Supreme Court JudgesConstitution BenchesConstitutional JurisprudenceQuantitative AnalysisSupreme Court CaseloadConstitution benches have been vital to the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence. However, the number of these benches has fallen since the 1960s leading to a rNick Robinson...
NEW DELHI, April 21 (Xinhua) -- India's Supreme Court said Friday that it can not order the British government to return the famous Kohinoor diamond or stop its auction. Disposing of a petition, the judges said no court in India can pass a direction with regard to auctioning of a prope...
The judges of these courts are appointed by the central executive in accordance with the advice of chief justice himself and this mechanism for maintaining this independence was ensured after the landmark judgment in Supreme Court Advocate’s On Record v. Union Of India[5] case. Once appointed,...
Chidambaram, who appeared for the BSP, told judges that despite the Supreme Court's order in 2013, EVMs with paper trails have not been used for elections, which creates a serious doubt about the accuracy of voting. "There is no way that a voter can verify as to whether the vote cast ...
After review petitions against Koushal were rejected, curative petitions were filed, the final legal resort. In February this year, Supreme Court judges decided that this was a matter of constitutional importance and to set up a five-judge-bench to reconsider the matter. Since Koushal there has ...
One of the two judges, Justice Rajiv Shakdher, wanted to strike down an exception in India's rape law that says a husband cannot be charged with raping his wife. He argued that it violates the constitutional guarantees of equality, freedom, and liberty. ...
copy of a Full Court Resolution (the “Resolution”) that had been passed in May 1997 which prescribed that every judge should make a declaration of assets held in their names or in the name of their spouse to the CJI. The application also asked if judges had complied with the Resolution...
However, the apex court said in its ruling Tuesday that it is pointless to "perpetuate a purposeless marriage and to prolong the agony of the parties," and made it clear it will be upto individual judges to waive off the mandatory six-month wait for couples seeking divorce. ...
Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958: The Central Government recently amended the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958.The government has amended the original Supreme Court Judges Rules of 1959 in exercise of powers conferred on it ...
"Seldom does society care or know the mental andpsychological trauma... (that) judges undergo, especially when they are called upon to decide an issue touching human life, either to save or take away," the order read. Saba and Farah Saleem, who are mostly bed-ridden, hail from a poor ...