Justice U.U. Lalit, who was elevated from the Bar to the SC as a judge in 2014, will have a short tenure of 74 days but hopes are high he will hear key constitutional matters.
‘A citizens’ judge’, an ‘excellent karta of the bar’, ‘well balanced’, say top lawyers at Ramana’s farewell; Attorney General says this is hardly any age for SC judges to retire.
Hearing appeal against Himachal HC order, SC bench said judgments must make sense to litigants whose lives they affect, and incoherent orders impact dignity of judicial institutions.
The petitioner had alleged that Yogi Adityanath made anti-Muslim hate remarks while addressing ‘Hindu Yuva Vahini’ activists in a meeting held in Gorakhpur on 27 January 2007.
SC in 2013 held that promises of freebies in election manifestos are not bribery or corruption. CJI NV Ramana agrees to constitute a bench to re-examine the judgment.
Ramana's legacy includes an increase in judicial appointments and important interventions including suspension of sedition law. But no Constitution Bench matter was heard in his tenure.
Representation signed by 65 legal professionals urges CAG to probe allegations since it involves 'misuse of public funds & assets by Telangana govt, overlooking procedure & propriety'.
A 3-judge bench led by CJI NV Ramana observed that the question is 'whether the convicts could have been granted remission & if it was within parameters of law'.
Top court says two issues needed reconsideration-- the aspect of not providing the ECIR or complaint to the accused, and the reversal of presumption of innocence.
Court quashed criminal prosecution & confiscation for benami transactions entered into before 2016 Act came into force. It also said the Act's 1998 predecessor was 'merely a shell'.
Macaulay's intent was quite different from what has been propagated by Indian leaders and public intellectuals, who love to live in their own sectarian mental chambers.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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