Even as the Supreme Court on Monday hinted at a possible stay on the Centre's new farm laws, a final verdict will be delivered on Tuesday. The apex court may take a call on setting up of a committee headed by a former Chief Justice of India (CJI) to find ways to resolve the impasse.
The Supreme Court on Monday heard a batch of petitions, including those filed by DMK MP Tiruchi Siva, RJD MP Manoj Jha, challenging the constitutional validity of three farm laws, passed by the Centre along with the plea to remove protesting farmers.
Calling the Nepal government's move to dissolve the lower house of the Parliament to be a 'political move', Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said the Supreme Court should dismiss the case.
Indian National Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala on January 11 slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Supreme Court's statement to Centre on farm laws. He said PM Modi to wake up and revoke the farm laws.
If the Centre does not want to stay the implementation of the three farm laws, the Supreme Court on Monday said it will put a stay on it.
While hearing the pleas, the SC said it is “extremely disappointed” with the way negotiations are going on between the Centre and the farmers on the new farm laws, against which several farmer organisations are staging a protest at Delhi borders.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, are staying put at various border points of Delhi since late November last year to protest against the laws. Enacted in September, the three laws have been projected by the central government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.
On Saturday, a farmers' body, Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations (CIFA), moved the top court in support of the three laws and sought impleadment in the matter.
If the Centre does not want to stay the implementation of farm laws, we will put a stay on it, says Chief Justice of India on Farm laws.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre what it has learnt from the Nizamuddin Markaz congregation earlier this year amid Covid-19, and the same situation may arise with the protesting farmers, if precautionary measures are not taken to contain the spread of Covid-19.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre what it has learnt from the Nizamuddin Markaz congregation earlier this year amid Covid-19, and the same situation may arise with the protesting farmers.
A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, which observed that there is no improvement on the ground regarding farmers' protests, was told by the Centre that “healthy discussions” are going on between the government and farmers over these issues.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to stay the ordinance promulgated by the Uttar Pradesh government regulating inter-faith marriages and religious conversion.
The court also noted that there were no such problems being faced in the virtual court system in the Delhi High Court next door. The apex court is hearing matters through video-conferencing since March last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Central Vista revamp, announced in September, 2019 envisages a new triangular Parliament building. It is to be constructed by August, 2022 when the country celebrates its 75th Independence Day.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the environmental clearance and notification for change in land use for Central Vista Project. A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna, however, directed project proponent of Central
Political activists have condemned a violent attack on a century old Hindu Temple on Wednesday in the village of Teri, in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
"Proper implementation of the judicial charter to decide the cases, including cases pending before Tehsildar, SDM, ADM, CO, SOC and DDC, within three years in the spirit of the resolution dated October 25, 2009," stated the plea filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay.
The CBI has filed a plea against the Chief Minister of Est Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, accusing her government of non-cooperation in probe of the Saradha chit fund case.
A viral claim circulating on social media claimed the Supreme Court of Nepal has banned azan and declared it a criminal offence. Watch 'aaj ka viral' to know the truth behind.
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