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Former Judges paint a grim picture of Judiciary with their misplaced, misdirected political rants: Problem with what ex-judge Gopala Gowda said

Nupur J Sharma - 9 January, 2023

On 7th of January, former Supreme Court Judge Justice V Gopala Gowda made incendiary, misplaced and daft political statements

Law

CJI Chandrachud recuses himself from hearing a contempt case against ‘comedian’ Kunal Kamra: Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud recused himself from hearing a contempt case against 'comedian' Kunal Kamra.

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As Supreme Court says 50,000 people cannot be uprooted overnight, here is how 1 lakh people were displaced during the Khori Gaon eviction

Shraddha Pandey - 5 January, 2023

On June 7, 2021, Supreme Court had directed the removal of illegal encroachments on forest land in Khori Gaon, a village at the foothills of the eco-sensitive Aravallis in Haryana’s Faridabad within six weeks.

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‘Muslim crowd, Arfa, religion… speak in Hindi, not Urdu’: Haldwani encroachers being trained by journalist claiming to be from The Wire

राहुल पाण्डेय - 5 January, 2023

A journalist who claimed to be with The Wire can be heard tutoring illegal encroachers at Haldwani who have been protesting against High Court order of their removal.

News Reports

Supreme Court stays demolition drive to clear illegal encroachment from Railways land in Haldwani, says there has to be rehabilitation before eviction

OpIndia Staff - 5 January, 2023

The apex court Thursday put a stay on the matter of the removal of encroachment from Indian Railways land in Haldwani, Uttarakhand

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Supreme Court refuses to hear Azam Khan’s plea to transfer the cases against him out of Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff - 4 January, 2023

Supreme Court rejected to hear a plea by Azam Khan in which he had requested to transfer the cases against him out of Uttar Pradesh

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As ‘liberals’ cling on to dissent by Justice BV Nagarathna, here is how she praised the Demonetisation move

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2023

Liberals went into raptures about justice BV Navarathna for dissenting on the Demonetisation verdict by SC.

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Supreme Court upholds Central govt’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in 2016

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2023

The Supreme Court was pronouncing the verdict on a batch of petitions that had challenged the Union Government's November 8, 2016 decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.

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Kapil Sibal deems Law Minister’s comments against Supreme Court ‘unacceptable’; here is what he had said about the SC only a few months ago

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2022

While Kapil Sibal mouthed platitudes about the Independence of the Judiciary, he has been at the forefront of casting aspersions on the integrity of the apex court.

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