Tushar Mehta

Plea wants prosecution to be 'independent and insulated from the police'.

The top court had raised concern over the worsening air quality in Delhi-NCR

SC seeks ban on installation, production and advertisement of disinfection tunnels involving the spraying of chemical disinfectants on people.

The SC directed the court-appointed EPCA and chief secretaries of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh to assist the Lokur panel to enable it in physical surveillance of fields where stubble is burnt.

The Supreme Court, while hearing a plea which has raised grievance over the programme, said that the manner in which some media houses are conducting debate is a matter of concern as all kind of defamatory things are said.

The petition has contended that despite the Supreme Court decriminalizing consensual homosexual acts, marriages between same sex couples was still not possible in India and the further hearing is due for October 21 as per the submission by Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta.

Earlier, the top court had sought a response from the Bihar government on a plea of foreign Tablighi Jamaat members that their cases and subsequent trial be consolidated before one court in the state.

Recently, Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta alluded to journalists reporting on the miseries of common Indian citizens—particularly migrant workers and the poor—as “vultures”.