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Insignia of the Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi. The Supreme Court of India is the highest court in the country. The maximum possible strength is 34. According to the Constitution of India, the judges of the Supreme Court must retire at the age of 65. [1] There are currently 32 judges (including the Chief Justice ...
At the same time, the supreme court—citing the report of the Balkrishnan Committee of 1987—ruled that although having a special status, Delhi was not a state; [65] [70] hence, unlike state governors, Delhi's lieutenant governor was not a mere constitutional figurehead but also bore the title of administrator. [65]
Menaka Guruswamy (born 27 November 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017 to 2019. [2] Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Toronto Faculty of Law. [3]
In December 2009, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, serving until May 2010, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. He was elevated to the Supreme Court on 10 October 2011. [2] [6] Misra had a tenure of thirteen months as chief justice at the Supreme Court after being appointed the 45th Chief Justice ...
India’s top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a ...
In arguments before the Delhi High Court in 2022, [17] [18] Nundy challenged the constitutionality of the marital rape exception. The High Court issued a split verdict, and the case is currently pending before the Supreme Court, where Nundy continues to advocate for legal equality for married and unmarried women. [19] Legalisation of Queer Marriage
WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to block Friday's sentencing in his New York hush-money criminal case, guaranteeing that Trump ...
The Supreme Court has not taken up the trial of many pending cases, since April 2014 (more than 6 years), challenging the validity of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, which was enacted by the Parliament without following the stipulated procedure in the Constitution, and is claimed detrimental to the basic foundation of the ...