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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred hearing to Friday the Centre’s plea seeking separate execution of the four convicts of the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. Hearing a plea filed by convict Mukesh, the SC asked…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has rejected Nirbhaya gangrape case convict Mukesh Singh’s petition challenging mercy rejection by the President. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi pronounced the verdict on Wednesday on…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ruled that it will not grant stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) without hearing the version of the Centre on the matter. Hearing around 140 petitions against the contentious Act, the apex court…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear a batch of 144 petitions challenging the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act on Wednesday. A bench, comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, which had…

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative petitions filed by two Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convicts – Vinay Kumar and Mukesh – who questioned the death sentence handed down by trial…

New Delhi: The Kerala Government today challenged the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Supreme Court of India (SC). Led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Kerala Government moved the apex court under Article 131…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ruled that access to Internet is a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution and urged the Jammu and Kashmir administration to review within a week all orders imposing restrictions in the…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today rejected the review plea filed by Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case convict Akshay Kumar Singh seeking review of its 2017 judgment upholding his death penalty. The SC bench comprising Justices R…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it will hold a hearing on the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, held in Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University and Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh Muslim University on December 17.…

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court today appointed a three-member inquiry commission headed by former apex court judge VS Sirpurkar to inquire into the circumstances leading to the encounter killing of the four…