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The Supreme Court named the five judges on the Constitution Bench scheduled to hear petitions challenging the legality of the electoral bonds scheme, which facilitates anonymous donations to political parties.

using contract carriage permits, fix and collect the fare from individual passengers? No, said a Division Bench (comprising two judges) of the Madras High Court way back in 2016. However, the Supreme Court had stayed the High Court’s verdict on February 3, 2017 following an appeal preferred by the Tamil…

Madras HC dismisses ED's 18-yr-old appeal against insolvency notice issued to AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran. Bench held debt, debtor & creditor terms capable of wider meaning & application in insolvency maintainable for non-payment of penalty. Left 4th question open.

In the wake of the same-sex marriage verdict, The Hindu decodes what the top court has previously said about the fundamental right to marry and whether international human rights covenants recognise such a right.

Gujarat HC sentences four policemen to 14 days’ imprisonment with a fine of ₹2,000 for flogging Muslim men in Kheda. Court terms act as “inhumane” & “against humanity”, noting it caused physical torture & humiliation. Refused to accept apology, citing it would send wrong message to society.

The Hindu decodes the same-sex marriage verdict, the divided opinions on adoption rights and civil unions, and where the judgment sits in the larger queer rights movement in India.

A Constitution Bench held that “transgender persons in heterosexual relationships have the freedom and entitlement to marry under the existing statutory provisions”

Five-judge Constitution Bench holds non-heterosexual couples cannot claim unqualified right to marry; minority view of CJ and Justice Kaul holds State should carve out regulatory framework to recognise civil union; majority view of Justices Bhat, Kohli and Narasimha holds it's for legislature to recognise and grant legal status to non-heterosexual…

The judgment is eagerly awaited as the government had stiffly objected to the idea of a judicial declaration giving legal status to same-sex relationships, saying that would result in confusion and encroach into the legislative domain.