who is the cji of supreme court of india
Chief Justice of India


The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the head of the judiciary of India and the Supreme Court of India. The CJI also heads their administrative functions. As head of the supreme court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In accordance with Article 145 of the Constitution of India and the Supreme Court Rules of Procedure of 1966, the Chief Justice allocates all work to the other judges who are bound to refer the matter back to
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List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India


The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 28 January 1950. A total of 212 judges have served in the court (Excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirement with Chief Justices mentioned first. ! S.no. !Portrait ! class="sortable" |Name of the Justice !Date of appointment ! class="sortable" | Date of appointment as CJI !Date of retirement !Tenure Length !Tenure Length as CJI ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 !
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List of Chief Justices of India


two puisne judges. The first Chief Justice was Sir Maurice Gwyer and the other two judges were Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman and M. R. Jayakar. It functioned until the establishment of the Supreme Court of India on 28 January 1950. ‡ – Date of Resignation Since the birth of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950, 46 people have served as the Chief Justice of India (CJI). While H. J. Kania is the inaugural CJI, the current incumbent is Ranjan Gogoi who is appointed as Chief Justice of India on 3
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him or her (for re-allocation) in any case where they require it to be looked into by a larger bench of more judges. On the administrative side, the Chief Justice carries out the following functions: maintenance of the roster; appointment of court officials and general and miscellaneous matters relating to the supervision and functioning of the Supreme Court. It has been an unbroken convention for decades now, to appoint the senior-most judge of the supreme court as the CJI. The present CJI is Justice Ranjan Gogoi,
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List of Chief Justices of India


This is a list of all Chief Justices of India (CJI). There are a total of 46 Chief Justices of India that have served since the establishment of the Supreme Court of India in 1950, which superseded the Federal Court of India. The current Incumbent Chief Justice is Ranjan Gogoi, who entered office 3 October 2018. The Federal Court of India came into being on 1 September 1937. The seat of the court was the Chamber of Princes in the Parliament building in Delhi. It began with a Chief Justice and
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H. L. Dattu


Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (born 3 December 1950) is a former Chief Justice of India(CJI), and the current chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. As the CJI he served for nearly 14 months, from 28 September 2014 to 2 December 2015. Before his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 December 2008; he had served as the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court. Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was born in Chikkapattanagere village in Chikmagalur district of Mysore State (now Karnataka).
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Ananga Kumar Patnaik


as judge who was pro poor and strongly supported the underprivileged classes. On 17 November 2009, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India which he served till his retirement on 2 June 2014. After retirement he was offered the post of chairman of Odisha State Human Rights Commission which he refused as he wanted to stay in Delhi. He was nominated by the then Chief Justice of India as the Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee. He was also nominated by the CJI who is the ex-
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Act 1935. The Federal Court had jurisdiction to solve disputes between provinces and federal states and hear appeals against judgements of the high courts. The first CJI of India was H. J. Kania. The Supreme Court of India came into being on 28 January 1950. It replaced both the Federal Court of India and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which were then at the apex of the Indian court system. The first proceedings and inauguration, however, took place on 28 January 1950 at 9:45 am, when the judges took their
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and is the 46th CJI since 3 October 2018. January 1950, the year the Constitution came into effect and the supreme court came into being. He succeeded Justice Dipak Misra on 2 October 2018, and will remain in office till 17 November 2019, the day he retires on turning 65 years in age. Article 124 of the Constitution of India provides the matter of appointing judges of the Supreme Court. Though no specific provision exists in the Constitution for appointing the Chief Justice, who as a result, is appointed like the
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, etc. In the year 2010, the supreme court filed an appeal before itself challenging the judgement of the Delhi high court holding that the office of the chief justice of India came under the ambit of the RTI Act and was liable to reveal information under it. Though the supreme court is in favour of bringing CJI office under RTI act, the judgement of the pending case is not yet pronounced. Legal-aid, court-fee vendors, first-aid post, dental clinic, physiotherapy unit and pathology lab;
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Vineet Narain


Supreme Court of India in the Vineet Narain Vs Union of India. which have also been criticised. In July 1997, Mr. Narain compelled the Chief Justice of India to reveal what was happening behind the scene to hush up this high-profile case. CJI's revelations caused major uproar in the parliament, Bar and media. Narain wote a book in Hindi on this case titled 'Bhrashtachar Atankvaad and Hawala Karobar'(Corruption, Terrorism and Hawala Business') As a fallout of the PIL by Narain, the Supreme Court of India ruled
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other judges conventionally, the outgoing CJI recommends the name of the senior-most judge (i.e. by date of appointment to the Supreme Court) for appointment by the President of India, as his successor. Article 124(4) of Constitution of India lays down the procedure for removal of a Judge of Supreme Court which is applicable to Chief Justice as well. Once appointed, the Chief Justice remains in the office until the age of 65 years. He can be removed only through a process of impeachment by Parliament as follows: The
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Allahabad High Court. In August 1969, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in April 1973. His appointment as CJI came as a reward from the then PM Indira Gandhi for his dissenting opinion in the Keshavanand Bharti case which gave rise to the BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE of the Indian Constitution. This appointment superseded three senior judges of the Supreme Court, Jaishanker Manilal Shelat, AN Grover and K. S. Hegde, and was viewed as an attack on the independence of the Judiciary
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considered the question of the judiciary in some detail, reiterating what the Government of India Act 1935 had set out.: there would be a Federal Court of India which would be the forerunner to the Supreme Court. To separate the judiciary from the executive, the Sapru committee suggested that judges should have fixed salaries and tenures, and that they could only be removed for gross misbehaviour. Judges were to be appointed by the president, in consultation with the CJI. The committee appointed to deal with judicial questions as part of the
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Altamas Kabir


rushed judgement, a bench headed by Justice Kabir quashed the National Eligibility and Entrance Test for admissions to medical colleges in India. This judgement was later set aside by a constitution bench of the Supreme Court. In July 2013, the Supreme Court collegium had stalled Justice Kabir's move to appoint an SC judge just before his retirement, because a warrant of appointment designating Justice P Sathasivam as the next CJI had already been signed, and Justice Kabir's move would have been unprecedented and improper. In 2016, former Chief Minister and
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Yakub Memon


the hearing, the two judges disagreed on the issue and passed an order requesting the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to urgently constitute a larger bench. On July 29, the Supreme Court rejected his petition. Memon also submitted a petition for clemency to Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao and a fresh petition to President Mukherjee, both of which were rejected. As a final resort Memon's lawyers filed a plea for 14-day stay of execution with Supreme Court Chief Justice citing that there needs to be 14-day period between a mercy plea
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effective from 19 August 2015. The supreme court decided to follow a new roster system from 5 February 2018 for allocation of matters to judges. Under the new roster system, the CJI will hear all special leave petitions (SLPs), and matters related to public interest, social justice, elections, arbitration, and criminal matters, among others. The other collegium/senior judges to hear matters related to labour disputes, taxation matters, compensation matters, consumer protection matters, maritime law matters, mortgage matters, personal law matters
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Unnao rape case


the judicial side. The letter written by the victim and her family members claimed that they were being threatened by followers of accused BJP MLA, Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The issue was brought up during the mentioning by Senior Advocate V Giri, who is Amicus Curiae in the case relating to child rape. Giri cited media reports regarding the issue. The Chief Justice of india was anguished with the events and in view of the situation, the CJI led bench of the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of a total of 5 cases related
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Altamas Kabir


2005. He was elevated to the Supreme Court of India as Justice on 9 September 2005. On 29 September 2012 he became the 39th Chief Justice of India. After a tenure of a little over nine months as CJI, he retired on 18 July 2013. During his tenure as Chief Justice he was the Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, the Chairman of the General Council of the Gujarat National Law University and the Visitor of the National Law School of India University. He also taught as a Professor
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the cases presented before them. As the work of the court increased and cases began to accumulate, parliament increased the number of judges(including CJI) from the original 8 in 1950 to 11 in 1956, 14 in 1960, 18 in 1978, 26 in 1986 and 31 in 2009, 34 in 2019(current strength). As the number of the judges has increased, they sit in smaller benches of two or three (referred to as a division bench)—coming together in larger benches of five or more (referred to as a constitution bench
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Lokpal


Lokpal shall be from SC/ST/OBCs, minorities and women. Selection of chairperson and members of Lokpal through a selection committee consisting of PM, Speaker of Lok Sabha, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Chief Justice of India or a sitting Supreme Court judge nominated by CJI. Eminent jurist to be nominated by President of India on basis of recommendations of the first four members of the selection committee "through consensus". Lokpal's jurisdiction will cover all categories of public servants. All entities (NGOs) receiving donations
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P. Sathasivam


Palanisamy Sathasivam (born 27 April 1949) is the current Governor of Kerala, in office since 2014. He previously served as the 40th Chief Justice of India from 2013 to 2014. Sathasivam is the second judge from Tamil Nadu to become the CJI, after M. Patanjali Sastri. He is also the first former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be appointed as the Governor of a state..He is the second ever Kerala Governer appointed by BJP government. Sathasivam was born to Palaniswamy and Natchiammal in Kadappanallur near Bhavani in Erode
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Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya. In a letter to the President, the Prime Minister and CJI Kabir, Justice Bhattacharya claimed that, as Chief Justice and head of the Supreme Court collegium, Justice Kabir had blocked his (Bhattacharya's) elevation to the Supreme Court. Justice Bhattacharya alleged that the reason was his opposition to the appointment of Shukla Kabir Sinha to the bench of the Calcutta High Court, while he was a member of that court's collegium in 2010. On 18 July 2013, in what was claimed to be a
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7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) and Defence Forces


three services, following assurances at the highest level that anomalies affecting armed forces pay, pension, allowances, rank parity, and status would be addressed, issued instructions to their commands to implement the government decision. On 30 January 2018, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his nod to The 7th Pay Commission’s suggestion of increasing the monthly salary of Chief Justice of India (CJI) to Rs 2.80 lakh per month from the present Rs 1 lakh per month, besides recommending a salary hike of the judges of the Supreme Court and
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Panjab University Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur


body of the society. The Student Welfare Society has successfully organized many events like guest lectures, sports meet, annual fest etc.. Some of the successful events were AAROHAN 2009, AAROHAN 2010, ANANT 2011, ANANT 2012 and ANANT 2K13. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir visited Panjab University’s Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Center in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Aimed to sensitise people about illegal immigration and fraudulent marriages involving NRIs, Supreme Court Judge and Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority Justice D K Jain presided and
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Jack Panella


of the Year by the political website PoliticsPA. A well-publicized murder trial presided over by Judge Panella, provided the basis for the book "Lipstick and Blood" (Pinnacle True Crime 2006), by John Kearney. It is a nonfiction book about the joint murder trial of husband and wife defendants, Michelle Hetzel and Brandon Bloss, who were charged with the murder of Devon Guzman. In 2004, he was appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to the "Commission for Justice Initiatives in Pennsylvania" (CJI)
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H. L. Dattu


, and a senior standing counsel for the Income Tax department from 1993 to 1995. Dattu was appointed a judge of the Karnataka High Court on 18 December 1995. Thereafter, on 12 February 2007; he was elevated as Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court. On 18 May 2007, he was transferred to head the Kerala High Court. On 5 September 2014, the President of India had appointed Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India, on the recommendation of CJI Lodha. On 28 September 2014, he was sworn in
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Jack Panella


, a committee organized to coordinate and recommend judicial outreach and specialized court programs. He was the Chair of the Public Education and Community Outreach subcommittee of the Commission. As part of his responsibilities for the CJI, Judge Panella conceived and wrote a popular short film on the history and operation of the Pennsylvania Judiciary. The video can be viewed on the websites of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, or click the 'video' link above. Judge Panella had extensive experience in matters of judicial ethics
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Nanabhoy Palkhivala


concept for the commemoration and its planning was, under the aegis of "Lex Consilium Foundation", a brainchild of Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar, who had authored the book ‘Nani Palkhival: A Role Model’, first released in 2004 and now in 4th edition. A steering committee headed by Justice MN Venkatachaliah (Retd.) (Chairman) and former Governor & Rajya Sabha Member TN Chaturvedi (Working Chairman) was constituted to oversee all activities. It consists of former CJI Dipak Misra & Supreme Court Former Judge Sujata Manohar
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Chief Justice of India


President (Discharge of Functions) Act, 1969 of India provides that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) shall act as the President of India in the event of the offices of both the President and the Vice President being vacant. When President Zakir Hussain died in office, the Vice President V. V. Giri, acted as the President. Later, Mr. Giri resigned as the Vice President. The CJI, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah then became the acting President of India. As per the convention, the senior-most judge of
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Alok Verma


post by a majority of the High Powered Committee (consisting of the PM, a CJI appointee and the Opposition Leader). Verma's removal caused controversy in India and was questioned by legal experts and opposition leaders because of the absence of any evidence to prove allegations of corruption that had been levelled against him. Even Honorable Retired Justice A.K. Patnaik, who was appointed by the Court to monitor the enquiry being conducted by the CVC, termed the decision of the committee as very hasty and indicated that there was no evidence of corruption
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H. L. Dattu


as the 42nd Chief Justice of India. He held the post for a little over a year until his retirement on 2 December 2015, on turning 65 years of age – one of the longest tenures for a CJI in recent years. In February 2014, Dattu was nominated by then CJI P Sathasivam as the CJI's nominee to the five-membered panel to appoint the Lokpal. He is the visitor of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. In February 2016, Dattu began serving as the chairperson of the National Human Rights
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Advocate-on-Record


Advocate on Record is an advocate who is entitled under the Order IV of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 (previously Order IV of the Supreme Court of India Rules, 1966), framed under Article 145 of the Constitution, to act as well as to plead for a party in the Supreme Court of India. As per the Rules, no advocate other than an advocate on record shall be entitled to file an appearance or act for a party in the Supreme Court of India. No advocate other than an advocate on record
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K. M. Joseph


decided "whether a Christian father under an obligation to maintain his minor child" just before being elevated to the High Court Bench. He was appointed as the Permanent Judge of Kerala High Court on 14 October 2004. On 18 July 2014, the President of India had appointed Joseph as the next Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, on recommendation of then CJI Rajendra Mal Lodha. On 31 July 2014, he was sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital. A bench headed by Justice Joseph had quashed the
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appear, act and plead for a party in the court. Those advocates who are designated as 'senior advocates' by the supreme court or any of the high courts can appear for clients along with an advocate-on-record. Any other advocate can appear for a party along with or under instructions from an advocate-on-record. Initially the Constitution of India provided for a supreme court with a chief justice and 7 judges. In the early years, a full bench of the supreme court sat together to hear
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Virendra Singh (Lokayukta)


Virendra Singh (Lokayukta) was appointed lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh on 16 December 2015 by Supreme Court of India He is first Lokayukta of India who is appointed by Supreme Court of India. He is successor of Justice N.K. Mehrotra The Supreme Court exercises its right under Article 142 of the Constitution to make the appointment of Lokayukta . After the intervention of the Supreme Court, Virendra's appointed was replaced by retired judge Sanjay Mishra after the state government was accused of concealing facts regarding the appointed and objections raised by chief justice of Allahabad High
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Chokkalingam Nagappan


He was then further elevated as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court and sworn in on 27.02 2013. He was appointed as a Judge of The Supreme Court of India and sworn in on 19.09.2013. Nagappan who held a relatively short tenure retired as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 03.10.2016. A three judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court, comprising Nagappan, Jasti Chelameswar, and Sharad Arvind Bobde ratified an earlier order of the Supreme Court and clarified that no Indian citizen without an Aadhaar card can be deprived
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, family law matters, land acquisition matters, service matters, company matters etc. Supreme Court Reports is the official journal of reportable supreme court decisions. It is published under the authority of the Supreme Court of India by the Controller of Publications, Government of India, Delhi. In addition, there are many other reputed private journals that report supreme court decisions. Some of these other important journals are: SCR (The Supreme Court Reports), SCC (Supreme Court Cases), AIR (All India Reporter), SCALE
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Youth For Equality


across India took to the streets in protest. This movement was not supported by any political party, leaving YFE to contest as an independent organization in JNU Student Union Elections 2006. Youth For Equality contested JNU Student Union elections and Lok Sabha 2009 elections. Hugo Roles and Reece O'Bryan pursued legal recourse against caste-based reservations, claiming that the Indian government discriminated against people on the basis of their birth. Initially, the organisation got a court suspension of OBC reservations. Later, the Chief Justice India (CJI), K.
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Humayun Kabir


Question". His daughter Leila Kabir is married to Indian politician George Fernandes. His nephew Altamas Kabir was the 39th Chief Justice of India (CJI) and his niece Shukla Kabir Sinha is a judge of the Calcutta High Court. His younger brother Jehangir Kabir is a politician in West Bengal, India. Humayun Kabir also stayed some part of his life in Gopalpur-On-Sea near Berhampur City in Odisha. George Fernandes was staying at his father-in-law Humayun Kabir's house on the same Gopalpur-On
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guilty of misbehaviour or incapacity, further removal proceedings would be taken up by the parliament if the judge is not resigning himself. The judge upon proven guilty is also liable for punishment as per applicable laws or for contempt of the constitution by breaching the oath under disrespecting constitution A Person who has retired as a judge of the supreme court is debarred from practicing in any court of law or before any other authority in India. Article 137 of the Constitution of India lays down provision for the power of the supreme court to review its
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T. S. Thakur


Justice T. S. Thakur (born 4 January 1952) was the 43 Chief Justice of India (CJI). Justice Tirath Singh Thakur enrolled as a pleader in October 1972 and joined the chamber of his father Late Shri Devi Das Thakur, former governor of Assam a leading advocate and later, a judge of High Court of J & K. Justice T. S. Thakur practised in civil, criminal, constitutional, taxation and service matters in the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1990. He
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Indian black money


In April 2014, Indian Government disclosed to the Supreme Court the names of 26 people who had accounts in banks in Liechtenstein, as revealed to India by German authorities. On 27 October 2014, Indian Government submitted name of three people in an affidavit to the Supreme Court who have black money account in foreign countries. But on the very next day, Supreme Court of India orders centre Government to reveal all the names of black money account holders which they had received from various countries like Germany. The honorable bench of the Supreme
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, encompassing truth, goodness and equity. The registry of the supreme court is headed by the Secretary-General who is assisted by 8 registrars, several additional and deputy registrars, etc., with 1770 employees in all (221 gazetted officers, 805 non-gazetted and 744 Class IV employees) Article 146 of the constitution deals with the appointments of officers and servants of the supreme court registry. Supreme Court Rules, 2013 entitle only those advocates who are registered with the supreme court, called advocates-on-record to
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seats. Which is thus regarded as the official date of establishment. The Supreme Court initially had its seat at the Chamber of Princes in the parliament building where the previous Federal Court of India sat from 1937 to 1950. The first Chief Justice of India was H. J. Kania. In 1958, the Supreme Court moved to its present premises. Originally, the Constitution of India envisaged a supreme court with a chief justice and seven judges; leaving it to the parliament to increase this number. In formative years, the Supreme Court
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Advisory opinion


Supreme Court Act" gives an automatic right of appeal from a reference decision of a provincial Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. In India, the President of India can request the Supreme Court of India to provide its advice on certain matters. This procedure is called ""Presidential Reference"". According to , the President of India may refer to the Supreme Court of India, a question of law or fact which, he thinks, is of public importance. However, it is "not" binding
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Altamas Kabir


Act. Kabir also presided over the contempt case against prominent advocate and the (now disbanded) Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan after he alleged that half out of the last 16 CJIs had been corrupt. On 8 May 2012, the Supreme Court bench composed of Altamas Kabir and Ranjana Desai ordered the government to end the Haj subsidy by 2022. On 19 October 2012, he granted bail to journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, arrested for his alleged involvement in the Israeli embassy vehicle blast case in which an Israeli diplomat's wife was
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2018 Supreme Court of India crisis


The Supreme Court of India was in crisis after an interview given by Supreme Court judges Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur, and Kurian Joseph, in which they spoke against the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that he allocates certain politically controversial cases to such benches which gives favourable judgement towards a political party. The judges mentioned the allocation of the case of investigation of death of Special CBI Judge — BH Loya , who was presiding over Sohrabuddin encounter case, in which the BJP President Amit Shah was the prime accused.
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Menaka Guruswamy


. The case is ongoing in the Supreme Court. On March 29, 2019, Guruswamy was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. The designation is conferred on merit to exceptional lawyers by the Supreme Court of India or of High Courts in the States. The designation is conferred by a permanent committee consisting of the Chief Justice of India as its Chairperson, along with two-senior-most Supreme Court judges, Attorney general for India, and a member of the Bar as nominated by the Chairperson and other members
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Judiciary of India


, jury ... E-courts in India" As per the government,held by the court in the Three Judges Cases – (1982, 1993, 1998), a judge is appointed to the Supreme Court and the High Courts by the President of India from a list of names recommended by the "collegium"  – a closed group of the Chief Justice of India and the senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, for appointments to the Supreme Court, and they, together with the Chief Justice of a High Court
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Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal


a judge soon after. On 3 February 1999, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. In less than a year, he was appointed as a judge, Supreme Court of India. Being the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court of India at the time, Sabharwal was appointed as the Chief Justice of India to succeed Mr. R.C. Lahoti who was retiring on 31 October 2005. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice by the President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam on 1 November 2005
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) when required to settle fundamental questions of law. A bench may refer a case before it to a larger bench, should the need arise. A citizen of India not exceeding 65 years age as per of the constitution who has been is eligible to be recommended for appointment, a judge of the supreme court. In practice, judges of the supreme court have been selected so far, mostly from amongst judges of the high courts. Barely seven justices—S. M. Sikri, S. Chandra Roy, Kuldip Singh, Santosh Hegde
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Supreme Court of India


, R. F. Nariman, U. U. Lalit, L. Nageswara Rao and Indu Malhotra—have been appointed to the supreme court directly from the bar (i.e. who were practising advocates). The Supreme Court saw its first woman judge when Justice M. Fathima Beevi was sworn into office in 1989. The seventh and the most recent woman judge in the court is Justice Indu Malhotra. In 1968, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah became the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. In 2000, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan became the first judge from the "
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Supreme Court of India


Bar Council of India rejected this proposal mainly because it would have inconvenienced the advocates who would have to work throughout the year. More over, various time frames specified in 'code of civil procedure' are also diluted by supreme court judgements to give the courts right to endlessly adjourn the cases. Supreme court has not taken up the trail of many pending cases, since April 2014 (more than three years), challenging the validity of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 which was enacted by the parliament without following the stipulated
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Jasti Chelameswar


Jasti Chelameswar (born 23 June 1953) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He retired on 22 June 2018 as the second most senior Supreme court judge. Earlier, he was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala and Gauhati High Court. He was also one of the 4 judges who held a controversial press conference against the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. Chelameswar was born in Peddamuttevi village of Movva mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, the son of Jasti Lakshminarayana, a lawyer who
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colonnaded verandah. The court moved into the building in 1958. In 1979, two new wingsthe East Wing and the West Wingwere added to the complex. 1994 saw the last extension. On 20 February 1980, a black bronze sculpture of height was installed in the lawn of the supreme court. It portrays Mother India in the form of the figure of a lady, sheltering the young Republic of India represented by the symbol of a child, who is upholding the laws of land symbolically shown in the form of an open book
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Supreme Court of India


Swaroop Singh Naik, to be jailed for 1-month on a charge of contempt of court on 12 May 2006. The Constitution of India under Article 145 empowers the supreme court to frame its own rules for regulating the practice and procedure of the court as and when required (with the approval of the president). Accordingly, "Supreme Court Rules, 1950" were framed. The 1950 Rules were replaced by the Supreme Court Rules, 1966. In 2014, supreme court notified the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 replacing the 1966 Rules
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Bar Council of India


enrolled advocate to practice law as an advocate in any High Court and lower court within the territory of India. However to practise Law before the Supreme Court of India, Advocates must first appear for and qualify in the Supreme Court Advocate on Record Examination conducted by the Supreme Court. The Bar Council of India has various committees which make recommendations to the council. The members of these committees are elected from amongst the members of the Council. Other than these, there are Finance Committee, Special or Oversee Committee and All India Bar
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National Register of Citizens of India


smooth operations and implementation of each phase of NRC update in the entire state of Assam. As per Article 144 of Constitution of India, “Civil and judicial authorities to act in aid of the Supreme Court.—All authorities, civil and judicial, in the territory of India shall act in aid of the Supreme Court.” Further Article 142 of the Constitution of India reads: "142. Enforcement of decrees and orders of Supreme Court and orders as to discovery, etc.-(1) The Supreme Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction may pass
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procedure of the Supreme Court. The same is amended and presently governed by the Supreme Court Rules of 2013. There are 25 High Courts at the State level (including new Andhra Pradesh HC). of the Constitution of India mandates that they are bound by the judgements and orders of the Supreme Court of India by precedence. These courts have jurisdiction over a state, a union territory or a group of states and union territories. Below the High Courts are a hierarchy of subordinate courts such as the civil courts, family courts
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P. Chidambaram


British Raj. Annamalai Chettiar was the founder of Annamalai University and United India Insurance Company Limited. His brother Ramaswami Chettiar was the founder of Indian Bank and the co-founder of another major banks. He is married to Nalini Chidambaram, daughter of Justice (Retd.) P.S. Kailasam, Supreme Court, and Mrs. Soundra Kailasam, a renowned Tamil poet and author, who is a senior advocate practising in the Madras High Court and in the Supreme Court of India. He has a son, Karti P. Chidambaram, who graduated
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Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah


years. In October 1959, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in December 1970. On 28 May 1977, the home ministry appointed Justice J. C. Shah, who was then a retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India to head the Shah Commission. It was set up by the central government under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 to probe excesses committed during the Emergency in India. The Shah commission was required to look "into excesses, malpractices and
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in court. Supreme court judges retire at the age of 65. However, there have been suggestions from the judges of the Supreme Court of India to provide for a fixed term for the judges including the Chief Justice of India. Article 125 of the Indian constitution leaves it to the Indian parliament to determine the salary, other allowances, leave of absence, pension, etc. of the supreme court judges. However, the parliament cannot alter any of these privileges and rights to the judge's disadvantage after his/her
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Loughinisland massacre


with those involved and made "no real attempt to catch the killers". After the report's publication, there were calls for the Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, to resign, and the victims' families began a High Court challenge to have the report's findings quashed. In September 2011, the Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) criticized Hutchinson and recommended that the Ombudsman's Office be suspended from investigating historic murders because its independence had been compromised. CJI inspectors found "major inconsistencies" in the Ombudsman's report. Ombudsman investigators
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Supreme court


141 of the Constitution of India states that the law declared by Supreme Court is to be binding on all Courts within the territory of India. It is the highest court in India and has ultimate judicial authority to interpret the Constitution and decide questions of national law (including local bylaws). The Supreme Court is also vested with the power of judicial review to ensure the application of the rule of law. Note that within the constitutional framework of India, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has a special status vis-a-
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Environmental policy of India


general questions of law, as is usually expected from the highest Court of a democratic country. The Supreme Court of India, in its order, includes executive actions and technical details of environmental actions to be implemented. Indeed, some critics of India's Supreme Court describe the Court as the "Lords of Green Bench" or "Garbage Supervisor". Supporters of India's Supreme Court term these orders and the Indian bench as pioneering, both in terms of laying down new principles of law, and in delivering environmental justice.
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Mining scams in India


April 2014, Supreme Court of India lifted the ban on mining in Goa and with a temporary annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore excavation, which was 40 MT earlier. Further, the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India also stayed the order of the Bombay High Court directing the filing of FIRs since investigation by the state government was already underway. It also stated that several conclusions drawn by the M B Shah Commission Report were incorrect, most notably, those on alleged illegality of leases granted in 1988 (to those who
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Supreme Court of India


. Per of the constitution, it is the duty of the president to enforce the decrees of the supreme court. In 1861, the Indian High Courts Act 1861 was enacted to create high courts for various provinces and abolished supreme courts at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay and also the s"adar adalats" in presidency towns which had acted as the highest courts in their respective regions. These new high courts had the distinction of being the highest courts for all cases till the creation of the Federal Court of India under the Government of India
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Shanti Swaroop Dhavan


1967 and was appointed a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. Dhavan was then appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for 1968-'69. He had two sons Ravi Dhavan who was Judge of the High Courts of Allahabad and Patna, and Rajeev Dhavan who js a famous Senior Advocage practicing in Supreme Court of India. He was Governor of West Bengal from 19 September 1969 to 21 August 1971. Dhavan's gubernatorial tenure was marked by the imposition of two stints of President's rule following the fall of the United Front government
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Communist Party of India (Maoist)


the looting of property and destruction of homes. These allegations were rejected by a fact-finding commission of the National Human Rights Commission of India, appointed by the Supreme Court of India, who determined that the Salwa Judum was a spontaneous reaction by tribes against Maoist atrocities perpetrated against them. The camps are guarded by police officers, paramilitary forces and child soldiers empowered with the official title "special police officer" (SPO). However, on 5 July 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the Salwa Judum as illegal
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A. N. Ray


. This was unprecedented in Indian legal history, and has been called the "blackest day in Indian democracy". It was marked by widespread protests by bar associations and legal groups across India. The protests continued for many months and on 3 May 1976 all legal groups in India observed a "Bar solidarity day" and stopped from work. Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah (who was CJI earlier) remarked that "this was an attempt of not creating 'forward looking judges' but the 'judges looking forward' to the plumes of
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Akkai Padmashali


been invited to the White House prior to this in 2015, but at that time she could not attend. She is the first transgender person in the country who got a driving license stating her gender as female. Padmashali was also invited by the President of India to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the CJI of India. She is married to her long time partner, Vasu, a trans man. Padmashali is the first transgender person in Karnataka to register their marriage in Karnataka. Padmashali started her career of activism at
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Chief justice


The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme
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Environmental policy of India


The reasons for the increasing interjection of India's Supreme Court in governance arenas are, experts claim, complex. A key factor has been the failure of government agencies and the state owned enterprises in discharging their Constitutional and Statutory duties. This has prompted civil society groups to file public interest complaints with the Courts, particularly the Supreme Court, for suitable remedies. Public interest litigation and judicial activism on environmental issues extends beyond India's Supreme Court. It includes the High Courts of individual states. India's judicial activism on environmental issues
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Government of India


state level, and district courts and sessions courts at the district level. The Supreme Court of India is situated in New Delhi, the capital region of India. The supreme court is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and 30 sanctioned other judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions. As the final court of appeal of the country,
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Computerized Criminal History


for misdemeanors and felonies in South Dakota (per SDCL 23-5-1 and 4) that go through the State courts, along with all penitentiary entries and follow-up criminal information. Chapter 60, Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP) defines the Computerized Criminal History System (CCH) as the statewide repository of criminal history data reported to DPS by local criminal justice agencies in Texas. CCH is one component of the Texas Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS). The other component of CJIS is the Corrections Tracking System
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Supreme Court of India


a judge of a high court made by the collegium of that court, had come to be challenged in the supreme court. The court held that who could become a judge was a matter of fact, and any person had a right to question it. But who should become a judge was a matter of opinion and could not be questioned. As long as an effective consultation took place within a collegium in arriving at that opinion, the content or material placed before it to form the opinion could not be called for scrutiny
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Supreme court


vis the other states of India. Article 370 of the Constitution of India carves out certain exceptions for J&K. However, the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order 1954 makes Article 141 applicable to the state of J&K and hence law declared by the Supreme Court of India is equally applicable to all courts of J&K including the High Court. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the Republic of Ireland. It has authority to interpret the constitution, and strike down laws and activities of the state that it finds to be
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Indira Banerjee


Justice Indira Banerjee is presently a Judge in the Supreme Court of India, the 8th female Judge in history and the 3rd female Judge of the Supreme Court of India at present. She was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the postition in India. before being elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Indira Banerjee was born on 24 September 1957. She did her schooling at the Loreto House in Kolkata. She pursued her higher education at the Presidency College, Kolkata and
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Supreme Court of India


The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial court and the final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of judicial review. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of 31 judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions. As the final court of appeal of the country, it takes up appeals primarily against verdicts of the high courts of various states of the Union and other courts and tribunals. It safeguards fundamental rights
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Adultery law in India


Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code was a section dealing with adultery. Not regular. Only a man who has consensual sexual intercourse with the wife of another man without his consent can be punished under this offence in India. If someone "lives in adultery", the partner can file for divorce. The law became defunct on 27 September 2018 by Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court called the law unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master." Section 497 read as follows: Because of this problematic
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Hadiya court case


Supreme Court of India directed Hadiya to resume her internship, and that she was free to meet whomever she wanted. In March 2018, the Supreme court restored Hadiya's marriage, 10 months after the Kerala High Court annulled it. This case is often reported in media with headline containing the term love jihad. Key organisations and people involved and mentioned in Hadiya's High Court and Supreme Court cases are as follows. Hadiya, who grew up as Akhila Ashokan, belonged to a family from Vaikom, Kottayam. She is the
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K. S. Hegde


Kawdoor Sadananda Hegde (11 June 1909 – 24 May 1990) was an Indian jurist and politician who served as a judge in the Supreme Court of India and later as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Hegde founded the Nitte Education Trust. He is the father of Santhosh Hegde, who also served as a judge in the Supreme Court of India. Hegde served as a public prosecutor from 1947 to 1951. In 1952, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, a position which he held until 1957. In 1967,
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Sushma Swaraj


citizens from Nepal during the earthquake in 2015. During the times of Emergency, on 13 July 1975, Sushma Swaraj married Swaraj Kaushal, a peer and fellow advocate at the Supreme Court of India. The Emergency movement brought together the couple, who then teamed up for the defence of the socialist leader George Fernandes. Swaraj Kaushal is now a senior advocate of Supreme Court of India and a criminal lawyer who served as Governor of Mizoram from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of parliament from 1998 to 2004. The couple
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Ashok Desai (judge)


6.}} Despite his early set back, only by his sheer determination and hard work Justice Desai achieved prominence as an advocate and then as a Judge. He got married to Aruna Desai who was a teacher. Justice Desai has two sons, Satyajit A. Desai and Abhijeet A. Desai, both of them are lawyers. Satyajit Desai practices in the Supreme Court of India and is married to Anagha Desai, who is an Advocate-on-Record in the Supreme Court of India. Abhijeet Desai Practices in the Bombay High
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Code of Criminal Procedure (India)


terms over the substantive period awarded. The Code and the Constitution of India together provide for multiple ranges of appellate remedy. A person convicted by the High Court exercising original criminal jurisdiction may appeal before Supreme Court. Where the High Court has, on appeal reversed an order of acquittal and sentenced him to death and imprisonment for a term of ten years or more, the accused may appeal to the Supreme Court. The Constitution provides that an appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court against the direction of Supreme Court if the High Court
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Government of NCT of Delhi v. Union of India


Government of of Delhi versus Union of India Another [ 2357 of 2017] is a civil appeal heard before the Supreme Court of India by a five-judge constitution bench of the court. The case was filed as an appeal to an August2016 verdict of the Delhi High Court that ruled that the lieutenant governor of Delhi exercised "complete control of all matters regarding National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi", and was heard by the supreme court in November and December2017. The supreme court pronounced its judgment in July2018; it
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2016 Indian banknote demonetisation


Ahamed, General Secretary of the Indian National League, to scrap the decision of demonetisation. The High Court dismissed the PIL stating that it could not interfere in monetary policies of the government. Similar PILs were also filed in the Supreme Court of India. In November 2017, the Supreme Court of India referred all cases related to demonetisation to constitutional bench to review the legality of the demonetisation, implementation irregularities and violation of people's rights by limits on cash withdrawals. The government had initially announced that any person who is unable to
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Judicial review in India


varies between jurisdictions, so the procedure and scope of judicial review may differ between and within countries. In India, a judicial review is a review of government decisions done by the Supreme Court of India. A court with authority for judicial review may invalidate laws acts and governmental actions which violates the Basic features of Constitution. Related articles for the judicial review For Supreme court Article 32(Right to Constitutional Remedy) and Article 136(Special leave to appeal by the Supreme Court). For High Court Article 226(Power of High Courts to issue certain writs
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National Eligibility cum Entrance Test


decision on NEET UG was planned to be taken after the verdict of the Supreme Court of India. The Central Board of Secondary Education announces the results and the All India Merit List for NEET-UG. The merit list and the wait-list are prepared as per the directives of the Supreme Court of India, DGHS, MCI and DCI. The results for 2013 were announced on 5 June. NEET was declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India in 2013. However, it was restored on 11 April 2016
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P. B. Sawant


P. B. Sawant (born 30 June 1930) is a former Supreme Court judge in India. After obtaining his law degree (LL.B.) from Bombay University, Sawant started practicing as an advocate initially at the Bombay High Court and later at Supreme Court of India. In 1973 he was appointed Judge of the Bombay High Court; among his notable acts was an inquiry on the Air-India aircraft crash in June, 1982. He was appointed justice in the Supreme Court in 1989. Since his retirement in 1995, he has
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Mohammad Aeltemesh


Mohammad Aeltemesh, also known as Aeltemesh Rein, was an Indian lawyer who practiced before the Supreme Court of India from 1978 until the early 2000s. "A lawyer once enrolled under the Advocates Act, may practice throughout India." This contention was raised by him before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India upon which the Government was asked to notify section 30 of the Advocates Act. It took the government more than a decade to notify Section 30 of the Advocates Act. Mohammad Aeltemesh was born the first of the nine children of
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Special Leave Petitions in India


India under Article 136 vests the Supreme Court of India, the apex court of the country, with a special power to grant special leave, to appeal against any judgment or order or decree in any matter or cause, passed or made by any Court/tribunal in the territory of India. It is to be used in case any substantial constitutional question of law is involved, or gross injustice has been done. It is discretionary power vested in the Supreme Court of India and the court may in its discretion refuse to grant
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Supreme Court of India


Amendment which prevented any court from reviewing any amendment to the constitution with the exception of procedural issues concerning ratification. A few years after the emergency, however, the supreme court rejected the absoluteness of the 42nd amendment and reaffirmed its power of judicial review in "Minerva Mills v. Union of India" (1980). After Indira Gandhi lost elections in 1977, the new government of Morarji Desai, and especially law minister Shanti Bhushan (who had earlier argued for the detenues in the "Habeas Corpus case"), introduced a
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Soni Sori


might be expected. However, an inquiry by India's Supreme Court determined that sexual torture had occurred. On 8 January 2013, Supreme Court of India allowed Sori's request for shifting from the Raipur Central Jail to the Jagdalpur Jail. Court recorded that she had been shifted to the Raipur Central Jail on her own request. Sori had complained of sexual harassment from jail officials at the Raipur prison. The order was passed after lawyers who appeared for Chhattisgarh government were not opposed to the plea. The Chhattisgarh government submitted to the
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2018 Supreme Court of India crisis


This case of investigation of death of BH Loya, was given to a lower order bench, consisting of Justice Arun Mishra who is alredy alleged for giving favourable and biased judgements. Supreme Court judges Jasti Chelameswar, The for judges argued that this case should be given to senior judges. Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph alleged against allotment of matters to benches and constituting Constitution Benches was done by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in a way that arbitrarily ignored Senior Judges of the Court. That important cases were heard
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Dowry system in India


got much coverage from Indian and international media. Nisha Sharma was portrayed as a youth icon and a role model for other women. The case ended in 2012, after the court acquitted all accused. The Chief Justice Magistrate observed that Nisha was in a relationship with another person Navneet, who she really wanted to marry. Section 498A IPC was challenged but upheld by the Supreme Court of India in 2005. In 2010, the Supreme Court lamented about the possible misuse of anti-dowry laws in "Preeti Gupta & Another v.
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Ashok Desai (judge)


started practicing in the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and continued rendering services to the needy litigants. In August, 2003, he was designated as Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. In April 2004 he was elected as Senior Executive for the Supreme Court Bar Association. Justice Ashok Desai was keenly associated many Committees and Institutions, such as, the Indian Law Institute at New Delhi, Centre for Corporate Research & Training set up by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Legal Education Committee, Bar Council of India, and
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Law Commission of India


same for approval before the Parliament. The Law Commission of India, though an ad hoc body, has been key to law reform in India. Its role has been both advisory and critical of the government's policies. The Supreme Court of India and academia have recognized the commission as pioneering and prospective. In a number of decisions, the Supreme Court has referred to the work done by the commission and followed its recommendations. The fact that the chairman of the commission is generally a retired judge of the Supreme Court has helped
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Supreme Court of India


been framed under its powers under Article 145 of the constitution, the supreme court may review its judgment or order but no application for review is to be entertained in a civil proceeding except on the grounds mentioned in Order XLVII, Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Under Articles 129 and 142 of the constitution the supreme court has been vested with power to punish anyone for contempt of any court in India including itself. The supreme court performed an unprecedented action when it directed a sitting minister of state in Maharashtra government,
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