High Profile Cases Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde congratulated by Bar leaders. November 19, 2019 / November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Newly-appointed Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde on Monday sat on the dais in a courtroom with Chief Justice of Jamaica Bryan Sykes and senior-most Judge of Bhutan’s Supreme Court, Justice Kuenlay Tshering, a first for the head of the Indian apex court. Justice Bobde, 63, was administered the oath of office by President […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde Right to privacy Sharad Arvind Bobde
High Profile Cases Woman moves Bombay High Court for ban on TikTok. November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on video app TikTok for being a medium of “unfiltered sexual content, and harming youths of the country”. The petition was filed on November 11 by Mumbai-resident Heena Darvesh, a mother of three children. Copies of the PIL were […] Read more » ban on TikTok
High Profile Cases Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala opens for 2-month long pilgrimage season. November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid tight security, the gates of the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala were thrown open for the two-month long Mandala-Makaravilakku pilgrimage season Kandararu Mahesh Mohanararu opened the sanctum sanctorum of the temple at 5 pm, and performed the poojas, as hundreds of devotees from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and other neighbouring states thronged the shrine located […] Read more » Lord Ayyappa temple Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala Sabarimala temple
High Profile Cases Next CJI Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde part of historic verdicts like Ayodhya and Right to Privacy. November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, who would take oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India on Monday, has decided several key cases and was part of the recent historic verdict that cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Justice Bobde, 63, who would succeed CJI Ranjan […] Read more » CJI Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde
High Profile Cases Justice Ranjan Gogoi retires as CJI November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the first person from northeast to reach the top of judiciary and credited for bringing the curtains down on the decades old politically and religiously sensitive Ayodhya land dispute, retired as the chief justice of India on Sunday. Justice Gogoi’s tenure as judge and as CJI was marked by some controversies and […] Read more » Justice Ranjan Gogoi
High Profile Cases Nirbhaya gangrape: Delhi court admits parents’ plea seeking transfer of case to another judge November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi Court has admitted a plea filed by the parents of 2012-gangrape victim, seeking transfer of the case to another judge. The victim’s parents have sought court’s direction to Tihar Jail authorities to expedite the execution of the rape convicts. The court will hear the matter on November 25. They moved the application since […] Read more » 2012-gangrape victim Nirbhaya gangrape Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case sexual harassment case
High Profile Cases Outgoing CJI Gogoi declines requests for interviews and lauds media for maturity in trying times of Supreme Court. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Friday expressed his inability to have one-to-one interview with scribes and lauded the press for its “maturity” and “character” in preventing “canards and falsehood” in “trying times” of the judiciary. Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the […] Read more » CJI Dipak Misra Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph Madan B Lokur Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi Ranjan Gogoi
High Profile Cases Lawyer-police clash: HC grants interim protection from arrest to two cops November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court granted interim protection from arrest on Friday to two police officials who were booked in connection with the clash between lawyers and the police in Tis Hazari court earlier this month. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar sought responses of the Centre, the Delhi […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel clash between lawyers and the police in Tis Hazari court Delhi High Court Justice C Hari Shankar Lawyer-police clash
High Profile Cases Supreme Court on Ayodhya case: Temple at disputed site and to allot alternative land for mosque. November 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict on Saturday cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque. In one of the most important and most anticipated judgements in India’s […] Read more » allot alternative land for mosque Justice Ashok Bhushan Justice D Y Chandrachud Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice S Abdul Nazeer Justice S.A. Bobde Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya Supreme Court on Ayodhya case Temple at disputed site
High Profile Cases Disqualified Karnataka MLAs move Supreme Court for postponement of Dec 5 bypolls November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The disqualified Karnataka MLAs moved the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking further postponement of the Assembly bypolls which are scheduled to take place on December 5. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana on October 25 had reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions filed by the 17 MLAs, challenging their disqualification as […] Read more » disqualified Karnataka MLA
High Profile Cases CJI Gogoi to meet UP chief secretary and DGP to review law and order situation in UP. November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is likely to have a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police on Friday to assess the law and order arrangement in the state ahead of the verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case to be pronounced next week, sources said. The CJI has called […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi DGP Om Prakash Singh Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute Ranjan Gogoi UP Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court to hear in Feb plea for action against police officials for protesting against clash with lawyers November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said it will hear in February a plea seeking action against police officials who were agitating in public and sitting on ‘dharna’ after their November 2 clash with lawyers at the Tis Hazari Courts Complex. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar refused […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel clash with lawyers Commissioner Amulya Patnaik Delhi High Court Deputy Inspector General of police of Arunachal Pradesh Madhur Verma former Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police Aslam Khan Justice C Hari Shankar Superintendent of Police of NIA Sanjukta Prashar and IPS officer Meghna Yadav Tis Hazari Courts Complex.
