New Delhi : Asserting that “constitutional legitimacy must supercede all religious beliefs or practices”, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that appointment as priests in temples and other religious institutions cannot be denied to a person solely on the basis of “caste, birth or any other constitutionally unacceptable parameter”. A benchContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld a Haryana law that bars candidates who have no toilets at home from contesting panchayat polls. The apex court invoked Mahatma Gandhi to lament that the “country had gained notoriety” of lacking such basic facilities despite people having sufficient means. It also justifiedContinue Reading
It was “very embarrassing” when visiting foreign dignitaries speak about the high pollution level.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Curious about the push to circumvent the Parliament and use the courts to usher in the Uniform Civil Code, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Bharatiya Janata Party leader seeking to bring the civil code which brings all religious personal laws under one umbrella. AContinue Reading
In a landmark judgment on 7 October the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) upheld the death sentence of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, 30, who murdered the former Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, a liberal Muslim, on 4 January, 2011. Qadri, one of Taseer’s official bodyguards from the Elite Force, shot himContinue Reading
The state police had cracked down on dance performances in bars for the first time in 2005Continue Reading
About 52,000 commercial vehicles, excluding taxis, enter the landlocked city each dayContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to form a three-judge bench to examine the validity of penal provisions that bans slaughtering of cattle and sale of beef in the state. Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Amitava RoyContinue Reading
New Delhi: In what will be music to the ears of long suffering highway users, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and concessionaires cannot collect toll from commuters if the road is in bad shape Road users have had a long-standing grouse thatContinue Reading
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has received an anonymous email threatening a blast, say the police. All law interns have been barred from entering the court for a month and security checks have been increased in the court premises since the mail, which came last week. Litigants who comeContinue Reading