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's Collegium headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana and also comprising of Justices Uday Umesh Lalit, A M Khanwilkar, Dr DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao has recommended names of 13 advocates for elevation as the judges of the Allahabad High Court.
A single bench while hearing a petition filed by Surinder Singh observed that the Petitioner could not be prosecuted for the commission of the said offence and convicted under section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the early hearing of application challenging the constitutional validity of the Presidential order, which amended and rendered the provisions of Article 370 inoperative, stripping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Delhi High Court bench queried, if People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti had appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in compliance with the summons issued by the agency, to which Nitya Ramakrishnan, senior counsel for Mufti, responded in the affirmative.
The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian were hearing a PIL challenging the detention of the Rohingya refugees