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SC refuses to stay implementation of CAA, directs all High Courts not to hear any CAA related petition

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2020

CJI Bobde has directed all High Courts to not proceed with hearing any petition filed against or in favour of the CAA.

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Supreme Court directs Centre to respond to United Nations Human Rights Council official’s intervention plea on Rohingya Muslims

OpIndia Staff - 11 January, 2020

The UN Special Rapporteur had made a plea seeking intervention against the central government’s move to deport Rohingya Muslims from India

Law

Jamia riots: Supreme Court dismisses pleas against police action, directs the petitioners to approach respective HCs

OpIndia Staff - 17 December, 2019

Dismissing the pleas filed by lawyers of petitioners seeking suo motu action against police action, the Supreme Court asked the petitioners should be file a case in the respective HCs.

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Nirbhaya gang rape: Convicts not to file mercy petition, to seek withdrawal of notification that had granted them 7 days to file petition

OpIndia Staff - 5 November, 2019

The jail authorities had informed the Nirbhaya gangrape case convicts that they had exhausted all legal remedies

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Bombay HC orders NGO to pay cost of 1 lakh for filing ‘frivolous petition seeking to stall development in Navi Mumbai’

OpIndia Staff - 17 September, 2019

Bombay High Court concluded that the petition was filed to stop development in Navi Mumbai

Law

CJI Ranjan Gogoi berates advocate ML Sharma for poorly drafted petition on abrogation of Article 370, “I could not understand it,” says CJI

OpIndia Staff - 16 August, 2019

The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of five petitions including one plea filed by ML Sharma pertaining to the abrogation of Article 370 and the restrictions placed in Jammu and Kashmir pre-empting a security threat.

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Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin, files writ petition in SC against ‘information blackout’ in Kashmir valley

OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2019

Kashmir Times Executive Editor Anuradha Bhasin files writ petition in Supreme Court against "information blackout" in Kashmir valley

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SC refuses to grant an urgent hearing on a petition filed by infamous ML Sharma challenging the scrapping of Article 370

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2019

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of India refused to grant an urgent hearing on a petition filed by advocate ML Sharma challenging the scrapping of Article 370

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