New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to a convict serving a life term in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. He had been in jail for 17 years.

A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimhan took note of the submission of the counsel appearing for convict Farooq that he be granted bail in view of his jail term till date. The incident claimed 59 lives.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court sought response of the Karnataka government on a plea challenging the Karnataka High Court’s decision to set aside its decision to ban hijab in educational institutions.

The apex court, however, has given a thumbs up to some of the petitioners seeking postponement of the hearing. The supreme court said it will not allow the ‘court to create a shopping platform’.

A bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia said the petitioners have been continuously seeking urgent hearing on the matter and now that these petitions have been listed, a letter is being circulated seeking adjournment of the hearing. “This is not acceptable,” the bench said. You repeatedly asked for an urgent and first hearing… Now that (the petitions) were listed, you started saying this. We will not allow it to become a shopping platform.

Come for a debate tomorrow. We’ll listen to you tomorrow. It may be recalled that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Karnataka government, had brought to the notice of the court that a letter seeking adjournment of the hearing has been circulated.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that free facilities and social welfare schemes are two different things and the economy needs to strike a balance between loss of money and welfare measures.

The Supreme Court also ruled out the possibility of considering a petition seeking de-recognition of political parties for promising free facilities.

A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Krishna Murari asked various parties to give suggestions on the issue before August 17, saying the idea of de-recognition of parties which had promised irrational freebies during elections was “undemocratic”. “They do not want to get into the controversy over de-recognition of political parties etc as it is an undemocratic idea.

“They do not want to get into the controversy over de-recognition of political parties etc as it is an undemocratic idea. After all, there is democracy in our country.”

He said the promise of irrational freebies during the election process was a serious issue but he would not interfere in the functioning of the legislature even if the legislative position was not clear on the issue. ‘

“You may call me a non-willed or conservative, but I don’t want to interfere in the jurisdiction of the legislature. I am a fundamentalist. This is a serious issue. This is not an easy thing. We will listen to others as well. The CJI, who is set to retire from office on August 26, said some suggestions have been made by the senior lawyers and he also asked other parties to give their suggestions before their retirement and posted the matter for hearing on August 17.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said that recently some political parties have made distribution of free facilities an art form.

“Elections are fought on this basis. It is unfortunate that some parties in the country think that distributing goods free of cost is the only way for the welfare of the society. This understanding is completely unscientific and will lead to a serious economic crisis. “

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Chandigarh: Former Punjab Congress president Navjot Sidhu has been sentenced to one year by the Supreme Court in a road rage case. The case is about 34 years old. When Navjot Sidhu and his friend got into a fight with someone over parking in Patiala, a 65-year-old man died.

The Supreme Court today pronounced the sentence on a review petition in the ongoing road rage case against them. The case is about 34 years old.

Reacting on the development, Sidhu wrote on his Twitter handle, “Will submit to the majesty of law.”

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New Delhi: Convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan has been released by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

He has been in prison for more than 30 years under a life sentence.

Judge L. A bench headed by Nageswara Rao has ordered the release of Perarivalan in exercise of his human right under Section 142. He along with Murugan and Santhan convicted in the same case.

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New Delhi: Hearing a matter involving forest, the Supreme Court today observed that the environment “must prevail” over other rights and forests must be preserved.

Apex court while hearing a case involving non-forest land in Haryana, stressed upon need to preserve the forest and nature.

The Court observed that environment is more important than civil rights and it must prevail over all other rights.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition seeking action against political parties for luring voters in the assembly elections. A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice said the petitioner’s intentions were suspicious.

“This is a motivated petition. We feel there is a hidden agenda. Rather than raising the issue, petitioner has targeted only a few parties,” a Bench led by CJI NV Ramana told the petitioner’s advocate Barun Kumar Sinha.

The petitioner sought disqualification of all the candidates of SP and Congress in the UP assembly elections and AAP candidates in Punjab to disqualify for distributing freebies during elections.

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Chandigarh: Amid ongoing protest by farmers and blockage of some important roads connecting to NCR regions against farm laws, the Haryana Government has told the Supreme Court that it was making “sincere” efforts to remove the blockade for resumption of free flow of traffic.

“Sincere efforts are being taken to convince farmers to lift the blockage from highways and to resume traffic flow on those roads for the convenience of the general,” the Haryana Government said in an affidavit filed in the top court.

The government further said that regular meetings deliberations were being held by the administrations with farmers’ organisations to convince them to remove protest from roads.

” Astate-level committee headed by the Additional Chief Secretary was also formed and a meeting called by the government on September 19 meeting wasn’t attended by the farmers’ leaders.”

Earlier, the UP Government had also submitted in an affidavit and told the court that the government is making efforts to convince farmers to remove blocking from roads those causing grave inconvenience to commuters.

While hearing a petition, the Bench led by Justice SK Kaul had on August 23 asked the Centre and governments of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to find a solution to the blockade of roads.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would set up an expert committee to probe into alleged use of Israeli spyware Pegasus for mounting surveillance on Indian citizens.

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, while observing the case on Thursday, which had on September 13 reserved its order on petitions seeking an SIT probe into the allegations, said that inquiry would be conducted into the allegations that politicians, journalists and activists were snooped on using Pegasus spyware. The committee likely to be formed next week.

Justice Ramana informed senior advocate CU Singh about constitution of a committee during the hearing of an unconnected matter, who was presenting one the clients. “Please tell other lawyers too that we will pass our order next week,” the CJI told Singh.

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ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ : ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਨੇ ਝਾਰਖੰਡ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਧਨਬਾਦ ਦੇ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ ਅਤੇ ਵਧੀਕ ਜੱਜ (ਏਡੀਜੇ) ਉੱਤਮ ਆਨੰਦ ਦੀ ਹੱਤਿਆ ਦੇ ਮਾਮਲੇ ਦਾ ਗੰਭੀਰ ਨੋਟਿਸ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ। ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੇ ਚੀਫ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਐਨਵੀ ਰਮਨਾ ਦੇ ਬੈਂਚ ਨੇ ਝਾਰਖੰਡ ਦੇ ਮੁੱਖ ਸਕੱਤਰ ਅਤੇ ਡੀਜੀਪੀ ਤੋਂ ਇਕ ਹਫ਼ਤੇ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਇਸ ਮਾਮਲੇ ਵਿਚ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਕਾਰਵਾਈ ਬਾਰੇ ਸਥਿਤੀ ਰਿਪੋਰਟ ਮੰਗੀ ਹੈ।

ਐਸਸੀ ਬੈਂਚ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਰਾਜ ਦੇ ਮੁੱਖ ਸਕੱਤਰ ਅਤੇ ਡੀਜੀਪੀ ਝਾਰਖੰਡ ਵਿਚ ਅਦਾਲਤ ਦੇ ਅਹਾਤੇ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਅਤੇ ਬਾਹਰ ਅਮਨ-ਕਾਨੂੰਨ ਦੀ ਸਥਿਤੀ ਦਾ ਵੇਰਵਾ ਵੀ ਦੇਣਗੇ। ਹਾਲਾਂਕਿ, ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਨੇ ਸਪੱਸ਼ਟ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਝਾਰਖੰਡ ਹਾਈ ਕੋਰਟ ਦੀ ਕਾਰਵਾਈ ਵਿਚ ਦਖ਼ਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਦੇ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ। ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਦੇ ਚੀਫ਼ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਐਨਵੀ ਰਮਨਾ ਅਤੇ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਸੂਰਿਆ ਕਾਂਤ ਦੇ ਬੈਂਚ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਅਦਾਲਤ ਦੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਅਤੇ ਬਾਹਰ ਨਿਆਂਇਕ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ਵਕੀਲਾਂ ‘ਤੇ ਹਮਲਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਕਈ ਮਾਮਲੇ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਆਏ ਹਨ।

ਇਸ ਲਈ ਅਦਾਲਤ ਦੇਸ਼ ਵਿਚ ਨਿਆਂਇਕ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਦੇ ਵੱਡੇ ਮੁੱਦੇ ਨੂੰ ਹੱਲ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ। ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਬਾਰ ਐਸੋਸੀਏਸ਼ਨ ਦੇ ਮੁਖੀ ਵਿਕਾਸ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇ ਕੱਲ੍ਹ ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਤੋਂ ਜੱਜ ਦੇ ਕਤਲ ਕੇਸ ਦੀ ਸੀਬੀਆਈ ਜਾਂਚ ਦੀ ਮੰਗ ਕੀਤੀ ਸੀ। ਵਿਕਾਸ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇ ਅਦਾਲਤ ਵਿਚ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਨਿਆਂਪਾਲਿਕਾ ਸੁਤੰਤਰ ਹੋਣੀ ਚਾਹੀਦੀ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਨਿਆਂਇਕ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਅਤ ਹੋਣਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ।

ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਦੱਸ ਦਈਏ ਕਿ ਬੁੱਧਵਾਰ ਸਵੇਰੇ ਜਦੋਂ ਜੱਜ ਆਨੰਦ ਮਾਰਨਿੰਗ ਵਾਕ ‘ਤੇ ਸਨ ਤਾਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਣਬੁੱਝ ਕੇ ਇਕ ਆਟੋ ਨੇ ਟੱਕਰ ਮਾਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ, ਜਿਸ ਵਿਚ ਉਹ ਗੰਭੀਰ ਰੂਪ ਨਾਲ ਜ਼ਖਮੀ ਹੋ ਗਏ। ਬਾਅਦ ਵਿਚ ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਵਿਚ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਮੌਤ ਹੋ ਗਈ। ਘਟਨਾ ਦੀ ਸੀਸੀਟੀਵੀ ਫੁਟੇਜ ਆਉਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਇਹ ਸਪੱਸ਼ਟ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਕੋਈ ਦੁਰਘਟਨਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਬਲਕਿ ਕਤਲ ਸੀ। ਪੁਲਿਸ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਮਾਮਲੇ ਵਿਚ ਆਟੋ ਚਲਾ ਰਹੇ ਡਰਾਈਵਰ ਅਤੇ ਉਸਦੇ ਸਾਥੀ ਸਮੇਤ ਆਟੋ ਦੇ ਮਾਲਕ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰ ਕਰ ਲਿਆ ਹੈ।

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