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While hearing Arvind Kejriwal's plea challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 in the Delhi Liquor Policy case, the Supreme Court today said that it cannot treat the Delhi Chief Minister as a habitual offender.The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was considering the issue of granting Kejriwal interim bail when it expressed disapproval with. …

Electoral Bonds Put A Premium On Opacity, Have Serious Deficiencies; Do It In A Proportional Manner: Supreme Court Tells Union [Day 3]

On the final day of arguments in the case pertaining to the Electoral Bonds Scheme case, the Supreme Court asked the Union Government if it was planning to amend the Companies Act to reintroduce a profit percentage-based limit on donations by Companies. Scheme Has Sufficient Safeguards: SG Mehta SG highlighted that the objective of the Electoral Bonds Scheme was to …

Economic Backwardness Can Be Temporary, Other Forms Of Backwardness Attached To Lineage : Supreme Court Says During EWS Case Hearing [Day 6]

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench, comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala, on Thursday, continued hearings on the cases challenging the constitutional validity of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. This would be my quintessential submission, that a constitutional amendment may even touch upon a basic structure, hypothetically, but …

FIFA's Ban on AIFF: Acting Secretary to Lead Day-to-day Management of AIFF; SC Scraps CoA

Acting Secretary General Sunando Dhar shall lead the administration and day-to-day management of the AIFF exclusively as the Supreme Court scrapped the Committee of Administrators it had instilled to run the football body of India. But FIFA suspended AIFF after citing the role of the Coa as a third-party intervention, something that the world football?s governing body doesn?t tolerate. Solicitor …

PM security breach: MHA issues show-cause notice to Bathinda SSP, asks to reply within a day

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Days after the alleged security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Punjab visit, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday issued a show-cause notice to the Bathinda Senior Superintendent of Police, asking him to submit his reply within a day, sources have said. Archana Varma, Deputy Secretary to the Centre, has stated in the letter that "since there was grave …

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Monday while addressing Supreme Court's Bench led by Justice NV Ramana urged the Court to demarcate lines upto which the Court can be assisted by Amicus. "I request Your Lordships to demarcate lines upto which the Court can be assisted by Amicus. We've been seeing this for decades" SG Mehta submitted.SG Mehta also said "I'm …

Supreme Court has on Wednesday allowed request of Senior Superintendent of Police Mahesh Bhardwaj in the NHRC seeking discharge from the SIT formed to investigate alleged fake encounters in Manipur A three judge Bench led by Justice Ramana has allowed the officer to he discharged to his parent department to join on his promoted post, and has directed the Centre …