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  India can't have parallel legal systems for rich and poor: Supreme Court

  India | July 22, 2021 14:11 IST

  The top court made these crucial observations while cancelling the bail granted to Madhya Pradesh BSP MLA's husband, who was arrested in over two-year-old murder case of Congress leader Devendra Chourasia.  

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  Cop, two others booked for raping a woman in Uttar Pradesh

  Crime | December 25, 2019 15:01 IST

  A case has been registered against a policeman and two others for allegedly raping a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, officials said on Wednesday.

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  Obligation and opportunity: Female lawyers demands greater participation in judiciary

  India | June 05, 2019 10:53 IST

  Woman lawyers were speaking at a panel discussion organised on the 65th anniversary of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW). The topic of discussion was Judicial Accountability and Women.

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  Facebook blocks post by leading Pak media house on judiciary, cites over 'local law restrictions'

  World | May 12, 2018 15:08 IST

  In an automated message, Facebook said,"Due to legal restrictions in your country, we've limited access to your post on Facebook". However, the post is still accessible via a virtual private network (VPN) in the country.

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  SC witnesses open 'turf-war' between judiciary, executive: Here's what happened in apex court today

  India | May 04, 2018 19:45 IST

  The strong remarks by the bench came after Venugopal said though the court was dealing with a matter relating to the vacancy of judges in the high courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura, the fact was that the Collegium has been recommending only three names for high courts where the vacancy was for 40 judges.

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  Impeachment can't be answer to every question in judiciary: Justice Chelameswar

  India | April 07, 2018 21:38 IST

  The judge, who was delivering a talk on the topic 'Role of judiciary in democracy', also answered questions on the priority of the CJI in constituting benches and allocating cases to different judges as the 'master of roster'.   

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  Four SC judges' virtual revolt against Chief Justice Dipak Misra; legal fraternity says it's shocking

  India | January 12, 2018 23:44 IST

  Four senior judges of the Supreme Court on Friday mounted a virtual revolt against the chief justice, listing a litany of problems that they said are afflicting the country's highest court and warned they could destroy Indian democracy.

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  Independent judiciary enhances India’s credibility, says President Ram Nath Kovind

  India | December 16, 2017 19:50 IST

  President Kovind further said that the training of judicial officers is very important to improve the efficiency and quality of the lower courts.

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  Govt nod to panel to look into salary hike of lower court judges

  India | November 10, 2017 23:52 IST

  With the Cabinet granting its approval, the Law Ministry would now notify the formation of the second National Judicial Pay Commission.

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  Judiciary shouldn't be influenced by events of the day: Arun Jaitley

  Politics | October 27, 2017 22:21 IST

  Jaitley's remarks came in the wake of some recent judgements like that on the national anthem and the social media, where the judiciary adopted a different approach than in the past.

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  Judges appointments: After SC rap to Centre, PM says need to reduce burden of judiciary

  India | October 31, 2016 17:26 IST

  After SC raps Centre on judges appointments, PM says need to reduce burden of judiciary

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  Centre accepts collegium's demand to remove cap on appointment of lawyers as Supreme Court judges

  India | August 17, 2016 17:07 IST

  The government has acceded to some demands of the collegium including removing the cap on the number of jurists and lawyers who can be appointed to the Supreme Court as judges. Sources in the government

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  Govt proposes panel to deal with complaints against SC, HC judges; signals fresh run-in between judiciary and executive

  India | August 01, 2016 14:36 IST

  In a move that could further intensify the tussle between the judiciary and executive, the government has proposed setting up a mechanism that will deal with complaints against judges in the Supreme Court and in

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  Judiciary only intervenes when executives fail: CJI TS Thakur rejects charges of judicial overreach

  India | June 07, 2016 11:23 IST

  New Delhi: Rejecting Modi government's charge of judicial overreach, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur has said that judiciary intervenes only when the executive fails in its constitutional duties. The CJI also said,

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  'Edifice of legislative coming down brick by brick': Jaitley targets judiciary

  Politics | May 11, 2016 21:32 IST

  Finance minister and Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley today cautioned legislators against ceding more powers to the judiciary.

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  Three crore cases pending before judiciary, retd. officers to work as ad hoc judges

  India | April 24, 2016 21:45 IST

  New Delhi: In a significant step to tackle mounting cases, a conference of chief ministers and chief justices of high courts today adopted a resolution to invoke a constitutional provision to appoint retired judicial officers

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  Supreme Court to pronounce verdict tomorrow on improving collegium system

  India | December 15, 2015 22:16 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce tomorrow the verdict on bringing transparency in the collegium system of appointing judges in higher judiciary.The collegium system of judges appointing judges, which had come into

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  Basic structure can't be dismantled to protect only judiciary independence: Arun Jaitley

  Politics | November 28, 2015 20:34 IST

  New Delhi: Continuing his criticism of the quashing the NJAC Act, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said doctrine of basic structure, including elected government and parliament's sovereignty, cannot be "dismantled" to save only independence of

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  68 % of Indian citizens believe appointments in judiciary are not transparent: Survey

  India | August 12, 2015 15:15 IST

  68 % citizens believe that the current process of appointment and promotion of judges from lower to higher courts is not transparent, reveals a largest citizen survey on judiciaryWhile 80% people want civil society to

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  Bombay High Court reserves order till Aug 3 on nestle plea against maggi ban

  India | July 31, 2015 18:28 IST

  Mumbai:  The Bombay High Court today reserved its order till August 3 on a petition filed by Nestle India against orders of Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Food and Drugs Administration of