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A strip of nails is placed at the heavily barricaded Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, Ghazipur during the ongoing farmer protests on February 3, 2021. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA
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“We are sure that the government is inquiring into it. We saw a statement by the Prime Minister in the media that law will take its course. We don’t want to interfere at this stage,” Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde told a PIL petitioner.
Couples at the mass wedding in Udaipur. Photo for representational purpose.
The petitioner argued that the plea had been filed to ‘secure gender justice, gender equality, and dignity of women’. The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to examine a plea to transfer to itself cases pending in the Delhi and Rajasthan High Courts to declare a “uniform minimum age” for marriage.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde issued notice to the government on the plea by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who argued that the transfer plea had been filed to “secure gender justice, gender equality, and dignity of women”.
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February 02, 2021 01:13 IST
A BCI release said, the CJI said the judges themselves were willing to resume physical hearing of cases
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New Delhi: CJI-designate Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde during the farewell function of Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi in New Delhi, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma) (PTI11 15 2019 000239A)
A BCI release said, the CJI said the judges themselves were willing to resume physical hearing of cases
Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde on Monday told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, office-bearers of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and various lawyers’ bodies that physical hearings in the Supreme Court might start by the first week of March.
Kerala journalists move Supreme Court for Kappan’s bail
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January 31, 2021 08:09 IST
The union urged the top court to grant Mr. Kappan bail for five days to visit his mother.
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Siddique Kappan. Photo: Special Arrangement
The union urged the top court to grant Mr. Kappan bail for five days to visit his mother.
The Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) on Saturday moved the Supreme Court for grant of interim bail to its secretary, Sidhique Kappan, who is charged under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and detained in a Uttar Pradesh jail.
In its plea, the journalists’ union said the health of Kappan’s 90-year-old mother in Kerala has deteriorated. She was in hospital in a very critical condition.