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The Government of India informed the Supreme Court that it had received responses from 7 states – Rajasthan, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Maharashtra,

This comes nearly five years after another Constitution Bench of the court had ruled in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party-led state government in a similar tussle.

Supreme Court to deliver its judgment today in the Shiv Sena case relating to the rift between Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray factions. -- aaa

The Supreme Court of India has refused to interfere with the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra Government with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s support. The

After hearing all parties concerned for nine days, the Supreme Court handed down a 141-page judgment on the Maharashtra political imbroglio.

New Delhi, May 11: The Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment, effectively opened the doors for the disqualification of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for defection from the Shiv Sena party while holding that the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari’s call for trust vote, which led to the resignation of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government, was illegal.

The Court referred to a larger bench the question of whether the issuance of a notice of intention to move a resolution for the removal of the Speaker restrains them from adjudicating disqualification petitions.

With the verdict of the Constitution Bench, the L-G cannot issue orders directly to the officers except on reserved subjects, and the elected government has the power of transfers and postings

Spread over 10 days, a galaxy of India’s top lawyers argued on the batch of petitions seeking legal sanction to same-sex marriage.

Elected government, not LG, has power over services, rules top court