Manoj Misra

The Supreme Court has postponed hearing Dara Singh's remission plea, who is serving a life sentence for the Staines family murders, until July 14. The Odisha government requested more time, with the state sentence review board expected to consider his premature release on May 26. Dara has spent over 26 years in prison.

A key aspect of the case was the opinion of a Medical Board constituted pursuant to directions of the High Court. The Board examined the medical records and histopathology reports and concluded that the removed testicle was small, cystic, dysplastic, and exhibited focal fibrosis.

The Supreme Court has ruled that differential dearness benefit increases for serving employees and pensioners are arbitrary. Inflation impacts both equally, making a 14% DA hike for serving staff and only 11% DR for retirees discriminatory. The court stated that while financial constraints can justify implementation delays, unequal benefit rates violate the right to equality.

The Supreme Court clarified that using the word "bastard" alone, without sexual intent, doesn't constitute obscenity under IPC Section 294. Justices noted that such terms, common in heated arguments, don't inherently appeal to prurient interests.

In a recent development, the Supreme Court has rescheduled the hearing for Dara Singh's remission plea to May 13. The Odisha government has informed the court that a decision from the state's sentence review board regarding Singh, who is currently serving life for the tragic 1999 murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, is imminent.

Will the “complexity” of the NGT order on environmental compensation make it difficult to implement? The petitioner in the case, Manoj Misra, and scientists who developed the ‘Mailey Se Nirmal Yamuna Revitalization Project 2017’ don’t think so, but government agencies are not so sure.

About a month after raking up the issue of state government's bias towards slain sub-inspector Manoj Misra even when it went to give compensation of around Rs 45 lakh to family members of Mohd Akhlaque, who was allegedly lynched at Dadri, state BJP chief Laxmikant Bajpai paid visit to Misra's house in Bareilly.

The environmentalists who had criticized the Centre’s Rs 100-crore Budget proposal for development of river ghats are crying foul, saying these funds may not have been spent at all.

Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Wednesday carried out an anti-encroachment drive at the floodplain of the Yamuna near Zakir Nagar.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Union government’s four-year-old notification bringing all surgical instruments within the regulatory framework of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and rejected an appeal filed by Surgical manufacturers and Traders Association (SMTA). A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra the counsel or SMTA for close to 15 minutes at the admission stage and dismissed the appeal against a Delhi High Court

A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the deputy ministers are under Constitution just members of the council of ministers headed by the CM and nothing more. The bench dismissed a PIL challenging the appointment of deputy CMs on the ground that no such post finds mention in the Constitution. SC says appointment of dy CMs does not breach any provision of the Constitution.

A high court judge, Justice Manoj Misra, on Tuesday recused himself from hearing a special appeal filed by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC), challenging the order of a single judge bench by which it had quashed PCS Pre-2021 results on the ground that reservation to

The Supreme Court has directed cricketer Mohammad Shami to respond to his estranged wife's plea to transfer multiple cases, including a domestic violence one, from West Bengal to Delhi. The court issued notices to Shami and others, seeking their replies on the transfer petitions. This follows an earlier plea for increased maintenance for their daughter.

The Delhi high court on Monday ordered the Delhi Transport Corporation to vacate the land on the banks of the Yamuna and relocate Millennium bus depot.

The mammal is a distant relative of the whale and the Indian sub-continent has just about 2,000 left in its kitty.

IIT-Kanpur Senate, through orders dated October 9, 2017 and December 8, 2017, had suspended these students from their academic programmes and also asked them to leave the campus with immediate effect.

A SC bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra took note of the submissions of attorney general R Venkataramani, appearing for the chief secretary and the LG, and stayed the order of the Port Blair bench of the high court.

A group of independent activists, NGOs and researchers working on rivers have come up with what they call the Delhi declaration on rivers.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has decided to make available scanned copies of all its old reports/documents whose soft copies are currently not available. These scanned copies can be downloaded free of cost by anyone from the pollution watchdog’s website.

The Supreme Court has sought to clearly delineate the boundary of action by governors when a bill passed by a state assembly is sent for their assent by ruling that, being titular heads of states, they don’t have the power to veto legislative actions of elected governments or sit indefinitely on bills duly passed by the legislature. The November 10 judgment, passed on a plea by the Mann government in Punjab against governor Banwarilal Purohit, was uploaded on Thursday on the SC website.

Officials in the Maharashtra legislature have issued fresh notices to 54 Shiv Sena MLAs from rival factions, summoning them for a hearing on Monday. The notices come after the Supreme Court ordered the assembly Speaker to dispose of the proceedings against the legislators. The MLAs are expected to be given a schedule for the disqualification proceedings and informed about the estimated timelines and procedure. The Speaker had recently visited Delhi to discuss the Supreme Court's order with legal experts. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has alleged that the Speaker has caused constitutional embarrassment by delaying the process.

The Allahabad HC has stayed the arrest of a well-known film actor and his three family members in connection with a molestation and assault case filed by his estranged wife. Disposing of a writ petition filed by the actor and his brothers, a division bench comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Sanjay Kumar Pachori directed them to cooperate in the investigation.