New Delhi, Sep 24 Following are the top Supreme Court stories on Thursday:
LGD 33 SC-DEATH SENTENCE-COMMUTE (6.48 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence given to a man, who subjected her six-year-old step-daughter to repeated sexual assault and strangled her to death, to a jail term for remainder of his natural life. ****
LGD 36 SC-ODISHA-DGP (7.30 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Odisha government if it has put a senior IPS officer, whose name was excluded from a list of officers being considered for the DGP’s post, in the category of accused after the CBI stated that he might need to be questioned in a recruitment exam scam case. ****
LGD 34 SC-CREAMY LAYER-CENTRE (6.47 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine the Centre’s plea seeking a prospective application of its March 11 verdict that 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). ****
LGD 31 SC-CESAM (6.47 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday termed the issue of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Material (CSEAM) “extremely serious” and asked the Centre to focus on preventing such material from appearing online in the first place. ****
LGD 24 SC-COMMERCIAL COURTS-PLEA (4.48 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday sought updated data on the pendency of commercial cases and infrastructure available to commercial courts across the country. ****
LGD 23 SC-NSA-NOIDA DM (4.45 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday modified its interim order and stayed the strictures passed in the Allahabad High Court order against Noida DM Medha Roopam, including a direction to pay compensation of Rs 5 lakh from her salary for the detention of student Akriti Chaudhary under the NSA in connection with the Noida workers’ protest in April. ****
LGD 19 SC-MAMATA-LD EC (3.23 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission to apprise it of the time frame within which it can finally decide the dispute between the two rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress over its name and “flowers and grass” election symbol. ****
LGD 17 SC-CAUVERY (2.44 PM)
**** The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Karnataka government to respond to the Tamil Nadu government’s plea seeking release of its share of the Cauvery River water, alleging a shortfall in supply.
(PTI News)
