Monday, May 23, 2022
Apr 09, 2019 Outlook Web Bureau Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has said that decriminalising martial rape would create absolute anarchy in families.
Dec 03, 2018 Outlook Web Bureau Justice Kurian Joseph said there were “perceptible signs of influence with regard to allocation of cases to different benches selectively”.
Justice Misra, said the constitutional sovereignty was supreme and India has a robust independent judiciary which is governed by rule of law.
Oct 04, 2018 Outlook Web Bureau Kerala Chief Minister informed that the state government would not file a review petition against the Supreme Court's verdict on Sabarimala temple.
The Sabarimala Temple had restricted the entry of women belonging to the age group between 10-50 due as part of its age-old tradition.
Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of a little over 13 months and would retire on November 17, 2019.
Outgoing CJI Dipak Misra said on Monday Indian judiciary is the strongest judiciary in the world having capability to handle mind boggling number of cases.
Amid all the controversies surrounding him, Justice Dipak Misra gave numerous judgements, especially towards the end of his term.
His term of 13 months and five days as the Chief Justice of India was perhaps the most turbulent for any Chief Justice.
The court pronounced its verdict on a clutch of pleas challenging the ban on entry of women of menstrual age in Kerala's Sabrimala temple.
The five judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra gave a 4:1 verdict.
Sabarimala temple doesn’t traditionally permit the entry of women of menstruating age.
The plea challeng the practice of prohibiting women in 10 to 50 age group from entering the Sabarimla temple.
Adultery should not be a criminal offence: CJI.
The court had taken a prima facie view that though the criminal law proceeded on "gender neutrality", the concept was absent in Section 497.
Supreme Court like the Modi government has stood with the poor of the country, Sambit Patra said.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had on May 10 reserved the verdict on the matter after a marathon hearing that went on for 38 days, spanning four-and-half months.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra pronounce the verdict.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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