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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
Kapil Sibal underlined that the Article 142 power was given to the Supreme Court by the Constitution. Today, Kapil Sibal, Senior Advocate and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, addressed a press conference on the Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar's remarks calling Article 142 a "nuclear missile" used against democratic forces. Sibal said he is deeply saddened that a constitutional functionary is making such remarks.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Centre made the statement after the Supreme Court raised concerns about the drastic changes made to the Waqf law. In response to the petitions challenging the Waqf(Amendment) Act 2025, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta today made the following statements before the Supreme Court :1. Non-Muslims won't be appointed to Central Waqf Councils and State Waqf Boards in terms of the amended provisions during the hearing. 2.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Debby Jain |Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Supreme Court today (April 17) delivered a split verdict on the disciplinary action to be taken against an Advocate-on-Record (AoR) and his assisting Advocate for filing a petition that involved serious suppression of facts. Although the lawyers tendered an unconditional apology, the judges were divided on whether they should be let off without further consequences.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
In response to the petitions challenging the Waqf(Amendment) Act 2025, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta today made the following statements before the Supreme Court :1. Non-Muslims won't be appointed to Central Waqf Councils and State Waqf Boards during the hearing. 2. Waqfs, including waqf-by-user, whether declared by way of notification or registration, will be de-notified till the next date of hearing.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Supreme Court today(April 17) disposed of a batch of petitions, originally filed during the COVID-19 pandemic seeking access to courtroom proceedings through virtual court links. The Court disposed of the petitions, giving liberty to the petitioners to approach the concerned High Courts and the various E-Committees constituted to deal with the issue.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
"We are absolutely secular. For us, one side or the other side is the same," CJI said. Today, while the Supreme Court was hearing on the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, a submission from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta related to the inclusion of non-Muslims in Central Waqf Council and the State Waqf Boards drew a sharp response from the Court. A bench comprising CJI, Justice Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan was hearing the petitions challenging the 2025 Act.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
At the end of today's two-hour hearing on the constitutionality of the Waqf(Amendment) Act, 2025, the Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna, appealed to the people against resorting to violence. "One thing is very disturbing, the violence taking place. Once the matter is before the Court... this should not happen...we will decide," CJI said. Last week, the protests held in Murshidabad (West Bengal) against the Act had led to violence, reportedly killing three persons.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
While hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, the Supreme Court on Wednesday proposed to pass an interim order with the following directions :1. The properties declared by Courts as Waqfs should not be de-notified as Waqfs, whether they are by waqf-by-user or waqf by deed, while the Court is hearing the matter. 2.
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1 week ago | 
livelaw.in | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Court said that a language should not be linked to any religion. While rejecting the challenge of using Urdu on the signboard of a Municipality in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court yesterday warned that language should not become a cause for division and that the linguistic diversity of India should be appreciated. Coming to the present case, it must be stated that a Municipal Council is there to provide services to the local community of the area and cater to their immediate day-to-day needs.
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1 week ago | 
t.ly | Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Court said that a language should not be linked to any religion. While rejecting the challenge of using Urdu on the signboard of a Municipality in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court yesterday warned that language should not become a cause for division and that the linguistic diversity of India should be appreciated. Coming to the present case, it must be stated that a Municipal Council is there to provide services to the local community of the area and cater to their immediate day-to-day needs.
