Tag: Indian Supreme Court

Restore normalcy in Kashmir, India’s top court tells govt

--Indian Supreme Court bench says restoration of normalcy should be in line with ‘national security’ --India's chief justice to visit occupied Kashmir to see citizens'...

India’s SC issues notice to govt on petitions challenging abrogation of...

NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the federal government on all petitions challenging the revocation of Article 370. The bench, headed...

India’s Supreme Court considers call to open mosques to women

India's Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider a petition from a Muslim couple to allow women into mosques, seeking to overturn a centuries-old...

India’s top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating...

NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Friday lifted a ban that prevented women and girls between the age of 10 and 50 from entering...

India’s Supreme Court rules adultery no longer a crime

India's top court Thursday ruled that adultery is no longer a crime, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional...

Decades-old case against ex-Indian cricketer Sidhu reopens

Supreme Court of India has decided to review a 1998 road rage case involving minister and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu. According to the Indian...

Indian troops martyr another two youths in fresh act of state...

People of IHK protest against petition challenging article 35-A ISLAMABAD: Indian troops martyred two youth in Indian held Kashmir's (IHK) Sopore district on Friday. Both...

India’s social media monitoring plan worries Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: A government plan to monitor social media could turn India into a “surveillance state”, the Supreme Court was cited as saying on...

Comparing India’s ‘divided’ SC with Pakistan’s ‘united’ apex court

  While the Indian SC is undergoing its worst crisis, Pakistan’s SC is fixated on resolving issues of governance ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India even after...

Indian Supreme Court rejects calls for probe into death of Judge...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when...

Indian Supreme Court declares copulating with wife below 18 as rape

  NEW DELHI: Copulating with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court of India said in a landmark decision to end an exception...

Indian Supreme Court turns down plea seeking cancellation of Indus Waters...

The Indian Supreme Court Monday dismissed public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the declaration of the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan as illegal and...