The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly disapproved of the midnight police crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev’s “sleeping” supporters at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan in June 2011 when he was on a hungerstrike against corruption.
The court said the government action was done in “undue haste” and was “overzealous”, but it also criticised Ramdev for “negligence” in abiding by the law.

The Supreme Court on Thursday watched the CCTV footage of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, collected by the Maharashtra police’s Anti-Terror Squad from different locations to convince the top court to sustain the death penalty to Pakistan terrorist Ajmal Kasab.

The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly disapproved the midnight police crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev’s “sleeping” supporters at Ramlila Maidan in June last year when he was on a hunger strike. In view of the concurrent findings on the “arbitrariness” of the crackdown, the top court directed the Delhi police commissioner that his officials found using “excessive force” like indulging in brick-batting, lathicharge and tear gassing upon the peaceful crowd, be proceeded against by registering criminal cases. “This action shall be taken against the officers/personnel irrespective of the ranks they hold.”

Kharak Singh, one of the names that came up during the investigations of the 26/11 terror attacks, is ‘ fictitious’.

During the proceedings of Pakistan terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s case, Supreme Court be

Who was “Kharak Singh” and what role he played in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was the curious query coming from the Supreme Court during the hearing of Pakistan terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s case and in response counsel for the Maharashtra government said it was a “fictitious” identity given by a man who prepared the ground work for the carnage and investigation is still on to find out the real face.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the CBI’s petition seeking restoration of “gift” remittance case against Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa and setting aside the Madras high court verdict quashing the trial court proceedings in the 15-year-old case. But the SC refused to grant interim stay on the HC verdict of September 30 last year.

Although the carving of a sub-quota for backward Muslims is dominating the campaign for the UP elections, it seems that the UPA at the Centre and the Mayawati government in the state have paid little attention to the two crucial orders passed by the Supreme Court in July last year, permitting states to enact laws to extend reservation beyond the 50 per cent limit fixed by it in the Mandal Commission verdict of 1993.

Two factions of the India chapter of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) are locked in an intense legal battle in the Supreme Court over the control of its Bengaluru temple, w

While the civil court declared the Bengaluru society as a separate entity entitled to control all Iskcon properties in Karnataka in an order of 2001, the Karnataka high court set it aside in its verdi

In an important ruling against the raking up of procedural intricacies by convicted accused in the high courts and the Supreme Court at the time of appeal, the top court has disapproved of such attempts by the accused in a bid to escape the punishment, especially when no such procedural issue was raised during the trial.