Expect CJs of HCs to ensure speedy disposal of bail petitions: SC After learning that issues relating to bail and pleas for suspension of sentence after conviction were pending in HCs for months and getting routinely adjourned, a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said, “We are extremely disappointed over the manner in which matters relating to personal liberty of individuals are dealt with by the HCs.” #Chief_Justice #Justice_Surya #Surya_Kant #Joymalya_Bagchi #Justices_Joymalya #Expect_CJs #routinely_adjourned #bail_petitions #issues_relating #matters_relating
Bengal SIR row: Will rectify errors of ‘logical discrepancy,’ says SC A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said voters’ names should not be struck off the electoral rolls because of errors creeping into spelling of names during translation from Bengali to English or vice-versa. “We will ensure that it is rectified,” the bench said. #Surya_Kant #Joymalya_Bagchi #logical_discrepancy #Bengal_SIR #SIR_row #CJI_Surya #Justices_Joymalya #electoral_rolls #rectify_errors #errors_creeping
Will ban you for sharing users’ personal data, SC warns WhatsApp Dealing with appeals by WhatsApp, its parent company Meta which also owns Facebook, challenging a NCLAT decision that upheld Competition Commissions finding of abuse of dominant position against the social media giant, a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi scorched it with admonitions for violating right to privacy of Indian citizens. #Surya_Kant #Joymalya_Bagchi #CJI_Surya #Competition_Commissions #Justices_Joymalya #Indian_citizens #company_Meta #NCLAT_decision #upheld_Competition #Commissions_finding
For caste census, mere self-declaration cannot be enough: SC Appearing for social activist Akash Goel, advocate Mukta Gupta told a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that the directorate of census operations, which has commenced preparatory work for Census 2027, has not disclosed “any predetermined criteria or standardised methodology” for recording caste identity of people belonging to SC, ST and OBC categories during census. #Justice_Joymalya #Surya_Kant #Joymalya_Bagchi #Akash_Goel #Mukta_Gupta #CJI_Surya #advocate_Mukta #activist_Akash #Gupta_told #OBC_categories
‘Vague, capable of misuse’: SC stays new UGC rules amid uproar — key quotes A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre and the UGC on the pleas challenging the regulation. The new UGC regulations, notified on January 23, were challenged by various petitioners as being arbitrary, exclusionary, discriminatory and in violation of the Constitution as well as the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. #Chief_Justice #Justice_Surya #Justice_Joymalya #Surya_Kant #Joymalya_Bagchi #Bagchi_issued #amid_uproar #key_quotes #UGC_rules #rules_amid
