Pak court orders gender test in alleged same-sex marriage
Islamabad, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Pakistan court has ordered the formation of a medical board to test a person who is known to be a woman but claims to have changed her gender to marry…
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SC asks Centre, UT admin to file response on Internet ban in J&K
New Delhi, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to file its counter affidavit on the contempt petition filed by an NGO against the central government and Jammu and Kashmir administration…
HC notice on plea against guidelines mandating final year exams
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the Centre and others on a petition challenging the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines mandating the conduct of exams for final…
Note on Pinjra Tod member shared to save faith in police, HC told
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi Police, while refuting allegations of Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita, who is facing probe in a case relating to the Delhi riots, told the Delhi High Court that…
Palghar lynching: 12,000-page charge sheets filed against 250 accused
Mumbai, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a significant development in the Palghar lynching case, the Maharashtra Police’s CID on Wednesday filed two separate charge sheets totalling around 12,000 pages, naming over a whopping 250-plus accused, an…
SC seeks BCI response on plea for allowing lawyers to advertise
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court has sought the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) response on a plea seeking permission for lawyers to advertise and explore other avenues of income to support themselves…
SC Collegium nod to making addl judges of 3 HCs permanent
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court Collegium has approved the proposal for appointment of nine Additional Judges as Permanent Judges of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, the Himachal Pradesh High Court and…
SC rejects plea against 100% domicile quota in J&K jobs
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a plea challenging the 100 per cent domicile reservation in public employment through the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019 after the…
Maha’s 2017 directions on hill development plans ‘vague’, rules SC
By Sumit Saxena New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court has set aside the Bombay High Court verdict upholding the regulations framed by the Maharashtra government, through a notification in 2017 after a National…
Kerala Catholic priest wants to marry his rape victim
Kochi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery, 52, sentenced to 20 years in jail in three different cases of rape and abuse of a minor, has moved the Kerala High Court seeking to…
Palghar ‘sadhus’ lynching: No bail for 25 accused
Palghar (Maharashtra), July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Additional Sessions Judge D.H. Keluskar of Dahanu Sessions Court rejected the bail applications of 25 accused arrested in connection with the April 16 lynching of two ‘sadhus’ and their driver,…
Telangana HC again extends stay on Secretariat demolition
Hyderabad, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Telangana High Court on Wednesday extended the stay on the demolition of existing Secretariat buildings by another day. The court asked the Central government to spell out its stand if…
Can’t register FIR against Patanjali claim: Delhi Police tells court
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi Police on Wednesday told a district court that an FIR could not be registered against Patanjali Ayurved Limited, Ramdev and others on the charge of cheating people by…
Daily hearings on Maratha reservation case from July 27: SC
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will begin day-to-day hearing from July 27 through videoconference on a clutch of pleas filed against reservation for the Marathas in education and…
Kerala HC bans protests till July 31
Kochi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) A division bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday ruled that there should be no protests or demonstrations in the state till July 31 as it is in violation of…
SC seeks J&K govt response on detention of 73-yr-old bar leader amid Covid-19
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday queried the Jammu & Kashmir administration on the need to detain J&K High Court Bar Association President Mian Abdul Qayoom, who has been under detention…
Delhi Gymkhana Club turned from ‘vyayamshala’ to ‘madhushala’: Govt
New Delhi, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Central government has filed an appeal challenging the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order, which allowed it to appoint two members (Central government nominees) to the Board (General Committee)…
‘Recommend your case for reinstatement’: SC to MP woman judge
New Delhi, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Madhya Pradesh High Court to consider reinstating a woman district judge, who had levelled allegations of sexual harassment against a High Court judge….
Coal mines auction: Soren thanks SC for notice to Centre
New Delhi, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jharkahnd Chief Minister Hemant Soren has thanked the Supreme Court for seeking a response from the Centre on a plea by the state government challenging the decision to auction coal…
Rape accused Bishop Franco tests Covid positive
Thiruvananthapuram, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) A day after a court in Kerala’s Kottayam issued a non-bailable warrant against Jalandhar’s former Catholic bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually assaulting a nun between 2014 and 2016, for failing…