Supreme Court Verdict

Not all privately owned properties qualify as community resources that the State can take over for the common good, the Supreme Court said in a landmark verdict today.

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on November 5 the verdict on pleas challenging the Allahabad High Court judgement, which declared the 2004 Uttar Pradesh law on madrasas as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's verdict that had stopped insolvency proceedings against embattled ed-tech firm Byju's.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that state governments can legislate on the sale of 'industrial alcohol', otherwise called 'denatured spirits', by including it under the term 'intoxicating liquor' in the State List.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which recognised the Assam Accord, but one of the judges of the bench gave a dissenting judgment.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji, who has been in jail since June 2023 in connection with the alleged cash-for-jobs scam.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected telecom companies' plea to re-compute adjusted gross revenues, or AGRs, amid a long-standing dispute over payment of dues to the government.

Former Delhi deputy chief minister and Mr Kejriwal's close aide Manish Sisodia said the decision marked truth's victory over "lies and conspiracies."

Mathura Land Dispute Case: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Muslim petitioners' challenge to last month's Allahabad High Court verdict that allowed 15 suits, including those filed by the Krishna Janmabhoomi deity, to stand.

The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) verdict which directed the closure of a garbage processing plant at Pune's Baner, saying shutting it down would be "detrimental" to the public interest.

Shashi Tharoor on Monday sought an urgent hearing in Supreme Court on his plea against a Delhi High Court verdict refusing to quash defamation proceedings against him on a complaint over his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remarks targeting PM Modi.

A bandh to protest the Supreme Court's 'quota within a quota' decision about quota in state government jobs and colleges for SC and ST candidates was held in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and other states Wednesday.

The Supreme Court today set aside an order of the Calcutta High Court in which it acquitted an accused in a sexual assault case and made "objectionable" observations advising adolescent girls to "control sexual urges".

Not all privately owned properties qualify as community resources that the State can take over for the common good, the Supreme Court said in a landmark verdict today.

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on November 5 the verdict on pleas challenging the Allahabad High Court judgement, which declared the 2004 Uttar Pradesh law on madrasas as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's verdict that had stopped insolvency proceedings against embattled ed-tech firm Byju's.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that state governments can legislate on the sale of 'industrial alcohol', otherwise called 'denatured spirits', by including it under the term 'intoxicating liquor' in the State List.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, which recognised the Assam Accord, but one of the judges of the bench gave a dissenting judgment.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji, who has been in jail since June 2023 in connection with the alleged cash-for-jobs scam.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected telecom companies' plea to re-compute adjusted gross revenues, or AGRs, amid a long-standing dispute over payment of dues to the government.

Former Delhi deputy chief minister and Mr Kejriwal's close aide Manish Sisodia said the decision marked truth's victory over "lies and conspiracies."

Mathura Land Dispute Case: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Muslim petitioners' challenge to last month's Allahabad High Court verdict that allowed 15 suits, including those filed by the Krishna Janmabhoomi deity, to stand.

The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) verdict which directed the closure of a garbage processing plant at Pune's Baner, saying shutting it down would be "detrimental" to the public interest.

Shashi Tharoor on Monday sought an urgent hearing in Supreme Court on his plea against a Delhi High Court verdict refusing to quash defamation proceedings against him on a complaint over his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remarks targeting PM Modi.

A bandh to protest the Supreme Court's 'quota within a quota' decision about quota in state government jobs and colleges for SC and ST candidates was held in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and other states Wednesday.

The Supreme Court today set aside an order of the Calcutta High Court in which it acquitted an accused in a sexual assault case and made "objectionable" observations advising adolescent girls to "control sexual urges".