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Rajya Sabha Elections: Elections to 75 of the 245 seats in the Upper House are scheduled for April, June, and November next year
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Numbers belonging to at least five of Rahul Gandhi's closest friends and other Congress party officials were also noted as potential targets for surveillance using the spyware, a leaked list of potential targets selected by NSO customers revealed.
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Activist Saket Gokhale had sought consent, a condition precedent for initiating criminal contempt proceedings, of the top-most law officer to initiate the case against the former CJI who had reportedly said at an event that the judiciary is "ramshackled" and it is quite unlikely for a person to get a timely verdict.
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Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has claimed that former CJI Ranjan Gogoi could be the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate in next year's assembly polls.
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We must acknowledge that judges too are human as the rest of us. The system must not rely on their higher virtues but be immune to their human frailness
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As Gogoi reached the designated spot to take the oath, opposition members raised slogans prompting Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to say that it was unbecoming of members.
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The former CJI was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 16.
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In 1958, the law commission recommended banning post-retirement government employment for Supreme Court judges because the government was a large litigant in the courts. Perhaps, we should reopen the old debate on this issue.
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The lure of post-retirement postings has plagued India’s constitutional courts for many decades, irrespective of the government or party in power.
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Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi considered the advice of his late law minister before nominating Gogoi.
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He etched his name in the annals of history when a five-judge bench headed by him on November 9 brought an end to the Ayodhya land dispute, which dates back to even before the Supreme Court came into existence in 1950.
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A five-judge bench headed by him on November 9 brought the curtains down on the Ayodhya land dispute, which dates back to even before the Supreme Court came into existence in 1950.
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Justice Gogoi sat in the bench with chief justice-designate S A Bobde for just four minutes, during which Supreme Court Bar Association president Rakesh Khanna expressed gratitude on behalf of the Bar to the chief justice.
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The bench will pronounce verdict in another political sensitive case in which a review has been sought of the December 14, 2018 judgement by which the Modi government was given a clean chit in the procurement of Rafale jet fighter.
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The broadening perspective of the Supreme Court about the contextual aspect in the Ayodhya case has implications for other cases as well. This implies that issues cannot be considered in isolation and brings into play factors that may have hitherto been considered extraneous.
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These judgements, expected to be delivered by outgoing CJI Ranjan Gogoi, include the Ayodhya land dispute case
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Justice Gogoi wrote a letter to the Ministry of Law and Justice recommending Justice Bobde to be the next chief justice, According to the official sources.
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A notice by the office of Supreme Court Secretary General also said that the report of the committee constituted as part of the In-House procedure is not liable to be made public.
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The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer.
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A statement from the apex court said "this is wholly incorrect" that the two judges met justice Bobde on May 3 evening.
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Senior-most judge S A Bobde, who is heading the panel, has appointed Justice Malhotra to the committee. Justice Indira Banerjee is also part of the panel.
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The lawyer had filed an affidavit on April 22 following the unprecedented hearing on April 20 during which the CJI had said a larger conspiracy was behind it and that he would not stoop too low even to deny these allegations.
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Instant 'triple talaq', also known as 'talaq-e-biddat', is an instant divorce whereby a Muslim man can legally divorce his wife by pronouncing 'talaq' three times in one go.
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He made the remarks when a lawyer tried to mention a matter on teachers' recruitment at the fag end of the day, before adjourning the hearing in the Rafale case to March 14.
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A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna was hearing a plea seeking a direction that political parties should comply with the 'two-child norm' and not field candidates having more than two children.
