NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Centre to re-examine the sedition law and sought government’s response to a suggestion that registering of new cases under the colonial-era law be put on hold till the review exercise is over. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana expressed concern over Sec 124A … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that in deference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s views, the government will go for a comprehensive reconsideration of the sedition provision, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, for necessary pruning and provisioning of safeguards to curb misuse and requested the court to defer scrutiny … Read more
NEW DELHI: Contending that the apex court’s six decades old verdict upholding validity of Section 124 A is a good law and balances constitutional rights and principles viz. needs of the State, the centre told the Supreme Court on Saturday there was no need to re-examine the judgement and opposed scrapping of the sedition provision … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday defended the sedition law in front of the Supreme Court and said that “individual instances of misuse of Section 124A cannot be a ground for reconsideration of the law”. It further told the SC that the 1962 verdict of the top court in Kedar Nath Singh vs State of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The three-member Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday signed its final order on the restructuring of assembly seats in the Union territory, a day before its term was to end, an EC spokesperson told. The Delimitation Commission headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai and having chief election commissioner … Read more
MUMBAI: Maharashtra state remained largely peaceful on Wednesday amid MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s call to play the Hanuman Chalisa in front of mosques if the azan was played on loudspeakers. Preventive action by Maharashtra Police, including detention of key MNS functionaries across the state, ensured there were no law and order issues, barring a few … Read more
NEW DELHI: After a hiatus of over two years during which Covid-19 disrupted the Supreme Court’s normal functioning, it will resume in July hearing a batch of petitions challenging the scrapping of J&K’s special status under Article 370 and its bifurcation into UTs. On mention by senior advocates Shekhar Naphade and P Chidambaram for urgent … Read more
NEW DELHI: The submission of the Union home secretary that Abu Salem’s appeal against his conviction be first decided on merit and not the issue of honouring of the Centre’s assurance to Portugal for not keeping him in jail for more than 25 years as it will arise only in 2030, drew the ire of … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former three-time PM Nawaz Sharif is returning to the country after Eid to voluntarily face the judicial process in all cases against him, federal minister and PML-N leader Javed Latif said on Wednesday. He also revealed that PPP had named the party’s chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for the vacant foreign minister’s berth and that … Read more