Justice R Banumathi, who was the first woman from the State of Tamil Nadu to be elevated to the position of a Judge in the Supreme Court, is all set to retire on 19th July.
The Supreme Court on 13th July restored the right of “Managership or the Shebaitship” of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala to the royal family of Travancore but the administration of the temple will be managed by a committee headed by a District Judge.
The Central Government has submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court that the 2,600 Tablighis who participated at Markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin in March 2020, and became COVID-19 infected resulting in the spread of the infection across the country will not be able to return back to their country.
It has been over two years since then-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra recommended the impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Shri Narayan Shukla on charges of misconduct and judicial impropriety after an in-house committee of judges found “sufficient substance” in allegations against him.
Supreme Court has allowed Lord Jagannath Rathyatra to be held on 23rd June at Puri (Odisha). The bench has made it mandatory to hold the Rathyatra in coordination with temple committee, State Government and Central Government and by following the guidelines of Ministry of Health.
A day after the Supreme Court’s no to the Deity Jagannath Rath Yatra, a petition was filed in the apex court on 19th June for partial modification to the order to allow the religious event in Puri only amid a complete shutdown in the pilgrim town.
he Shri Jagannath Sena and Shrikshetra Suraksha Vahini have called for a ‘Puri Bandh’ in protest of the Supreme Court’s decision to deny permission to Deity Jagannath’s Rath-Yatra this year due to the corona crisis.
A Hindu body, Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh’ has moved the Supreme Court challenging a provision of a 1991 law that provides for maintaining “religious character” of holy structures as it existed on 15th August 1947, in a bid to open the litigation route to reclaim disputed religious sites other than the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
In a major archaeological finding, artefacts, broken idols of Deities, carvings on sandstones, etc. were found during excavation. Excavation of Idols and Shivlinga is a retort to Muslim non-applicants who call Hindus Talibani. – Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain