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The Supreme Court on Monday (April 22) allowed an urgent plea for terminating the pregnancy of a 14-year-old minor rape survivor. While exercising its powers to do complete justice under Article 142...

The article discusses the power vested in the Supreme Court by virtue of Article 142 of the Constitution of India, with reference to the case of High Court Bar Association, Allahabad v. the State of UP.

India News: Supreme Court utilized Article 142 to dismiss criminal proceedings against a man under Section 498A of IPC, citing post-divorce harassment. The court

The Supreme Court of India has overturned an apex court judgement in 2018, ruling that stay orders passed by lower courts or high courts in civil and criminal cases cannot stand vacated automatically after six months. The court ruled that such a direction "virtually amounts to judicial legislation." The five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, also ruled that constitutional courts should refrain from fixing a deadline for disposal of cases by courts below...

India News: A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, which examined all eight invalidated votes and video footage of the poll wh

While the powers under Article 142 are extraordinary in nature, the apex court has defined its scope and extent through its judgments over time. Here is a look.

India News: Learn about Article 142 of the Indian constitution and its use by the Supreme Court to declare the Chandigarh Mayor poll results. Understand the power of Article 142 and its implications.

The CJI Chandrachud-led bench said Supreme Court must step in where exceptional situations develop to ensure basic mandate of electoral democracy is preserved. | Latest News India

SC said allowing the convicts to remain out of jail "would be an instance of this courts imprimatur to ignore rule of law and instead aid persons who are beneficiaries of orders" which "are null and void and therefore non est in the eye of law". The court added "it is the primary duty and the highest responsibility of this court to correct arbitrary orders at the earliest and maintain the confidence of the litigant public in the purity of the fountain of justice and ther...

India News: Rejecting the emotional plea of the 11 convicts that their liberty be not taken away, the Supreme Court on Monday said compassion and sympathy have no