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A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court has referred to a five-judge Constitution bench the issue whether the candidates selected from the general category can be allowed to be considered from the reserved categories of OBCs/SC/ST at the time of service allocation.br..

Gujarat High Court dismissed a Public Interest Petition, filed by Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Kisan Dal (RKD), challenging the state government’s decision of allotting agriculture land to set up Tata Motors Nano Car Project in Sanand taluka of Ahmedabad District. Dismissing the PIL, a Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice R K Radhakrishnan and Justice Aquil Qureshi,..

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Kerala Government on its decision to raise the income ceiling for the 'creamy layer' among OBCs from Rs 2.5 lakh t..

President Pratibha Patil will meet with former Attorney General Ashok Desai on Saturday evening to consult on formation of government. p styl..

Chief Justice (CJ) K G Balakrishnan today administered oath of office to two new judges of the Supreme Court. Justice Deepak Verma has been elevated from Rajasthan High Court to the Supreme Court while Justice B S Chauhan has been promoted from Orissa High Court. Justice Verma was the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High court while Justice Chauhan was the..

  THE Supreme Court has ruled that the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has no discretionary power to interfere with orders passed by capital market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi). Allowing Sebis plea, the court said the tribunal has to do what is prescribed under the statute. "When something is to be done statutorily in a ..

 The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R K Raghavan today held a closed-door meeting with Gujarat High Court's Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan to discuss setting up of six fast track courts, as per the directives of the apex court, to take up cases of the 2002 riots in the state. Mr Raghavan, a former CBI chief heading the SIT to re-investi..

 Four senior judicial officers -- Ajit Bharihoke, Supreme Court Secretary-General V K Jain, Indermeet Kaur Kochhar and Anil Kumar Pathak will be sworn in as Judges of the Delhi High Court. After President Pratibha Singh Patil has cleared their names the warrant of appointment was issued. The Delhi High Court Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah is likel..

Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma has pleaded that those holding constitutional posts like Election Commissioner or Supreme Court judges should not be given post-retirement assignments by the government at least for the next 10 years.The former CJI in Walk the Talk show on a TV channel, anchored by Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, also disapproved a ..

Election Commissioner V S Sampath on Monday said that he supported an elector's right not to vote but this would have to be given shape through a legislation.   ..

The Special Leave Petition, challenging the conferment of cabinet status on three Goan politicians, is likely to come for hearing by the Supreme Court tomorrow.Social activist and advocate Aires Rodrigues had filed the SLP challenging the order of the High Court of Bombay at Goa that did not set aside the government appointments.He sought gr..

The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that candidates belonging to the reserved category cannot be given relaxation in the mandatory work experience required for a government job. A Bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Suresh Kait held that the apex court ruling pertaining to giving relaxation in the minimum marks required for government jobs do not extend to work experience. "It is tota..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday asked the media not to interpret courts' judgements, observing it leads to "distortion" of facts. "Very often it has been observed that media reports project a distorted version of the facts and the judgements delivered by the courts," Balakrishnan said. Addressing a workshop on "Reporting on court proceeding on media and administration of ..

The Supreme Court has ruled that it is necessary to get the caste certificates of all the elected persons from reserved constituencies in the country examined within a time frame to avoid any controversies. A bench comprising Justices Tarun Chatterjee and V S Sirpurkar while allowing the appeal of Kurapati Maria Das, the chairperson of Bapatla Municipal Council, Andhra Pradesh, said, ‘it is nec..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court registered a contempt of court case against the state principle secretary and commissioner for higher education and government counsel for challenging a petition in a case of providing recognition and no objection certificate to a paramedical college. Hearing the petition, filed by Swayam Prabha Institute of Para-Medical Technology here, Justices R S Garg and Ume..