“Your guidelines have not achieved the object for which they were framed,” the Chief Justice told the Union, as the Supreme Court asked whether acid should be sold across the counter at all. New Delhi: Hearing pleas on the rehabilitation of acid attack survivors and the regulation of acid sales, the Supreme Court on October […]
Para 13(A) of the Supreme Court’s April 27 order is gone: trial courts no longer have to call for mitigation reports in every death-eligible case, though the requirement for High Courts stays. New Delhi: Accepting a clarification application by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the Supreme Court has deleted its direction that trial courts […]
Supreme Court judge Justice Sandeep Mehta has, in three letters to CJI Surya Kant, urged the immediate replacement of Rajasthan HC acting Chief Justice SP Sharma, alleging conduct that “raises doubts on his integrity.” New Delhi: In an extraordinary development within the higher judiciary, Supreme Court judge Justice Sandeep Mehta has written a series of […]
