BREAKING | Delhi Court Remands Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal To ED Custody In Liquor Policy Case Till March 28

Special CBI judge Kaveri Baweja of the Rouse Avenue Courts passed the order after Kejriwal was produced today following his arrest last night by the central probe agency, hours after a division bench of the Delhi High Court refused to pass orders granting him interim protection from coercive action. Read More>>

Supreme Court Sets Aside Order Directing Bloomberg To Remove Article On Zee Entertainment Ltd

The bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the orders of the trial courts in granting ex parte ad interim injunction have not sufficiently applied the 3 fold test of granting temporary injunction. Read More>>

Inability Of State Police To Tackle Law & Order No Excuse To Invoke Preventive Detention : Supreme Court

The court underscored the distinction between 'law & order' and 'Public Order', stating that the expression 'law and order' in its affect is confined only to a few individuals, whereas 'public order' has a wide spectrum affecting the community or the public at large. Read More>>

Exempting Earth Extraction For Linear Projects From Environmental Clearance Arbitrary : Supreme Court Quashes Centre's Notification

One of the reasons the Court provided was that there is no specification on how much quantity can be extracted based on this exemption. Moreover, the Court observed that “linear projects” have not been defined, thus making the term very vague. Apart from this, no authority decides whether a project is linear. Read More>>

Supreme Court Transfers Petitions Pending Before Various HCs Against IT Rules 2021 To Delhi High Court

The Supreme Court today transferred to the Delhi High Court matters pending before different High Courts across the country against the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021). The order was passed to enable an analogous hearing on the issues, considering that a large number of petitions were already pending before Delhi High Court. Read More>>