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The Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted a man who was convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 for accepting a bribe of Rupees 300 in the year 2003.The convict, who was working as a...

A two-judge bench presided by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, which took up the petitions on Tuesday, initially decided to hear it on May 2, as the court would be busy with some other Constitution bench matters in April.

The top court said that it is the duty of the court to inquire into mitigating circumstances as well as to foreclose the possibility of reformation and rehabilitation before imposing the death penalty

Any pressure is only towards arriving at the correct decision while adjudicating cases, Chandrachud says

The dispute surrounding the Pune Municipal Corporation and Indore Development Authority judgments of the Supreme Court on Section 24 of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 has revived again before the Supreme Court

"Judges are not part of any political affiliation and how can these people say that executive needs to be reigned in. How can they say this?", the law minister asked.

The CJI also spoke on pendency of cases, vacations and workload of judges, online trolling of judges, functioning of the Collegium, and more.

The letter said that a troll army, presumably sympathetic to the interest of the ruling party in Maharashtra, has launched an offensive against the CJI.

The new Constitution bench comprises CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices Hrishikesh Roy, PS Narasimha, JB Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra will sit from Tuesday, March 21

As I’m packing my bags to return to India to visit my girlfriend’s family, I am revisiting my trip to India in 2020 right before the COVID pandemic.