Tag: Supreme Court
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Unnecessary Hijab ban debate is going on in Supreme Court: Ashok Ganguly
Kolkata: Former Supreme Court Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly has said that the hijab ban debate going on in the Supreme Court is unnecessary and that the ban on hijab in educational institutions is undemocratic and unconstitutional. The former SC judge was commenting on the ongoing hijab ban controversy, especially the ban in educational institutions, while…
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From Supreme Court to Indian streets, remission in Bilkis Bano case challenged
Kolkata: The rapists and murderers in Bilkis Bano case have been released to erase the 2002 Gujarat Riots, before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls but we will not forget it, said Jhelum Roy, a protestor while protesting in Kolkata against the remission of 11 convicts, who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered 14 of her…
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Diaspora condemns High Court for denying bail to Siddique Kappan
Washington, DC/Kolkata: The Indian diaspora urged the Supreme Court of India to immediately intervene and bail journalist Siddique Kappan, who is in jail for twenty-two months now without even doing a report. Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), in its press communiqué, commended about the SC’s earlier decision, in which Muhammad Zubair, the fact-checker with AltNews…
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Supreme Court directs Centre and State Govt to help sex workers, WB Govt allows them to have ration cards
Kolkata: Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Kolkata-based Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) the Supreme Court finally instructed the central and state governments to urgently consider providing relief to sex workers in the form of dry rations, monetary assistance as well as masks, soaps and sanitizers without insisting on proof of identity.…
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Saga of Justice: Then and Now
The story of a judge shaped my initial consciousness about our judicial system. The Patna High Court had a judge belonging to Gangpalia in 1960s or early 1970’s. Gangpalia was a kilometre away from Daraili Mathia—my village in the Siwan district of north Bihar. The judge used to spend his summer vacation at his village.…
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How two CJIs benefited from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
After the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster of December 2-3, 1984, it was the politicians, the bureaucracy and a significant section of the judiciary who only added to the miseries of the victims to further their own selfish interests. Two former Chief Justices of India (CJIs) stand out in this respect. R S Pathak virtually persuaded…
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Temporary breather for Imran Khan as of now, but what next?
akistani Prime Minister Imran Khan must be a relieved man. And the sudden breathlessness has been cured by the Supreme Court of Pakistan which has granted a six-month extension to the Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa while ordering the government to bring in legislation to determine the extension of tenure of the head of the…
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Reading SC order on Ayodhya: Condemn the Sin but Concede to Sinners
he five-member constitution bench of the Supreme Court began their 1045 page verdict by aptly calling the Ayodhya dispute almost as old as the idea of India. Then the bench reminded us of our ancient civilisational values of assimilation, inclusion and harmony as well as modern constitutional principles of secular democracy that our founding fathers…
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Open Letter to My Muslim Friends– “Do not build mosque on the 5 acres land”
y dear Muslim friends, Honour the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya. Let the Ram temple come up at the place where the Babri mosque stood till 1992 but don’t accept the five acres of land to build another mosque. The highest court of the land has not made it mandatory upon you accept the offer…
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PIL Filed at Jharkhand High Court for compliance of SC directive in lynching cases
Ranchi: An activist and former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Harsh Mander has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Jharkhand High Court for the compliance of Supreme Court orders given in Tahseen Poonawala versus Union of India. In 2018, on the petition of social activist Tahseen Poonawala, the Apex Court had issued directives…