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Supreme Court objects to Karnataka HC judge calling Bengaluru locality ‘Pakistan’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda's purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI D Y Chandrachud took suo motu cognisance of Justice Srishananda's controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality in the course of observations on traffic rule violation, which trended on social media along with his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer.The CJI constituted a bench of the top five judges - Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy besides him - to record SC's displeasure over judges going overboard...

18Sep

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Will withdraw duty-hour curbs on women, WB says after SC rap | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to the gender-discriminatory circular of the West Bengal health department, issued 10 days after a woman doctor's rape-murder on Aug 9 night at the RG Kar Hospital, advising hospitals to limit women doctors' duty to 12 hours and avoid assigning them night duties.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the West Bengal govt, how a state could impose such restrictions on women doctors when women as pilots and as part of the armed forces are doing duties in the night."How can you discriminate against women, and suggest to govt medical colleges and hospitals to assign only 12-hour duty to women doctors, when their male counterparts would be doing 36 hours of c...

18Sep

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Postings of 3 HC CJs-designate changed on govt ‘sensitive info’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Finding merit in the "sensitive information" provided by the Union government, the Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday reconsidered its July 11 recommendation for appointment of chief justices to seven high courts and routed three of them to different HCs.The collegium led by CJI D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai superseded its earlier recommendations for Justices Suresh Kumar Kait, who was to become CJ of the HC of J&K and Ladakh; G S Sandhawalia, who was recommended as CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC; and Tashi Rabstan, who was recommended as CJ of Meghalaya HC.The collegium's resolution on Tuesday recommended appointment of Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji, a judge of Calcutta HC, as CJ of Meghalaya HC in place of Justice Rabstan. Justice Rabstan is...