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Supreme Court is set to list on October 12, for procedural directions like appointment of nodal counsel, the case concerning the contours of a Money Bill and what kind of legislative items can be included in its passage

The Supreme Court on Friday said that it is deliberating to employ sign-language interpreters in all Constitution Bench hearings."I was telling the Secretary-General that now for Constitution benches, let us have an interpreter so that the ...

A 7-judge Constitution Bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, on Thursday reserved its verdict on a reference made against a 1998 judgment of the apex court granting immunity to lawmakers from criminal prosecution for accepting bribes to make a ...

A 7-judge Constitution Bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, on Thursday reserved its verdict on a reference made against a 1998 judgment of the apex court granting immunity to lawmakers from criminal prosecution for accepting bribes to make a ...

Here are some of the important cases which the Supreme Court heard on Thursday.* Delhi excise policy case: SC clarifies question was not to implicate AAPWhile hearing the bail pleas of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on ...

The Attorney General suggested a functional test, saying that immunity would extend to speech or acts of voting needed to discharge the duty of a legislator, without fear of consequences.

On Wednesday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, had told the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna, M M Sundresh, P S Narasimha, J B Pardiwala, Sanjay Kumar, and Manoj Misra, that the minority view of Justice S C Agarwal in the Rao case is the “correct view”.

The recently tabled Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), which aims to replace Code Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) misses out a great opportunity to reform our criminal procedure ...

A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court is reconsidering the Supreme Court's earlier judgment in the PV Narasimha Rao case, in which it was effectively held that Article 105(2) protects MPs from facing bribery charges.

This is the first time a 7-judge bench hearing is happening in the Supreme Court after 2017.