The Supreme Court has said it will neither impose a complete firecracker ban nor permit unrestricted use, accepted the Centre’s recommendation to allow joint firecrackers with limits on shell number, size and intervals between bursts, deferred the barium question in Generation 2 green crackers to October 15, and left Delhi-NCR to be raised before the CJI-led MC Mehta bench.
The Supreme Court has granted bail to a 30-year-old security guard accused over allegedly obscene and derogatory Facebook posts about Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife and MLA Kalpana Soren, noting that he has been in custody for over a year, that the maximum sentence is three years and that custodial interrogation is not required.
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the State of Goa on an appeal by Tehelka’s former editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, challenging the Bombay High Court’s judgment that reversed his acquittal, convicted him of the 2013 rape of a colleague, and sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment. Tejpal, who has surrendered, sought an early hearing on suspension of his sentence. The State has separately sought enhancement of the sentence to life imprisonment.
