The Supreme Court on Friday prohibited the filing of any pleadings (filing of documents or affidavits) in a case relating to a dispute over the contentious issue of who should control administrative services in Delhi over the transfers and postings of officers in the national capital.

New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that promising and distributing freebies by political parties during elections is a "serious issue" and an amount has to be spent on infrastructure etc.

New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Wednesday declined to allow a senior advocate to mention cases for urgent listing and said only Advocates-on-Record or their junior colleagues will mention the matters now.

New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that a charge sheet has been filed against 30 persons in the matter related to vandalism at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.

New Delhi Apr 24 PTI The Congress on Sunday hit out the Centre over a reported proposal of rate rationalisation under the GST regime to bolster revenues alleging that the government was acting in a deceitful dubious and dissembling manner with the people especially the middle classThe attack by the Congress came over a media report which said that as part of a proposed rate rationalisation under the Goods and Services Tax GST regime to bolster revenues the GST Council the governing body for the indirect tax regime has sought views of states for hiking rates on 143 itemsOf these 143 items 92 per cent are proposed to be shifted from the 18 per cent tax slab to the top 28 per cent slab the report saidHitting out at the government over the issue Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said something like this hits the common man who is crushed and it hits the middle class which is frequently forgotten by everyoneDont forget these are 92 per cent of a large list of 143 items and these items include jaggery pappad handbags suitcases colour TV sets below 32 inches walnuts chewing gum chocolates and custard powder I do not see any method in the madness I dont see any logic and rationale to jump these into the highest categories the Congress leader saidYou have to see these issues contextually you are hopefully towards the end of Covid but you are recovering from Covid You cannot forget Covid You have hit them people left right and centre with 145 per cent WPI Wholesale Price Inflation you have hit them with even worse 75 per cent retail price inflation Now you are hitting them in the solar plexus with GST proposal to increase 120-125 items to a 28 per cent GST slab Singhvi saidThis government is all about treacherous tricky and terrible and it is deceitful dubious and dissembling he allegedThe government have no concern and care for the truth consistency honesty and straight-forwardness Singhvi saidWe condemn such duplicitous behaviour most importantly with the common man he said PTI ASK ASK ANB ANB

New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear next week the plea for hearing filed by Maharashtra BJP MLA Girish Mahajan challenging the validity of new rules of the open voting method to elect the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the state Assembly.

New Delhi Jan 27 PTI The Supreme Court Thursday directed Maharashtra Police to not to arrest BJP MLA Nitesh Rane for 10 days in an attempt-to-murder case registered in Sindhudurg district Disposing of the pre-arrest bail plea of Rane son of Union Minister Narayan Rane a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana asked him to surrender before the trial court in the meanwhile and seek regular bail in the matter The SLP special leave petition is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner Nitesh Rane to surrender before the trial court and obtain a regular bail and for a period of 10 days he is protected from arrest ordered the bench which also comprised Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli The bench heard submissions from senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Siddharth Luthra appearing for Rane and senior lawyer A M Singhvi on behalf of the state government on the appeal of the BJP MLA against the denial of pre-arrest bail by the Bombay High Court We have not observed anything on merits it made clear saying the trial court would decide the regular bail plea on merits At the outset the bench said Why dont you surrender and go in for regular bail After hearing brief submissions from Rohatgi the CJI turned to Singhvi and observed in lighter vein You are appearing for the state What is all this political virus Singhvi said the case is not as simple as projected by Rohatgi Rohatgi initiating the arguments said the entire case of attempt-to-murder has been cooked up out of political vendetta Can the attempt-to-murder case be lodged for a simple injury caused by a paper-cutter I am saying only two things One is that it is the case of the paper cutter and two it is a case of simple injury he said A small petty case where a paper cutter is used as the weapon of offence has been made into an attempt to murder case and this shows the limit where the state and the ruling party can go against a man who is a two time MLA The Maharashtra police is more loyal than the king he alleged adding that the five cases which were used as ground showing criminal antecedent of the accused were political agitation cases The conspiracy is to kill this man with a paper cutter at 11 AM in public And what is charged against me -- Attempt to murder Rohatgi said adding that the case was cooked up as a retaliation to the cat-call incident in the state Assembly We are not deciding the appeal after the trial We are hearing the anticipatory bail and let the trial court decide all these things the bench said and asked Rane to secure regular bail from the trial court Singhvi said that the accused hatched the conspiracy with accused Satpute The Bombay High Court on January 17 had refused to grant pre-arrest bail to Rane in the case noting that a balance was needed between conflicting considerations of personal liberty and a proper investigation in the matter A single-judge bench of the high court had rejected the anticipatory bail applications of Rane and another accused Sandesh Sawant but had allowed a similar plea of the third accused in the case Manish Dalvi The case relates to an alleged attack on a Shiv Sena activist in the coastal district The high court in its order had noted that conducting proper investigation was paramount and that custodial interrogation was required We accept the polices statement that it wont take any coercive action against the applicant Nitesh Rane till January 27 by the way of last chance the high court had said Nitesh Rane Sawant and Dalvi had sought anticipatory bail in the case registered against them by the Sindhurdurg police in December 2021 under sections 307 attempt to murder 120 b criminal conspiracy and 34 common intention of the Indian Penal Code IPC While the Kankavli MLA had claimed he was implicated in a false case due to political reasons the police asserted that Nitesh Rane was the mastermind of the attack on a Shiv Sena activist and the prime accused The case pertains to alleged attack on Shiv Sena activist Santosh Parab during the campaigning for the Sindhudurg District Co-operative Bank elections According to the MLA he was being targeted by Maharashtras ruling party Shiv Sena which heads the MVA government as it felt insulted and hurt by an alleged incident of mocking outside the state legislature complex last month A Shiv Sena MLA had alleged that Nitesh Rane had made meow meow sounds looking in the direction of Maharashtra minister and Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray while he was going inside the Vidhan Bhavan building in Mumbai on December 23 during the winter session of the legislature The Kankavli police had opposed Nitesh Ranes application stating that it was fallacious to say that he was being targeted due to political reasons or because of a dharna he had held outside the Vidhan Bhavan on December 23 2021 Apart from Nitesh Rane Dalvi and Sawant six more persons have been named as accused in the case and arrested The Rane family was associated with the Shiv Sena for long before falling out with the party PTI SJK SA

New Delhi Nov 17 PTI Under attack for his monologue I come from two Indias stand-up comic Vir Das has found backing in Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor but criticism from their party colleague Abhishek Manu Singhvi for vilifying the nationAs the issue gathered steam senior Congress leader Sibal on Wednesday tweeted that none can doubt that there are two Indias Just that we dont want an Indian to tell the world about it We are intolerant and hypocritical he tweetedIn a tweet Tuesday night Tharoor praised Das as a stand-up comedian who knows that the real meaning of the term stand up is not physical but moralDas spoke for millions in the six-minute take on the Two Indias he hails from and stands up for he saidTagging a tweet by a person who said he has filed a complaint against Das with Mumbai police Tharoor tweeted We know which India this comes from However Singhvi hit out at Das saying that generalising the evils of a few individuals and vilifying the nation as a whole in front of the world is just not doneThe people who painted India in front of the west as a nation of saperas and luteras during the colonial rule have not ceased to exist the Rajya Sabha MP said on Twitter using the hashtag VirDas Das who is currently in the US on Monday uploaded a video on YouTube The six-minute video titled I come from two Indias is part of his recent performance at the John F Kennedy Centre in Washington DC The well-known artiste who has also dabbled in cinema touched on various topics in the clip including the farm protests the battle against Covid the duality in response to women particularly rape and the crackdown on comediansA day later he issued a statement clarifying that his comments werent intended to insult the countryA section on Twitter posted clips and pictures from his monologue many picking on what he said about women -- I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gang-rape them during the night Please do not be fooled by edited snippets People cheer for India with hope not hate People clap for India with respect not malice You cannot sell tickets earn applause or represent a great people with negativity only with pride I take pride in my country and I carry that pride across the world Das said PTI ASK MIN MIN

New Delhi [India], November 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that TV debates are causing more air pollution than anything else and everybody has their own agenda while hearing cases relating to increasing air pollution in Delhi-NCR.

New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): The Delhi government on Wednesday again urged the Supreme Court for an early listing of its petition challenging the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021, which enhances the powers of Delhi Lieutenant Governor over the elected government.