-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that it may not be feasible to let domestic migrants vote from wherever they have shifted to as such a step would be "fraught with risks". The poll panel, which submitted an interim report on Friday, contended that diluting the residential criteria might open the gates for manipulation and compromise the "purity of electoral rolls". The report came in response to...
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SC to examine Muslim personal law, aim to end gender bias -Bhadra Sinha
-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court has decided to examine Islamic personal law to consider doing away with provisions biased against Muslim women, often victims of polygamy and the triple talaq system, a controversial move that may upset a section of the community that has resisted reform. A bench of justices AR Dave and AK Goel requested Chief Justice of India HL Dattu to constitute an appropriate bench and address the issue to...
More »Centre to seek review of SC order on banning photos of leaders in government ads -Amit Anand Choudhary & Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it would soon join hands with West Bengal, Karnataka, Assam and Tamil Nadu to seek review of its May 13 judgment banning photos of political leaders, except President, prime minister and Chief Justice of India, in government advertisements. In an affidavit filed before the court denying any violation of the May 13 judgment, the information and broadcasting...
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-Economic and Political Weekly Independence of the judiciary is not the issue in the current stand-off; it is control over appointments. The decision of the Supreme Court striking down the Constitution 99th Amendment and the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) marks a high confrontation level between the executive and the judiciary. One of the first actions of the Narendra Modi government was to bring into being the NJAC to make appointments to...
More »HC vacancies hit 39% amid executive-judiciary face-off -Shankar Raghuraman
-The Times of india The stand-off between the judiciary and the legislature over the procedure for appointing judges comes at a time when the country's 24 high courts have 397 pending vacancies for judges, and what's more, eight of them having acting Chief Justices. It is not clear at this point whether these vacancies can now be filled through the earlier collegium system or that will have to wait till the system...
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