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
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V On September 15th, the Supreme Court extended the interim protection from arrest by two weeks, to four members of the Editors Guild of India in the FIRs registered for publishing a fact-finding report on the Manipur violence. A Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 14th September 2023, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded the Supreme Court for linking its case management data on active and closed cases to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), mentioning that this would increase judicial transparency and Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V On September 14th, the Supreme Court imposed ₹ 2,000 as costs on an Advocate-on-Record for sending an “unprepared” junior to court in his place to seek an adjournment. The junior lawyer went before a three-judge bench headed by Chief Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On September 12, the Supreme Court refused to wait for the Parliament’s words on the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, a draft law proposed to replace the British-made Indian Penal Code of 1860. Instead, it referred petitions challenging Section 124A, the Read more