The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a petition filed by Spice Jet Ltd against the Madras High Court order to wind up its operations, after it failed to make payment of over 24 million dollars to a Swiss maintenance company, on January 28.
Bihar came under total prohibition in April 2016. This was part of an abstemious chief minister’s social reform programme. He may as well have said: “Will no one rid me of these drinkers.” The government went into overdrive to get the state legislature enact a draconian law called the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016. Under this law, sentences are disproportionately harsh, police has power to arrest even people drinking privately at home, confiscate their properties and also detain all adults of the family present, including non-drinkers.
Supreme Court was hearing a petition preferred by Aditya Dubey a 17-year-old student from Delhi who had approached the apex court aggrieved by the deteriorating air quality in Delhi & NCR.
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its disappointment at the reports carried in certain segments of the press, depicting the Apex Court as a villain for its role in the closure of schools on account of the air pollution in Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the Future Group plea challenging the Delhi High Court's order dated October 29 that had rejected its plea for an interim stay on the Singapore Arbitration Tribunal order that declined to interfere with the Emergency Award restraining it from going ahead with the Reliance deal.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday has constituted the one-man commission which will be led by former Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to oversee the Uttar Pradesh's Special Investigation Team probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.