The Centre requested the Supreme Court to set up a bench of five or more judges to adjudicate whether right to privacy was part of a citizen’s fundamental right given the conflicting rulings given by the apex court on this issue in the last 60 years.
Expressing concern over misuse of social media and Internet, the Supreme Court of India stressed the need for a new law to regulate social media to curb malicious and defamatory messages circulated online. It also said that the Parliament should bring a new law to regulate the social media.
1993 Mumbai serial blasts lone death row convict, Yakub Memon was executed on 30 July 2024 at the Nagpur Central Jail. The State Government of Maharashtra decided to hand over his body to his relatives, after completion of formalities.
The Supreme Court India on that fundamental right given under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution does not give an institution or a person or a citizen the fundamental right to affiliate or recognition of their institutions within the meaning of the Article 19(6).
The Supreme Court of India on 7 July 2024 issued notices to the Union Government, Election Commission (EC) and six political parties and asked why it should not be brought within Right to Information (RTI) ambit to make them more accountable to public.
The Supreme Court of India on 6 July 2024 ruled that an unwed mother can be the sole legal guardian of a child without the consent of the father.
Expressing serious discomfort on a PIL seeking disqualification of a candidate from contesting elections if a court framed charges against him or her for serious offences, the Supreme Court of India ruled that such candidate cannot be barred from contesting elections till he is proven to be guilty.
Narendra Modi led NDA government told the Supreme Court not to encroach into the executive’s domain and suggested that the judiciary would do better by devising ways and means to tackle massive pendency of cases.
The Supreme Court of India ruled that a Muslim’s fundamental right to profess Islam does not include practicing polygamy, though Muslim’s personal law permits men to have four wives.
With the assent of President Pranab Mukherjee to the judicial appointments commission bill, the collegium system of appointing judges to Supreme Court and high courts came to an end.
