The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Andhra Pradesh government for not responding to its notice on the vandalism in AP high court during the Telangana agitation in September 2010 an

After forcing the government to decide 32 mercy petitions of death row convicts last year, the Supreme Court on Tuesday focused its attention on the remaining 18 pleas pending with the President, incl

The Supreme Court bench Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J.

The Supreme Court has decried the attempts by some convicted accused to rake up the decided issues in a case in the garb of cloudy fictions and ruled that a litigant does not have “unlimited” right to

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition for the use of its special writ jurisdiction under Article 32 of the Constitution in the row over the death penalty to Balwant Singh Rajoana, assassin

A day after the President stayed the execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana with the state CM Parkash Singh Badal personally pleading for stay of his hanging, the Supreme Court on Thursday took a serious view of the “political interference” in such sensitive cases terrorism.

Amidst the sharpening of the politics on the execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government whether repealing of harsh laws Tada and Pota could be a ground for considering the mercy petitions of death row convicts given capital punishment under these laws.

Amidst the sharpening of the politics on the execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s
assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government whether
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As the execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana has turned into a major political controversy, the Supreme Court on Tuesday put pointed queries to the Union and state governments about the long delay in deciding mercy petitions of death row convicts, which could lead to several other consequential effects.

In a major boost to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking his examination by two-member Nanavati-Mehta Commi-ssion probing post-Godhra riots, saying such questions of law could not be decided on the basis of the stature of a “personality”.