A division Bench of Supreme Court comprising of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud had in 2017 declined urgent hearing on the plea seeking release of the ill-fated Uphaar Theatre, observing that there is no urgency in the matter.
The Chief Justice in her address stated that there are several areas in both the Union Territories that which face extreme and sudden changes in the weather, remain cut-off and inaccessible for months due to their topography leaving the people living those areas unable to approach the courts.
The Court said that they believe that 'those caught without masks should be sent 10-15 days to do non-medical service at Covid Care Center along with their penalties instead of being released after the punishment. If strict rules are brought, people will follow the rule of wearing masks.
The three-judge bench of the Chief Justice S. A. Bobde and Justices A. S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian is hearing a petition filed by a class 12 student Aditya Dubey, seeking direction to the Punjab and Haryana governments to ban stubble burning.
Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar wrote to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court yesterday, requesting him to have a re-look at the sustainability of continuing physical hearings in view of the incessant increase in the cases of COVID-19 in the national capital and surrounding areas.
The Delhi High Court today issued a notice on a petition filed by Mehul Choksi, challenging the order of a single judge bench dismissing his petition seeking a preview of Netflix’s ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’.
The Supreme Court today dismissed as infructuous a plea seeking an in-house probe into alleged acts of "commission and omission" by former CJI Ranjan Gogoi during his tenure as Supreme Court judge.
Lawyers from across the country, including some very senior lawyers of the Supreme Court, have written a letter to the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, expressing outrage at the jailing of a violent gang-rape victim and her two caregivers by a magistrate at the Araria district court.
Justice PR Ramachandran, Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, has sent Rs 10,000 to a lawyer, who has been forced to go back to his village and weave baskets for a living, being out of work due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
Aastha Khanna, a law student of Delhi University has written a scathing letter to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Justice DN Patel, urging the court to safeguard the rights of the students in view of the government’s order to conduct final year examinations of students in universities.