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New Delhi: Three academicians engaged by NCERT as experts - Prof Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar - whom the Supreme Court banned for life "for projecting a negative image of judiciary" by mentioning about corruption in judiciary in a Class 8 textbook, approached the apex court Monday seeking a review of the order. "Class 6 and Class 7 textbooks do deal with issues... faced by legislature, Election Commission and the executive... We want to show the processes that have been ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Nearly 27 lakh of the 60 lakh whose claims for inclusion in West Bengal's electoral roll were put in the "doubtful" category during the special intensive revision exercise may not be able to vote in the ensuing assembly polls, with judicial officers overseeing adjudication rejecting their claims. The electoral roll for the Bengal assembly polls' first phase - scheduled for April 23 - was to be frozen by Monday midnight. Supreme Court, which was informed of the final deletions by the C ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday was told that about 55% people of the 60 lakh people whose names were removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal stand excluded even after adjudication of claims and objections by judicial officers deployed for the special intensive revision (SIR) in the state. The submission was made before a three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipin Pancholi during the resumed hearing of pleas challe ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to stay the implementation of Adani Group's ₹14,500-crore debt resolution plan for debt-laden Jaiprakash Associates (JAL). A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said it didn't see any reason to interfere with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) interim order allowing the implementation of the resolution plan, a decision challenged by Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta. Noting that Vedanta's appeal is now listed for final hearing on April 10 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday rejected the opposition's impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.It was the first time a notice seeking the removal of the Election Commission chief was issued with the signature of 130 Lok Sabha MPs and 63 Rajya Sabha members.The 10-page impeachment motion accused Gyanesh Kumar of seven counts. The charges ranged from partisan conduct of the CEC to mass disenfranchisement of voters in different states. This ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the monitoring committee or any concerned stakeholder from taking any major policy decision regarding the implementation of the resolution plan for the takeover of bankrupt Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) without prior approval of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also requested the NCLAT to hear Vedanta's plea on ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe into the incident in West Bengal's Malda district, where seven judicial officers deputed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly held hostage for several hours at a BDO office in Kaliachowk. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, while hearing a suo motu writ petition registered in the wa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the monitoring committee or any concerned stakeholder from taking any major policy decision regarding the implementation of the resolution plan for the takeover of bankrupt Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) without prior approval of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also requested the NCLAT to hear Vedanta's plea on ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The three academicians who formed part of the Textbook Development Team behind the controversial "Corruption in Judiciary" sub-chapter in the Class Eighth NCERT Social Science textbook informed the Supreme Court on Monday that they have filed their response (explanation) in compliance with the Court's earlier order. Senior Advocates Gopal Sankarnarayanan, Aravind Datar and J. Sai Deepak, representing the three expert author-cum-academics - Suparna Diwakar, Mich ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over cases related to the gherao of seven judicial officers in Malda, observing that the bureaucracy's credibility was being lowered and politics was being injected into the West Bengal secretariat and government offices. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi exercised its plenary power under Article 142 of the Constitution to transfer around ...Read More >
New Delhi: Three academics, barred from contributing their expertise after a controversy over an NCERT textbook chapter containing "offending" content on corruption in the judiciary, moved the Supreme Court on Monday to clarify their position. They stressed that the content was drafted collectively, with no single individual exercising sole authority. The matter came up for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. The counsel representing ...Read More >
Raipur: Amit Jogi, former MLA and son of late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2003 murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ram Avtar Jaggi by the Chhattisgarh high court. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma in its order on April two has convicted him in the high-profile murder case. The order was posted on the website of the Chhattisgarh High Court on Monday. The trial court had convict ...Read More >
Bilaspur, April 6 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court came down heavily on Amit Jogi, son of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, accusing him of adopting "deliberate dilatory tactics" to stall proceedings in the high-profile Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case. While the high court convicted Amit Jogi for conspiracy to murder Jaggi in 2003, the 75-page judgment shows how the accused attempted to push the legal system to the brink in order to stall justice. A copy of the order passed on April 2 was made ava ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the West Bengal chief secretary for "not taking calls of Calcutta high court chief justice" over the Malda incident and asked him to apologise.Taking strong exception to the attack on judicial officers adjudicating objections to voter list exclusions in West Bengal's Malda district, the Supreme Court on Thursday said there was a breakdown of law and order in the state and issued show-cause notices to the chief secretary, DGP, district magistrate a ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The three academics, who were barred from offering their expertise following the row over an NCERT book chapter containing "offending" contents on corruption in the judiciary, approached the Supreme Court on Monday to explain their stand, saying no individual had the sole say in the drafting of the content and it was a collective process. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was told that the three experts -- Professor Michel Danion and his asso ...Read More >
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant emphasized the essential nature of judicial infrastructure. He laid the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II. This project includes residential buildings for judges and the Chief Justice. The new complex aims to meet needs for the next century. Construction is expected to be completed within two years. Hyderabad, State governments across the political spectrum recognise that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief ...Read More >
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the evidence on ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the implementation of the Adani group's Rs 14,535-crore bid to acquire the debt-ridden Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL), but provided a safeguard by restraining the firm's monitoring committee from taking any "major policy decisions" without prior nod of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi asked mining giant Vedanta Ltd, which is opposing the resolution ...Read More >
Raipur, Apr 6 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, observing that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, in its April 2 order, set aside a trial court's 2007 judgment acquitting Amit Jogi, holding it as "palpably illegal, wrong, perverse and contrary to the ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea challenging the environmental clearance (EC) granted for the Kozhikode-Wayanad tunnel construction in Kerala. The matter came up for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. Senior advocate Shyam Divan represented the petitioner Wayanad Prakrithi Samarakshana Samithi. The bench granted the petitioner liberty to approach the National Green Tribunal (NGT) if any condit ...Read More >
Raipur, Apr 2 (PTI) The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi. The order is of April 2 when a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma had set aside Amit Jogi's acquittal by a trial court in 2007. The order copy was uploaded on the HC's website on Monday. "We are of the considered opinion that the judgment passed by the learned trial judge ...Read More >
The Chhattisgarh high court on Thursday convicted former assembly member Amit Jogi, son of the late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ramavatar Jaggi's murder around 23 years ago, directing him to surrender within three weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma set aside a trial court's 2007 acquittal and pronounced Amit Jogi guilty. The high court reopened the case last month. In November 2025, the Supreme Court asked ...Read More >
Raipur, April 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a landmark verdict that has sent ripples across Chhattisgarh's political landscape, the High Court has sentenced former MLA Amit Jogi, son of the state's first Chief Minister, late Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 in the sensational 2003 murder case of senior NCP leader Ram Avatar Jaggi. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma pronounced the sentence after hearing the CBI's appeal, a ...Read More >
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh High Court has overturned the 2007 acquittal of Amit Jogi, son of the state's first Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, sentencing him to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma accepted the CBI's appeal, reversing the May 31, 2007, verdict of the Raipur trial court. The court found Amit Jogi, a former MLA, guilty under Section 302 (Murder) and Section 120-B (Criminal C ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court of India on Monday declined to stay proceedings in a plea filed by Vedanta Limited challenging the approval of Adani Group's resolution plan for the takeover of insolvent Jaiprakash Associates Limited. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant observed that since the appeal is likely to be decided shortly by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), and Vedanta's interests have been adequately safeguarded through interim meas ...Read More >
RAIPUR: In a major development in the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, the Chhattisgarh high court has convicted former MLA Amit Jogi and sentenced him to life imprisonment, overturning his earlier acquittal in the case. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma set aside the 2007 trial court verdict that had given Jogi the benefit of doubt, and directed him to surrender within three weeks. The case relates to the killing of Ramavatar Jaggi, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The District Magistrate (DM) of West Bengal's Malda issued a show-cause notice to the Additional District Magistrate (Law and Order) after seven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed on April 1. The show-cause notice dated April 4 was served to ADM Shaikh Ansar Ahmad over a "serious lapse in duty and failure to report ground situation to higher authority on 1st April 2026, regarding the condition of judicial officers at Kaliachak." The notice mentioned that the ADM's ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday expressed confidence that the upcoming Telangana High Court complex would rank among the most impressive judicial campuses in the country. He made the remarks after reviewing design plans and scale models while laying the foundation stone for Zone II of the High Court project at Rajendranagar. The event was attended by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Supreme Court judges PS Narasimha, Ujjal Bhuyan, SV Bhatti, and Alok Aradhe, along with Te ...Read More >
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and others previously accused in the excise policy case have moved a recusal application before Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma in the Delhi High Court, the party said in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, Kejriwal will also argue the case on Monday. This comes after the Delhi High Court on March 16 granted Kejriwal and others more time to respond to the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI's) p ...Read More >
Delivering the First Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lecture on 'Constitutionalism beyond rights: Why structure matters' at Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) in Patna, Justice Nagarathna stressed that a "mature federation" must prioritise dialogue and negotiation over litigation, warning that the growing tendency of governments to rush to courts reflects deeper structural concerns. "Increase in conflict between the States of the Union or between the Centre and the States does not augur well f ...Read More >
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