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"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid": A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petitions challenging the Central government's 2016 decision to demonetise currency notes of ₹1,000 and ₹500
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The Court held that there was a reasonable nexus to bring such a measure, and that demonetisation was not hit by the doctrine of proportionality
“A bench of Justices chosen through collegium got to choose to decide who has the better lawyer”: Karnataka government supports High Court verdict upholding marital rape charges against husband which is another stark violation of human rights
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Case was not one challenging constitutional validity of exception under Sec 375. But what was not an offence at time of its commission cannot be termed as an offence by way of an interpretive process
"Freedom is whatever the Court says it is, pending revision": Kiren Rijiju in Rajya Sabha, "Until we create a new system for Appointment of Judges, issue of Judicial Vacancies will continue to arise which is a big reason for the huge pendency of cases"
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The Minister was speaking in the Rajya Sabha in answer to the question put up by Congress leader Rajeev Shukla
"If it were not for injustice, man would not know justice": Supreme Court stayed arrest of the resigned principal of Indore's Government New Law College, Dr Inamur Rahman, in an FIR registered over "Hinduphobic" book in the college library
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The ABVP has been levelling allegations of “Hindu hate” and “anti-India propaganda” against the college’s Muslim professors since December 1, which led Prof Rehman to resign
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please": SC grants bail to life convict Farooq who pelted stone at burning Godhra Train in 2002 & prevented Hindus inside train from escaping from fire, CJI Chandrachud ~ "It has been 17 long years"
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Last month, CJI Chandrachud led bench had extended bail for Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid, a convict who co-conspired in carrying out the Godhra Train Carnage, on account of his wife suffering from Cancer
"Justice delayed is justice denied": Public servant can be held guilty under Prevention of Corruption Act based on circumstantial evidence: Supreme Court, 'mere acceptance of an illegal gratification without anything more would not make it an offence'
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The Court said that the demand and acceptance of bribe can also be proved by circumstantial evidence in the absence of direct oral or documentary evidence
"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air": Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud urged parliament to revise the age of consent for sex under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, saying this provision poses difficulties for judges
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CJI DY Chandrachud says there is a growing concern about the age of consent for sex under POCSO, recently two high courts declared the marriage of Muslim girls invalid under POCSO even though it is allowed under Muslim Personal Law
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered”: MoP issue settled; government cannot conveniently cite views of few judges on MoP to oppose Collegium recommendations, scheme of our constitution requires court to be final arbiter of law ~ Supreme Court
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The apex court emphasised that the government cannot conveniently pick and choose opinions of judges or judicial opinions of benches of lesser strength to delay Collegium recommendations
“Talking about justice, doing injustice is indeed unfair conduct and hypocrisy”: HC grants divorce citing cruelty by wife who taunted polio-stricken husband's disability, snatched his crutches, manhandled & threw him around, orders man to pay 25L alimony
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However, while leaving, the wife cleverly and secretly took all the gold ornaments and cash lying in the house without telling the husband, and since then she had been living at her parental house
"Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer": Bengaluru Eng student Faiz Rasheed sentenced to a 5 year jail term for celebrating Pulwama terrorist attack on Facebook, said more such attacks needed to free Kashmir and asked "how is the khauf"
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Rasheed, who was a 3rd-year student of Electronics & Communications Engineering, was arrested in 2019 from a bakery near his house. Rashid is a resident of HRBR layout in eastern Bengaluru