New Delhi, Oct 28 Following are the top Supreme Court stories on Wednesday:
LGD3 SC-CYBER CRIME-PLEA (12:30 PM)
**** Terming cyber crime as “digital dacoity”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consolidate over 30 criminal complaints pending against two persons in 12 states for allegedly allowing the use of their company’s account as a mule for commission of various offences. ****
SC-LIVE STREAMING-LD CJI (12:50 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Wednesday closed live streaming of case mentioning in the court of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant. ****
LGD7 SC-CASTE CENSUS (12:58 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to introduce a pre-loaded drop-down menu for OBC castes in the digital enumeration tools for Census 2027 instead of requiring individuals to manually enter their caste. ****
LGD11 SC-CBI-WEST BENGAL (1:43 PM)
**** The CBI on Wednesday withdrew from the Supreme Court around 20 petitions filed by it seeking transfer of cases related to the 2021 post-poll violence in West Bengal outside the state, citing “changed circumstances”. ****
LGD12 SC-TRANSGENDER-WOMEN RIGHTS (1:48 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of the Centre on a PIL filed by a women’s organisation, raising concerns over the potential impact of transgender rights legislation on constitutional and statutory protections and benefits reserved for biological women. ****
LGD14 SC-MLA-BAIL (2:20 PM)
**** The Supreme Court has granted three-day temporary bail to Aam Aadmi Party MLA Chaitar Vasava, who was sentenced to seven years in jail by a Gujarat court in a 2023 criminal case, to attend to his ailing step-brother. ****
LGD23 SC-CONTEMPT-LD RAUT (4:59 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut to appear before it in person on November 17 in contempt proceedings over remarks concerning Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and the judiciary. ****
LGD24 SC-SIR-LOGICAL DISCREPANCY (6:13 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it has not yet adjudicated the legality of the Election Commission’s use of “logical discrepancy” category to scrutinise voters’ details during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. ****
LGD25 SC-DELHI SIR-EC (6:23 PM)
**** Observing that the right to vote is vital and it cannot be forfeited even if a voter is absent, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Election Commission to devise a mechanism to reach out to 47 lakh of 1.45 crore Delhi voters whose names were struck out in the draft voter list during the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls. ****
LGD26 SC-RAJOANA (6:33 PM)
**** The Centre on Wednesday opposed in the Supreme Court a plea filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana seeking commutation of his death sentence to a life term in the 1995 assassination of then-Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.
(PTI News)
