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Supreme Court Directs Government to Create No-Fault Compensation Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events
Judgment addresses constitutional concerns over lack of compensation policy for vaccine-related injuries, emphasizes rig...
Admissibility of electronic evidence i.e. call detail records: - Certificate under Section 65-B is mandatory
Supreme Court Acquits Pooranmal in Rajasthan Murder Case, Cites Lack of Admissible Evidence, Supreme Court emphasizes th...
Relief of specific performance denied due to conduct and suppression of material facts from the Court
Supreme Court Denies Specific Performance in Disputed Property Sale Agreement, Supreme Court upholds High Court's decisi...
Supreme Court Grants Anticipatory Bail to Businessman in Spurious Liquor Case
Manoj Kumar Mutta, accused of supplying materials for counterfeit liquor production, secures bail as Supreme Court overt...
Supreme Court Upholds Bharti Telecom's Share Capital Reduction
Apex Court Dismisses Appeals Against Capital Reduction, Validates Valuation Methodology Including DLOM Application...
In landmark first, SC allows passive euthanasia for man in coma for over 13 years
Rashmi Nandakumar, the lawyer who represented the Ranas in the Supreme Court, told PTI over the phone that the family me...
Supreme Court strikes down Bihar law on heritage Patna library’s acquisition
The manner in which this power (of acquisition) is exercised is excessive, unreasoned and disproportionate to the stated...
With Harish Rana's right to die, SC settles passive euthanasia debate; activists hail good verdict
On January 24, 2023, a five-judge Constitution bench modified the 2018 guidelines to ease the process of granting passiv...
SC stays execution of death sentence awarded to man for murdering minor girl
"The superintendent of jail, central jail, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh shall submit a report with regard to the nature of wor...
Book row: SC says perturbed by NCERT's stand that chapter 'duly rewritten'
He said the chapter was drafted by textbook development team under the chairmanship of professor Michel Danino and consi...
SC urges Centre to enact comprehensive legislation on passive euthanasia
Such a vacuum creates the danger that decisions ostensibly grounded in compassion or clinical futility may, in reality, ...
Builders-banks nexus: SC pulls up CBI for probe, says homebuyers agony can't be prolonged
The bench said that all affected parties, including homebuyers, banks and builders, should submit their claims, suggesti...
NCERT row: SC takes exception to social media reactions of 'mischief mongers'
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi directed th...
SC hails Harish Rana's parents for selfless love, devotion towards son
In its first-ever order allowing passive euthanasia, the top court permitted the withdrawal of artificial life support t...
NCERT book row: Disassociate from authors of judiciary chapter, SC tells Centre, states
At the outset, we have no reason to doubt that professor Michel Danion and his associates Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasa...
SC nod for passive euthanasia: Harish Rana was a gymming, football enthusiast
His relatives and friends shared that he was extremely energetic, physically active, and deeply interested in games prio...
NCERT book row: SC directs Centre to form panel of domain experts to finalise legal studies course
The top court said that its orders in the matter were not intended to prevent any healthy and objective criticism of the...
In landmark first, SC allows passive euthanasia for man in coma for over 12 years
Ghaziabad's Harish Rana, who was a student of Panjab University, suffered head injuries after falling from the fourth fl...
Directed NCERT to review textbooks of all classes: Centre to SC
We have started systemic changes," he told the bench, adding that nothing will be published without being vetted by the ...
In landmark first, SC allows passive euthanasia for 32-year-old man in coma for over 12 years
Hearing the writ petition of Rana's family, the top court had earlier expressed its desire to meet the parents of the 32...
SC allows passive euthanasia for 32-year-old man in coma for over 12 years
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan directed AIIMS to grant admission in palliative care to Rana so th...
Frame no-fault compensation policy for serious adverse events after Covid vaccination: SC to Centre
In such a situation, the State cannot be heard to say that those who experience serious adverse consequences must fend f...
SC upholds Bharti Telecom’s share capital reduction
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran said that the valuation of shares is an expert exercise and that t...
SC to watch videos of Sonam Wangchuk's speeches, reserves order on his detention on Mar 17
Mehta had said that Wangchuk even referred to an Arab Spring-like agitation, which led to the overthrow of multiple gove...
Will summon defence, finance secretaries if decision not taken on benefits to disabled cadets: SC
Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati urged the bench to grant some more time to the ministries for taking a deci...
Telangana phone tapping case: SC grants anticipatory bail to former IPS T Prabhakar Rao
On December 19 last year, the apex court had extended till December 25 the police custody of Rao. The court had said Rao...
Pune Porsche accident: SC grants bail to minor's father in blood sample swapping case
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan granted bail to Vishal Agarwal, who is accused of hatching a conspir...
'Go sell some sweaters': SC junks AI-drafted PIL of Ludhiana cloth trader
The bench, also comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and R Mahadevan, became suspicious when Rajnish Sidhu, a hosiery tra...
Contamination in rivers in Raj: Public infra damaged because officers dragging their feet, says SC
The court was hearing a suo motu case concerning contamination in the Jojari river. It had also flagged the issue of con...
Pune Porsche accident: SC grants bail to minor's father in blood sample swapping case
The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) had granted bail to the minor accused on lenient terms, sparking nationwide outrage. Th...
WB SIR: SC orders setting up of tribunals to hear appeals against exclusions
The CJI, however, said that the chief justice of the high court will create an independent appellate forum consisting of...
Time for UCC: SC on plea seeking striking down of Shariat law provisions
At the outset, Bhushan submitted that the court can make a declaration that Muslim women are entitled to equal inheritan...
Comments on social media: SC grants anticipatory bail to folk singer Neha Singh Rathore
The said comments allegedly targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP in connection wit...
SC seeks Centre's response on plea challenging validity of rule on custody of animals
A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta agreed to hear the plea and issued notice to the Centre and others on ...
Supreme Court Quashes Criminal Proceedings Against In-Laws in Dowry Case
Allegations Deemed General and Omnibus; Proceedings Against Husband to Continue...
SC dismisses plea against holding of 'Kambala' outside two districts of Karnataka
If they want to showcase the culture in different parts of the state, what is wrong? Let people in other parts of the st...