The PIL was earlier being heard by a bench led by Justice MR Shah, which had refused to get into the maintainability of the pleas or expunge statements in the petition against minorities

CJI DY Chandrachud stated, "Everything which is important in the country need not come to us. There are democratically elected institutions to see this. They can deal with what falls under their control. We'll keep it on the 16th"

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and AS Oka disapproved the manner in which eviction was sought to be carried out by the Indian Railways

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench has held by way of a majority that statements made by a Minister, even if traceable to any affairs of state, cannot be attributed vicariously to the government

The Court held that there was a reasonable nexus to bring such a measure, and that demonetisation was not hit by the doctrine of proportionality

Case was not one challenging constitutional validity of exception under Sec 375. But what was not an offence at time of its commission cannot be termed as an offence by way of an interpretive process

The Minister was speaking in the Rajya Sabha in answer to the question put up by Congress leader Rajeev Shukla

The ABVP has been levelling allegations of “Hindu hate” and “anti-India propaganda” against the college’s Muslim professors since December 1, which led Prof Rehman to resign

Last month, CJI Chandrachud led bench had extended bail for Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid, a convict who co-conspired in carrying out the Godhra Train Carnage, on account of his wife suffering from Cancer

The Court said that the demand and acceptance of bribe can also be proved by circumstantial evidence in the absence of direct oral or documentary evidence