and government jobs. Three out…

INCENSED by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities concerned despite its orders, the Supreme Court has taken a stern view of the growing incidents of hate speech which…

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a slew of directions to curb hate speeches and directed the Delhi, UP, and Uttrakhand Police to take suo motu action, even without complaint,…

The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on a clutch of petitions challenging the Karnataka government’s February 5 order, prohibiting wearing of hijab inside classrooms in pre-university colleges.…

Supreme Court judge Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, in the split verdict on Karnataka hijab ban, on Thursday said by asking girls to take off their hijab before they enter school gates…

Aborting a foetus is a moral crime, said Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) and appealed to Supreme Court to review its ruling which has given legal abortion rights to all women, married…