Judiciary

Justice BK Mukherjea, former Chief Justice of India, established a tradition of judicial independence. He refused Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru’s offer to become the Chief Justice before his time superseding two of his brother judges.

One of the review petitions was filed by lawyer Muzaffar Iqbal Khan who was also a petitioner in the main case earlier challenging the abrogation of Article 370.

The convicts, who will have to surrender to the jail authorities within two weeks and undergo the sentence of life term, were wrongly granted remission by the Gujarat government, the SC said.

Justice Kaul, who was a member of the Supreme Court collegium for over a year, said at present the collegium system is the law of the land and it must be implemented as it stands.

A curative petition is the final and last legal option available to the people/ party, concerned in a case, which is aggrieved by a court order, seeking justice from the judiciary.

The two probe agencies -- CBI and ED -- have accused P Chidambaram of conspiring with foreign investors to clear their venture.

The HC said the representation shall be decided by the Centre within three months.

Mahua’s petition sought enforcement of her fundamental rights recognised by the Constitution.

Earlier in the day, Singhvi mentioned Moitra's plea before a bench headed by senior-most judge Justice S K Kaul as the CJI was heading a Constitution bench.

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Noting that the Enforcement Directorate cannot keep people in pre-detention trial for so long, the apex court granted bail to the accused.

It was directed by the bench that the list of identified bodies should be duly intimated to the next of kin and the last rites should be performed with dignity and observance of religious rites.