Court News Updates

The SC-monitored technical committee investigating the allegations of illegal spying done by the Central government using Israel spyware Pegasus, has put up an 11-point questionnaire before the public, seeking their views on the security and privacy of people, latest by March 31.

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a petition filed by Subhash Chandra Srivastava And 10 Others stayed the declaration of the result of the U.P Higher Education Services Commission (UPHESC) Assistant Professor of Chemistry recruitment examination.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea by NEET-MDS 2022 aspirants seeking postponement of the examination i.e. National Eligibility Entrance Test – Master of Dental Surgery Entrance Examination 2022 in view of the incomplete one year compulsory internship, which is a pre- requisite/ eligibility criterion for the said examinations, owing to extenuating circumstances caused by the Covid–19 pandemic. 

The Central government on Friday mentioned a plea before the Supreme Court against forceful eviction of top government officials from the Lutyens zone residential complexes with the help of 'bouncers,' calling the whole episode as 'unfortunate'. 

Supreme Court orally allows petitioner to withdraw plea challenging the legal validity of PM CARES Fund and approach the Allahabad High Court by way of a review petition.

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the Reserve Bank of India’s stand on a plea that various banks and financial institutions had extended huge loans to certain group of companies without due scrutiny. 

The Supreme Court bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and M.R. Shah has allowed jailed Preeti Chandra, the wife of Unitech promoter Sanjay Chandra, a day to attend the funeral ceremony of her grandmother.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir's SLP against Kashmiri MBBS student Mubashir Ashraf Bhat, who had taken an education loan to study medicine at a community college but changed her college subsequently. The UT had approached the Apex Court against the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Division Bench which had ruled in the student's favour.

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a review petition against conviction of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a road rage case, in which a man had died.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the petition filed against the Gujarat government's decision to redevelop Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.