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The Court that the Aadhaar Card is created to ensure that the benefits of social welfare schemes reach everyone and does not automatically confer voting rights.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s verdict that upheld his dismissal, making it clear that individual religious rigidity cannot override the collective discipline required in a fighting force.

The Supreme Court said that the concept of deemed assent is antithetical to the spirit of the Constitution and the doctrine of separation of powers and that it is virtually a takeover of the functions of the Governors.

India's Supreme Court is reviewing talaq-e-hasan, a Muslim divorce practice where a husband pronounces divorce thrice over three months. The court questioned its validity amid concerns for women's dignity and equality, considering whether a larger bench should hear the case.

The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court to postpone the ECI’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The State argues that conducting the revision alongside the upcoming December local body elections will cause severe administrative chaos and staff shortages.

Pakistan's judiciary plunged deeper into crisis today as a third judge, Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza of the Lahore High Court (LHC), resigned in protest...