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Justice VM Pancholi: From Gujarat’s courtrooms to Patna HC & now in line to be India’s 60th CJI

While at Gujarat HC, Justice Pancholi presided over defamation case against Rahul Gandhi. He also allowed termination of six-week pregnancy of 17-yr-old rape survivor.

RJD moves SC seeking extension of Bihar SIR deadline. ‘Electors erroneously deleted would be left out’

RJD said the limited booth-level agents need more time to reach all voters. BLAs are identifying voters whose names aren't on the draft electoral roll to help them file claims.

Can states move court against Centre under Article 32 or 131? Closer look as President seeks SC’s view

A bench has been constituted to decide presidential reference under Article 143(1), which allows President to consult SC on questions of law or matters of public importance.

‘Application of mind not proportionate to number of pages’—Why SC has expressed ‘anguish’ at NGT 

NGT is a specialised statutory body set up by Parliament in 2010 for hearing matters relating to environmental protection and forest conservation.

2015 Ambur riots: Tamil Nadu court convicts 22, acquits 106 over insufficient evidence

71 cops were injured in the violence that stemmed from an alleged custodial death. The court ordered Rs 10 lakh for 2 injured cops and Rs 1 lakh each for witnesses.

Merely publishing names of picks won’t make judicial appointments transparent—SC ex-judge Justice Oka

New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Abhay S. Oka, who demitted office in May this year does not support the view that transparency...

2 convicts acquitted in minor’s 2012 rape-murder. How SC shredded ‘shabby’ probe by UP police

Top court overturned trial court & HC order on conviction of the two, one of whom was on death row, calling the case a 'classic example of lacklustre & shabby investigation'.

TN’s flagpole dispute & the question of ‘democratic expression’—how courts have viewed the matter so far

The issue saw a dramatic twist Monday as SC ordered status quo, within weeks of upholding an HC order directing removal of political flagpoles across the state.

Why HC pulled up Army, Centre for ‘playing with facts’ to refuse regular jobs to Military Farms workers

Punjab & Haryana HC criticised Army, Centre for denying regularisation to petitioners, who had been serving at Military Farms for over 30 yrs, on ‘premise of false facts’.

Why former SC, HC judges are criticising ‘prejudicial’ reading of 2011 Salwa Judum judgment

Statement was issued in response to Amit Shah’s criticism of judgment by two-judge bench which included Justice B Sudershan Reddy, now the Oppn’s candidate for Vice President.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.