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Activist Teesta Setalvad was seen tutoring Shaheen Bagh protesters ahead of Supreme Court interlocutors addressing them. 

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has welcomed the Supreme Court’s judgement on Permanent Commission for women in Army.

Sanjay Hegde, the mediator appointed by the Supreme Court to convince Shaheen Bagh protesters is a man who has anti-CAA views. This was even pointed out by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. Sanjay Hegde was once caught peddling fake news. 

The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to grant permanent commission to all women officers in the Army within three months, terming the Centre's argument of physiological limitations and social norms for denying them command posts "disturbing". Let’s find out more about this watershed moment in Indian Army, in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

Vinay Sharma's petition challenging rejection of mercy plea was dismissed by the Supreme Court bench. Meanwhile, Justice R Banumathi fainted while hearing Centre's petition seeking separate execution dates of convicts in the Nirbhaya case.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all political parties to upload on their websites the details of criminals records against their candidates in Parliamentary and Assembly elections, along with the reasons for the selection of those with criminal antecedents.

Supreme Court has asked political parties to give reasons as to why they field candidates with criminal antecedents and also display related matter on their websites 

Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, challenged the President's decision to dismiss his mercy petition in the apex court on Tuesday.

Anyone opposing the CAA should go to the Supreme Court and challenge it constitutionally and government and people protesting are bound to abide by the decision.  Holding people and nation to ransom without any rhyme or reason should be dealt firmly under the provisions of the law. 

This article was first published in the magazine Spade A Spade. 

While hearing a petition on Shaheen Bagh protests, the top court has observed that protests can’t be held on public roads and others can’t be inconvenienced. 

Anti-CAA protesters have been staging demonstrations for over 55 days now. Even a month-old infant lost its life due to the cold weather in Delhi. 
 

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has refused to honour Pakistan’s request of an immediate hearing on Kashmir. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Central government's appeal against Delhi High Court order on Nirbhaya’s hanging.

The Central government has said that the 2018 Rules does not prohibit the execution of death sentence of co-convicts, one by one, on the rejection of their respective mercy petitions

The development comes a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea filed by another convict, Mukesh, challenging the rejection of his mercy plea by the President. The four convicts in the case are scheduled to be executed on February 1 at 7am.

Days after the Supreme Court dismissed Nirbhaya case convict Akshay's review petition in December last year, the top court will once again hear a curative petition filed by him on January 30