Jahanvi Agarwal In a recent judicial pronouncement, the Supreme Court issued a stern reminder that judges should refrain from taking up cases that are not expressly assigned to them by the Chief Justice, characterizing such actions as gross impropriety. Justices Read more
Vidushi Vats Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud pointed out a concerning state of affairs at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Wednesday. He took action by issuing contempt notices to judicial member Rakesh Kumar and technical member Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal In a historic decision on October 17, 2023, the Supreme Court made a pivotal judgment regarding recognizing queer unions in India. While it refrained from granting legal status to queer marriages, it opened the doors to significant progress Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 13th October 2023, the Supreme Court made the decision to reject a PIL that contested Einstein’s iconic equation, E = mc², as well as calling into question Darwin’s theories of evolution. The court firmly stated that it Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Supreme Court turned down a woman’s plea to have her 26-week pregnancy medically terminated. The woman came before the court earlier in October and asserted that postpartum depression, horrible financial circumstances, and lactational amenorrhoea, a disease that Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Supreme Court recently encountered a petition in which a falsified document was presented as an order issued by the Supreme Court itself, which was a significant development. When the Court recognized that the order was fraudulent, it Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 26th September 2023, the Supreme Court criticized the Centre for delaying action on 70 recommendations for the appointment and transfer of High Court Judges, signaling the beginning of a new round of conflict between the government and Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Supreme Court of India turned down a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on September 22, 2023, which requested an impartial assessment of the source codes for Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The bench, comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently, the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa decided that its office must respect the rules established by the Supreme Court in August 2022 and provide a two-year provisional enrollment certificate to a law graduate who is already employed somewhere Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 18th September 2023, the Madras High Court’s decision to not allow the selling of Ganesh idols made of plaster of Paris was upheld by the Supreme Court without any intervention. In a special hearing on 17th September 2023, a Read more