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Supreme Court fines litigant who wanted verses removed from Quran
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Synopsis The Supreme Court fined a litigant ₹50,000 for seeking the court’s intervention to have 26 verses, which allegedly preach hatred against non-believers, removed from Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
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The Supreme Court fined a litigant ₹50,000 for seeking the court’s intervention to have 26 verses, which allegedly preach hatred against non-believers, removed from Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
A bench led by Justice RF Nariman dismissed the plea as “very frivolous” on Monday. The fine has to be paid to the Legal Services Authority, which provides free legal aid to the indigent. The petitioner in the case was Syed Waseem Rizvi, a former chief of the UP Shia Central Wakf Board. His lawyer argued that students who were going to madrasas were exposed to these verses and cannot be conditioned to hate. This would lead to internationalisation of terror.
States can t make serving bureaucrats election commissioners, says Supreme Court
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The ruling came in a case involving Goa, where the BJP government gave law secretary ‘additional charge’ of the state election commission. A state election commissioner is in charge of conducting polls to municipalities, corporations and panchayats.
Officials associated with govts cannot work as state election commissioners: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that serving bureaucrats must not double up as election commissioners to ensure that the independence of the office of the election commissioner was not compromised.
“If they hold any such office (under the state government), then they have to resign before taking charge of the office of the election commissioner,” a three-judge bench of Justices RF Nariman, BR Gavai and Hrishikesh Roy said. It ordered all state governments to appoint whole-time election commissioners who will act independently and
Government Official Can t Be State Election Commissioner : Supreme Court Rebukes Goa
The court ruled that henceforth all states should appoint an independent election commissioner while hearing a case relating to municipal polls in Goa.Â
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that state government officials cannot be made state election commissioners to ensure that the independence of the poll body is not compromised while issuing orders in a case relating to municipal polls in Goa.
“All states and territories in India shall henceforth ensure that it has an Independent State Election Commissioner as mandated under Article 243(4) of Constitution,”