A judge with an enviable track record of landmark judgments and minority dissent opinions, Justice Chandrachud is expected to lead the judiciary along the unbeaten track. An assessment of some of his important verdicts
In November, Javed Akhtar had filed the defamation case against Ranaut for the remarks she made about him during a TV interview while speaking about actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Ranaut had reportedly told Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami that Akhtar was part of SSR suicide gang.
Akhtar accused Ranaut of damaging his reputation by falsely attributing statements against him in an interview to Republic TV Editor-anchor Arnab Goswami, on July 19, 2020, soon after actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death
Referring to the Bhajan Lal case, Justice Shinde observed, “if the petitioner's case falls under any of the categories, we need not wait for the completion of the investigation".
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the batch of petitions seeking to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against stand-up comic Kunal Kamra over his derogatory tweets against the Supreme Court for granting bail to Republic TV Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami by four weeks.