‘No need to humiliate me by arrest’: South Carolina’s Pawan Khera in passport dispute case
NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday stayed its order on Congress leader Pawan Khera’s anticipatory bail plea, telling the court that there was “no need to humiliate him by arrest” in the passport dispute case related to…
‘There is no legal vacuum to deal with this crime’ – Supreme Court’s view on hate speech
this Supreme Court Wednesday said existing legal provisions were sufficient to address hate speech crimes but declined to issue further instructions on the matter as it fell within the jurisdiction of the legislature.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and…
SC: Prison reform to give women the right to open prisons
NEW DELHI: In a bid to transform India’s punitive prison system into rehabilitation centres, the Supreme Court has ordered sweeping reforms and ruled that women prisoners have the same fundamental rights as male prisoners to be housed in Open…
SC condemns Bengal for rushing to court every day against SIR
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday reprimanded the West Bengal government for sporadically rushing to court on “vague and irrelevant” reasons to delay the completion of particularly intensive revisions of the state electoral roll to…
Katara case: SC gives Yadav one week’s leave to spend Holi with family
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the plea of ​​Vikas Yadav, convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to be released from jail on leave. Yadav is currently serving a 25-year sentence without commutation.A bench of Justices MM…