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SC Declines to Interfere in Punjab Gram Panchayat Poll Irregularities, Directs Election Tribunal to Decide Petitions in 6 Months

The Supreme Court today (November 18), while refusing to interfere in pleas alleging irregularities in Punjab Gram Panchayat elections, directed the Election Tribunal to decide upon the election petitions within…

Supreme Court Restricts Ajit Pawar Group from Using Sharad Pawar’s Image in Campaign Materials

On November 13, 2024, the Supreme Court intervened in the internal dispute within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), instructing the faction led by Ajit Pawar not to use images or…

The election of the Delhi Capital Badminton Association has been postponed until October 22nd by the Delhi HC

Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh gave notice on the LPA recorded by SP Singh Dhillon testing a solitary adjudicator seat request dated September 8, 2021 via which headings…

Karnataka High asks State to justify deferring local body elections

Recently, the Karnataka High Court directed the State government to give reasons justifying its stand to postpone the local body elections till December 2021. The court asked the reasoning behind…

CBI challenges top TMC leaders’ house arrest in SC and wants today’s hearing at the HC cancelled, according to the Narada Scam

The CBI filed a Supreme Court petition on Monday challenging a Calcutta High Court ruling authorising the house arrest of four Trinamool Congress current and former party officials from Bengal…

Andhra Pradesh HC: Article 329 of the Constitution shall prevail over Article 226

A writ petition was filed before the High court of Andhra Pradesh seeking to countermand the polling conducted in the district of Tirupati. It was stated that the polling conducted…

SC sought centre reply on plea challenging sedition law

Notice issued to the Centre by the Supreme Court on Friday in a plea which seeks to challenge the constitutional validity of section-124-A of the Indian Penal Code that penalises…

Madras High court -Election commission responsible for covid-19 second wave

The madras High court has came directly on the election commission of India for allowing the political rallies during COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Justice sanjib Banerjee told the election commission’s counsel…

Two held for distributing cash to voters in viralimalai Assembly constituency

Two persons who were belonging to Dravida munnetra Kazhagam has been detained after they were found allegedly distributing cash to voters in viralimalai Assembly constituency by Additional static surveillance team.…

Plea alleges BJP, Puducherry is using Aadhaar data to boost political mileage: Madras High Court expresses concern

In the Madras High Court, a petition has been filed calling for a court-monitored probe into whether the Bharatiya Janata Party has been illegally using Aadhaar data of voters in…