The Supreme Court on Friday (October 6) admitted a PIL by Rishi Malhotra, asking for the death by hanging sentence to be changed to more scientific and less painful methods while giving capital punish...
Above: Mahatma Gandhi. Photo: www.biography.com
PIL claims that an organization was involved in the killing of the Mahatma
A petition to reopen and reinvestigate the assassination of Mahatma Gan...
Former AIADMK head-honcho and the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s confidante VK Sasikala was on Friday (October 6) granted a five-day parole to visit her ailing husband M Natarajan, wh...
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking the use of VVPAT with EVMs in the by-elections in Gurdaspur in Punjab and Vengara in Kerala. The appellant wanted a paper trail of all votes cast.
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A PIL has been filed with the Supreme Court by Ashwani Upadhyay, a lawyer at the apex court, asking for a ban on candidates contesting election from two seats simultaneously.
The petitioner says th...
Above: A protest at Jantar Mantar. Photo: Anil Shakya
The iconic Jantar Mantar area of New Delhi will henceforth only be a tourist attraction and not a traditional centre for protests. The National...
Reacting to a PIL filed by the All India Drug Action Network, the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud on Thursday (October 5) directed Addi...
The National Green Tribunal’s principal bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar on Thursday (October 5) warned that all illegal structures within the demarcated area on the Yamuna floodplains will hav...
Above: The Yamuna wetlands. Photo: Anil Shakya
The scope of a PIL filed before the Supreme Court seeking protection of wetlands had already been widened by the apex court in 2009-2010 to include al...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar said on Thursday (October 5) that Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site should no more be treated as a landfill site following the cl...