-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a petition calling for a uniform age of marriage of 18 years be fixed for all women, regardless of their religion or personal laws. The plea also urged the court to end the “discrimination” existing between genders on the age of marriage by lowering the age for men to get married from 21 years to be at...
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Supreme Court orders CBI probe into HZL stake sale in 2002 -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times The top court ordered a court-monitored CBI investigation into the initial stake sale of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) to Anil Agarwal-run Sterlite Opportunities and Ventures Ltd (SOVL) in 2002 The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the initial stake sale of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) to Anil Agarwal-run Sterlite Opportunities and Ventures Ltd (SOVL) in 2002 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led...
More »Shouldn't Misuse Anti-Terror Law To Quell Dissent: Supreme Court Judge -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV.com "Deprivation of liberty for even a single day is one too many. We must always be mindful of the deeper systemic issues of our decisions," Justice DY Chandrachud said. New Delhi: Anti-terror law should not be "misused for quelling dissent" Supreme Court Judge Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud said on Monday as he was addressing an event on the legal ties between India and the United States. "Criminal law, including anti-terror legislation,...
More »Supreme Court pulls up environment ministry over ‘diluting green standards’ -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had found faults with the ministry’s 2017 notification by which new norms for effluent discharge by sewage treatment plants (STPs) in waterbodies were laid down. It held that the new notification would lead to deterioration of the water quality and prescribed stricter standards based on the recommendations of an expert committee. The Supreme Court on Monday remarked that the ministry of environment should also act...
More »Allahabad HC seeks state's reply on cane farmers' dues
-The Times of India ALLAHABAD: Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking payment of sugarcane farmers' dues, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to file its reply within two days. The court also fixed May 30, as the next date of hearing. The above order was passed by a division bench, comprising Chief Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and Justice Dilip Gupta on a PIL filed by Rastriya...
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