Ashish Sinha

Why didn’t you go to High Court, SC asks HP Disqualified MLAs

March 13, 2024

The Supreme Court asked six rebel Congress MLAs on Tuesday regarding their failure to petition the High Court to challenged their disqualification, stemming from their cross-coting in the recent Rajya Sabha polls in Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh Assembly speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania had, on February 29, disqualified the six MLAs...

IUML-DYFI seeks stay on Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024

March 13, 2024

The day after the central government notified rules to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and DYFI have filed a petition seeking a stay on the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024. As the lead petitioner in a batch of writ petitions pending in the Supreme...

Electoral bond: Aiba urges ‘President’s Reference’ against SC decision

March 13, 2024

All India Bar Association President Adish Aggarwala has written a letter to President Draupadi Murmu on the cancellation of Electoral Bond Scheme by Supreme Court, demanding to activate the powers of Article 143 and bring a Presidential Reference on this issue. Adish Aggarwala writes that the Supreme Court’s historic judgment...

Delhi HC Reserves Verdict on Congress Party’s Plea against ITAT Order

March 13, 2024

The Delhi High Court reserved its verdict on Tuesday on a plea filed by the Indian National Congress party against an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) rejecting its application for a stay on the demand notice issued by the Income Tax (IT) department for the recovery of...

SBI furnishes e-bond details with EC

March 13, 2024

The State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday submitted to the Election Commission (EC) the details of the parities that had bought the now-scrapped electoral bonds, as well as the details of those who got them. With this, SBI has complied with the Supreme Court order to furnish information. Sources...

Validity of EC Act challenged in top court

March 13, 2024

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of Section 7 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023, urging for an urgent hearing. This plea, brought forth by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), sought relief against the provision dictating...

SC rejects Maha govt’s plea to stay Saibaba’s acquittal

March 12, 2024

The Supreme Court declined a Maharashtra government's plea on Monday to stay the acquittal of former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and others in the Maoist links case, stating that the Bombay High Court's decision vindicating them of the charges is "prima facie well-reasoned." A bench of Justices B...

Expulsion from Lok Sabha: SC to hear Mahua Moitra’s plea in May

March 12, 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday stated that it would schedule a hearing in May for TMC leader Mahua Moitra’s plea challenging her expulsion from the Lok Sabha. The Trinamool Congress leader’s plea was brought before a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta. Moitra’s counsel stated that they do...

SC to hear today 6 Himachal MLAs’ plea challenging disqualification

March 12, 2024

The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Tuesday (March 12) by six rebel Congress MLAs who cross-voted in the recent Rajya Sabha polls in Himachal Pradesh, challenging their disqualification. Kuldeep Singh Pathania, the Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, had disqualified the six upon the Congress’ plea for “defying”...

SC rejects West Bengal’s plea against transfer of Sandeshkhali ED attack probe to CBI

March 12, 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the West Bengal government’s plea challenging a Calcutta High Court to transfer the investigation into the January 5th attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in Sandeshkhali to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta dismissed the plea but...

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