Article 142

Compassion and sympathy have no role to play where rule of law is required to be enforced, the Supreme Court said on Monday while refusing to accept the plea of protection of the liberty of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case.

The Supreme Court Wednesday commenced hearing arguments to decide broad parameters for exercising its vast powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to dissolve marriages between consenting couples without referring them to family courts.

Article 142 of the Constitution, which grants the Supreme Court special powers, wasinvoked twice by the five-judge Constitution bench while delivering the landmark verdict in the Ayodhya title suit on Saturday. The court said in view of the evidence, the disputed 2.77 acres of land was awarded for a temple, but it invoked the Article 142 to grant 5...

The Supreme Court has ordered dissolution of a marriage of a couple, living separately for 22 years and failing to reconcile their differences. The court termed the marriage "unworkable, emotionally dead, beyond salvage and broken down irretrievably".

Compassion and sympathy have no role to play where rule of law is required to be enforced, the Supreme Court said on Monday while refusing to accept the plea of protection of the liberty of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case.

The Supreme Court Wednesday commenced hearing arguments to decide broad parameters for exercising its vast powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to dissolve marriages between consenting couples without referring them to family courts.

Article 142 of the Constitution, which grants the Supreme Court special powers, wasinvoked twice by the five-judge Constitution bench while delivering the landmark verdict in the Ayodhya title suit on Saturday. The court said in view of the evidence, the disputed 2.77 acres of land was awarded for a temple, but it invoked the Article 142 to grant 5...

The Supreme Court has ordered dissolution of a marriage of a couple, living separately for 22 years and failing to reconcile their differences. The court termed the marriage "unworkable, emotionally dead, beyond salvage and broken down irretrievably".