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Why SC chose the SIT route to look into allegations against Reliance’s Vantara in Gujarat

The order came on two PILs filed in the wake of the shifting of an elephant named Mahadevi from a temple in Kolhapur to Vantara in July.

Latent apologies: Comedian Samay Raina cited ‘genuine social commitment’ in affidavit before SC

Supreme Court asks Samay Raina, Vipul Goyal, Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar, and Nishant Tanwar to apologise on YouTube, podcasts, & other platforms, too.

‘No further arrests’—SC relief to ex-BSP MLC Haji Iqbal’s sons. Family faces ’32 UP police cases’

The sons claim that every time they get bail, Uttar Pradesh police files new case to keep them languishing in jail. Iqbal also faces CBI, ED probe in sand mining cases. 

Meeting with CM yields no result, Delhi lawyers to press on with strike against L-G’s notification

Notification issued by Delhi L-G on 13 August designates all 226 police stations in Capital as venues from which police personnel could present evidence & virtually depose before courts.

SC Collegium clears Chief Justices of Bombay, Patna HCs for top court, no woman judge picked

Speaking at an event, Justice Oka hailed the legacy of dissenting judges in landmark cases, criticised terminology like 'lower courts', & raised concerns over delays in judicial appointments.

Punjab & Haryana HC Bar to vote on relocation from existing UNESCO heritage site to Sarangpur

The move was triggered by a PIL over acute space shortage, with Chief Justice-headed division bench ordering that no relocation can take place unless general body reaches a consensus.

‘Personal info’: Delhi HC quashes CIC order on PM Modi’s degree disclosure from DU

The court said educational qualifications fall within the ambit of ‘personal information’ under RTI & cannot be disclosed merely to ‘satisfy public curiosity’.

‘Strikes at core of informed consent’: Marriage voidable if marital history concealed, says Delhi HC

Four kinds of marriages are considered voidable under Hindu Marriage Act: voidable due to impotency, legal defects, defect of consent due to fraud, or pre-existing pregnancy by another spouse.

No service, no toll—why SC upheld HC order limiting NHAI from charging NH-544 users in 65-km stretch

Hearing NHAI's challenge to Kerala HC order last week, the top court underscored that statutory rights to collect tolls could not be divorced from performance of statutory duties.

Acquitted in 2002, convicted in 2024: Why SC quashed Punjab & Haryana HC order in 1998 murder case

Reiterating 'settled principles of law', SC held that interference with an acquittal is permissible only when the trial judge’s findings are 'perverse and impossible.

On Camera

Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim

The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.