-The Telegraph New Delhi: A wave of rare consensus swept most of the national landscape today as the Supreme Court declared the instant triple talaq unconstitutional and outlawed it by a 3:2 majority verdict. While Justices Kurian Joseph, R.F. Nariman and U.U. Lalit ruled the practice "manifestly arbitrary" and against "public order and morality", Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer differed in their minority view. The minority view...
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SC slams Khattar government, finds 'influence' bags mining lease -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In what could hurt Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar's claim of corruption-free governance, the Supreme Court has severely criticised the manner in which "influence in high places' was used to subvert law regarding grant of mining lease in the state. Dropping loud hints about its displeasure, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said: "This is a classic case of Sunder Marketing...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the government to be "unrelenting, stern and uncompromising" against corruption to realise the benefits of liberalisation and welfare measures, and urged the public to "rise against bribery and corruption". The bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and R. Banumathi also upheld the conviction of former IAS officer Neera Yadav under the Prevention of Corruption Act. "This is the area where the government needs to be...
More »Supreme Court for 3-tier right to privacy: Intimate, private and public -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlined a three-tier, graded approach to the question whether privacy is a fundamental right by examining the issue through its intimate, private and public aspects even as it reserved its verdict in the case. Prior to completion of the two-week-long hearing that attracted arguments for and against conferring fundamental right status to privacy but which saw all parties accepting its intrinsic...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre in a U-turn today told the Supreme Court the right to privacy can be a fundamental right subject to certain limitations, and said it wanted a "smaller bench" - instead of the current nine-judge constitution bench - to decide whether the Aadhaar scheme violated that right. Attorney-general K.K. Venugopal, the country's top law officer, made the concession after the bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and...
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