The Latest Breaking News from the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till September 26 the interim bail of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish, facing prosecution in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

The Supreme Court stayed the arrest of a woman lawyer who took part in a fact-finding mission to violence-hit Manipur and subsequently held a press meet for the National Federation of Indian Women.

The Supreme Court stayed a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order of January 9 appointing the Lieutenant Governor as the chairperson of a High Level Committee to combat unabated pollution in river Yamuna.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it will start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Supreme Court gave the Union government “sufficient time” till October 31 to clarify its stand on the validity of the Places of Worship Act, which protects the identity and character of religious places as they were on Independence Day.

The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from arrest to Marunadan Malayali editor Shajan Skaria while the Kerala High Court has noted that a journalist’s phone cannot be seized by the police in a case without following the legal procedure.

The Supreme Court said the Centre’s fresh affidavit claiming that Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an “unprecedented era of peace, progress and prosperity” post abrogation of Article 370 has “no bearing on the constitutional challenge” to the repeal of the provision. SC would start hearing the case from August 2.

Uddhav Thackeray reminded the BJP that it was the Shiv Sena who helped build their party on its shoulders when the latter “was nothing”. Read more on The Hindu

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the notifications issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the State Bank of India (SBI) permitting the exchange of ₹2,000 currency notes without requirement of any identity proof.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition has given initial approval to a contentious bill to limit the Supreme Court’s oversight powers