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On Monday, the HC granted permission to three advocates to file separate PILs over the alleged gang rape of a law student in her college.
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Wangchuk and several others have allegedly been detained at the Delhi border while marching to the capital to demand Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh.
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Anubhav Sinha's series IC814: The Kandahar Hijack has garnered significant praise for its cinematic portrayal but has also sparked controversy for alleged 'factual distortions.' In reality, the hijackers were named Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny, Ahmad Qazi, Zahoor Mistry and Shakir. However, in the series, these names were changed to names like Bhola, Shankar, Doctor, Burger and Chief. These were the code names used by the terrorists.
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A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, however, said the dismissal of the PIL does not amount to a decision on the merits of the PIL as it was filed by a lawyer and not by aggrieved students.
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A vacation bench of justices Bela Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal dismissed the plea noting that the law has not come into force as yet.
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"This is not like a James Bond movie where we will have sequels. (Lt) Governor will take a call on this. You are trying to involve us in a political thicket, that's all," remarked the court.
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As the petitioner claimed the government was not doing anything on this, the court said it is a highly sensitive matter which involved state to state relationship.
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The PIL was filed in 2019 by a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) called Citizens Whistle Blower which is linked to lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
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High Court dismisses PIL by students challenging Maharashtra government's public holiday on January 22 for Ayodhya's Ram temple consecration.
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The PIL seeks for directions to the government to constitute an expert committee under the chairmanship of a former judge of the apex court examine, assess, identify the viability of the three new criminal laws.
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The plea , filed by a lawyer called Gopal Singh, also asks the court to direct the government to include the Chief Justice of India in the selection committee for the appointment of the CEC and the ECs
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The PIL was filed by lawyer petitioner Abu Sohel through advocate Shruti Bist.
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A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, while hearing a PIL seeking a holistic system of medicine, observed there existed a "wealth of knowledge" in different systems like allopathy, ayurveda and homeopathy and it should be examined whether they can be integrated.
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A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan reserved its order on the pleas challenging the remission granted to the convicts after hearing submissions by Bilkis Bano's counsel and lawyers for the Centre, the Gujarat government and the PIL petitioners.
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The PIL challenges the legality of statutory rape laws that criminalise consensual sex between adolescents who are above 16 years and below 18 years of age on the ground that their consent to such acts are statutorily invalid.
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The panel deals with the presence of religious structures on public land along with the land owning agency, he said and suggested that the petitioners may approach the committee with their grievances.
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The apex court, while hearing a batch of petitions on July 10 on the ethnic violence in the state had said it was not a platform to be used for escalating tensions in the state and asked the warring groups to exercise restraint during the court proceedings.
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On May 19, the Reserve Bank of India said it is withdrawing Rs 2,000 notes from circulation based on a review. However, the banknotes in Rs 2,000 denomination will continue to be legal tender, the central bank said.
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A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad, which had reserved its order on the PIL on May 30, rejected the plea.
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The petition that came amid an escalating confrontation between the BJP-led Centre and some 20 opposition parties over who should inaugurate the new Parliament building
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A bench of justices JK Maheshwari and PS Narasimha told petitioner in-person advocate Jaya Sukin that the court understands why and how this petition was filed and it is not inclined to entertain this petition under Article 32 of the Constitution.
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A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala dismissed the PIL saying ”we find that the prayer sought in the writ petition cannot be granted by this court in its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.”
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Time was sought for filing reply by the counsel for RBI from a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad which was hearing the plea by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
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A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took note of the submissions of a lawyer, representing Congress leader Jaya Thakur, that the plea needed urgent hearing.
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The petitioner's lawyer claimed that around 35 owners of mango and lychee orchards suffered loss of livelihoods owing to the setting up of the towers, alleging that they have not been given compensation for the land taken from them for the purpose.
