New Delhi, Nov 6 Following are the top Supreme Court stories on Friday:
LGD46 SC-JUDICIAL OFFICER-REPORT (5.18 PM)
**** The SC sought a status report from the Delhi Police Crime Branch on the investigation into the death of Delhi Judicial Services officer Aman Sharma, who was found dead at his South Delhi residence on May 2. ****
LGD44 SC-CREAMY LAYER-CENTRE (4.44 PM)
**** The SC reaffirmed its March 11 verdict which had held that the salary or income of a parent employed in a PSU or the private sector could not by itself be treated as the determinative criterion for creamy-layer exclusion for the Other Backward Classes (OBC). ****
LGD42 SC-2NDLD TARUN TEJPAL (4.34 PM)
**** The SC refused to suspend the 10-year sentence handed down to journalist Tarun Tejpal, convicted of raping a junior colleague inside a hotel elevator in 2013. ****
LGD41 SC-LLB COURSE-BCI (4.21 PM)
**** The BCI informed the SC that it has withdrawn the upper-age restrictions for admission to three-year and five-year law degree programmes, paving the way for aspirants of all age groups to pursue legal education ****
LGD38 SC-LD AIR POLLUTION (3.59 PM)
**** Expressing serious concern over the recurring air pollution crisis in Delhi-NCR, the SC termed vehicular emissions a major contributor to the deteriorating air quality and asked authorities why the air quality index continues to remain alarming despite several regulatory measures. ****
LGD36 SC-KPCC-LD CONTEMPT (3.19 PM)
**** Observing that independence of the judiciary is not a matter of “political convenience”, the SC issued a contempt notice to all office bearers of the Keralam unit of the Congress over a social media post targeting Chief Justice of India Surya Kant. ****
LGD31 SC-TN-LD ELECTION (3.09 PM)
**** The SC agreed to hear a plea filed by DMK leader K R Periyakaruppan challenging the victory of TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathi by one vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections held in April. ****
LGD26 SC-HP-LD BBMB DUES (2.00 PM)
**** In a major relief to Himachal Pradesh, the SC brought the curtain down on a decades-long inter-state energy dispute over the payment of dues arising from Bhakra Beas Management Board projects since 1966, under which the hilly state will get 11,973 MU of electricity from Punjab and Haryana. ****
LGD18 SC-ED-NEWSCLICK
**** The SC sought responses from news portal NewsClick and its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate challenging the Delhi High Court order quashing a money laundering case registered for alleged violation of FDI rules. ****
LGD7 SC-TN-ELECTION (11.58 AM)
**** The SC agreed to hear a plea filed by DMK leader K R Periyakaruppan challenging the victory of TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathi by one vote in the Tamil Nadu elections held in April.
(PTI News)
