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Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar linkage with tax returns, PAN today

Supreme Court to deliver verdict on pleas challenging government’s decision to make Aadhaar mandatory for filing income tax returns as well as for obtaining and retaining PAN → Read More

Supreme Court to hear plea challenging legality of govt rules on cattle trade

A Supreme Court vacation bench said the cattle trade case will be heard on 15 June → Read More

Ramachandra Guha tells SC he is stepping down from court-appointed BCCI panel

An SC bench in January had appointed a committee of administrators, including Ramachandra Guha, to manage BCCI and pilot reforms suggested by the Lodha panel → Read More

Supreme Court defers hearing on plea challenging mandatory use of Aadhaar

Supreme Court also directed the court registry to list all cases seeking a stay on mandatory use of Aadhaar together for 27 June → Read More

SC to hear plea against making Aadhaar mandatory for 17 govt schemes

Child rights activist Shanta Sinha moved the Supreme Court arguing that some of the schemes for which Aadhaar is mandatory fall outside the purview of the Aadhaar Act → Read More

Supreme Court to hear C.S. Karnan plea against conviction order

The Supreme Court agreed to consider hearing a plea filed by justice C.S. Karnan seeking to review an apex court ruling holding him in contempt → Read More

Supreme Court sends fresh Aadhaar plea to larger Constitution bench

Supreme Court sends fresh plea challenging Aadhaar Act and mandatory use of the unique identification number in at least 17 govt schemes to larger Constitution bench → Read More

Vijay Mallya guilty of contempt of court: Supreme Court

Supreme Court will deliberate on awarding a sentence to Vijay Mallya on 10 July → Read More

Plea against mandatory use of Aadhaar to be heard today

Child rights activist Shanta Sinha moved the Supreme Court arguing that some of the schemes for which Aadhaar is mandatory fall outside the purview of the Aadhaar law → Read More

Supreme Court to examine female genital mutilation issue

Supreme Court asks the Centre and four states to respond to a PIL seeking to formulate laws for addressing the issue of female genital mutilation → Read More

2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC upholds death penalty

Supreme Court upholds death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a physiotherapy student on board a bus in 2012 → Read More

SC reserves verdict on pleas against making Aadhaar mandatory for ITRs, PAN

The Supreme Court effectively reserved its verdict on petitions challenging the govt’s decision to make Aadhaar mandatory for filing ITRs and for obtaining and retaining PAN → Read More

Aadhaar-PAN linkage case: Govt tells Supreme Court objectors offending law

SC was hearing petitions challenging the govt’s decision to make Aadhaar mandatory for filing income tax returns as well as for obtaining and retaining PAN → Read More

Govt defends decision to link PAN with Aadhaar in Supreme Court

Here are a few arguments attorney general Mukul Rohatgi made in the Supreme Court in favour of the government’s decision to link PAN with Aadhaar → Read More

SC calls for medical examination of justice C.S. Karnan in contempt case

Supreme Court calls for constitution of a medical board to examine the mental condition of Calcutta high court justice C.S. Karnan, in the contempt case against him → Read More

Advocate Shyam Divan makes case against govt rule making Aadhaar must to file tax returns

Advocate Divan says individual must be allowed to determine what information of his can be allowed to be put out and this is closely tied to a person’s right to dignity → Read More

Tamil Nadu govt denies farmers in state died due to farm distress in state

Apex court was hearing case filed by Tamil Nadu Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking court’s intervention in providing relief to farmers affected by drought in the state → Read More

Hold talks to resolve the impasse in Kashmir, SC tells govt

SC bench was hearing an appeal filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association questioning the legality of using pellet guns in the state → Read More

Shyam Divan concludes arguments in Aadhaar case in Supreme Court

Senior advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for one of the petitioners challenging the government’s decision to link PAN with Aadhaar, concluded his arguments in SC → Read More

SC upholds decision on probe of Army killings in AFSPA areas

Supreme Court upheld its decision directing the government to probe every case of alleged extra judicial killing even in AFSPA areas → Read More