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Allahabad High Court on Gyanvapi. #gyanvapi #gyanvapimasjid #news #shorts #gyanvapisurvey Allahabad High Court dismisses Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee's challenge to the Varanasi District Judge's July 21 order for the ASI Survey of the Gyanva...

Allahabad High Court dismisses Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee's challenge to the Varanasi District Judge's July 21 order for the ASI Survey of the Gyanvapi.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would constitute a Constitution Bench to hear the petition challenging the practice of bigamy among Muslims "at an appropriate time".

The petition calling for the same was mentioned by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay before a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala.

Karnataka Hijab ban: Supreme Court delivers split judgment; matter to be heard by larger bench.

The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict in the challenge to the Karnataka government order (GO) effectively empowering government colleges in the State to ban the wearing of hijab by Muslim girl students in college campus [Aishat Shifa vs State of Karnataka].

Justice Hemant Gupta who headed the bench upheld the government decision while Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia struck it down.

"There is divergence of opinion. I have held against the appellant. I dismiss the appeal," he said.

Justice Dhulia, however, allowed the appeal and quashed the Karnataka government order.

Consequently, the matter will now be heard by a larger bench of the top court.




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Justice of India UU Lalit on October 11 named Justice D Y Chandrachud as his successor. CJI Lalit is set to retire on November 8.
Justice DY Chandrachud will have a tenure as CJI for a period of two years. He will demit office on November 10, 2024.
As per the memorandum of procedure, one month before a CJI is scheduled to demit office, the law minister writes to the country's top judge asking for the recommendation of the judge to be appointed as the next CJI.
The incumbent CJI names the second senior-most judge of the supreme court to take on the post of the CJI, as per this MoP.




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A case has been registered against three doctors for allegedly gang-raping a woman from Lucknow in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh.

The woman, a resident of Lucknow, approached the SSP of Basti district and handed over the complaint alleging that one of the three doctors befriended her on a social media platform around seven weeks ago and gang-r**ed her.

Police have started an investigation into the incident and the woman will be taken for medical examination. Besides, the process of recording her statement under CrPC section 164 before the judicial magistrate is under process.




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Plea against national emblem atop new Parliament building dismissed by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition claiming that the design of the national emblem atop the new Parliament building violated the State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act of 2005, reported Bar and Bench.
A bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari dismissed the plea noting that the judges have seen the emblem and held that it did not violate the law.

The plea was moved in July by two advocates, Aldanish Rein and Ramesh Kumar Mishra, who contended that the lions portrayed in the emblem appeared to be “ferocious and aggressive” as their mouths were open and canines visible.

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Excluding unmarried woman from terminating pregnancy beyond 20 weeks violative of Article 14: Supreme Court.

A Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, AS Bopanna, and JB Pardiwala held that Rule 3B(c) of the MTP Rules cannot be interpreted in a restrictive manner so as to deny right of abortion to unmarried woman beyond 20 weeks.

Girl accused of leaking objectionable videos of 60 women students of Chandigarh University; arrested.

"It's a matter of a video being shot by a girl student & circulated. FIR has been registered in the matter & accused is arrested. No death reported related to this incident. As per medical records, no attempt (to commit su***de) is reported, " said SSP Mohali Vivek Soni.