On December 11 (Monday), the Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on a series of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud also sought an estimate of all illegal immigrants to India, including but not limited to Assam, after March 25, 1971, when the war of Bangladesh began.
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Unique Identification Authority of India and the Manipur government to take steps to ensure that Aadhaar cards are provided to people who lost their 11-digit unique identification number during the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur, even as it emphasised the need for prior necessary verification to ensure that "illegal immigrants" didn't get undue advantage of the exercise.
According to Article 1 of the Constitution, “India, that is, Bharat, shall be a Union of States.” It's crucial to emphasise that Article 1 of the Constitution recognises both 'India' and 'Bharat' as official names for the country.
The Supreme Court said on Friday that trials in the cases that were transferred to the CBI will take place in Guwahati and asked that the Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court nominate judges who are conversant with one or more languages spoken in Manipur.
A month after a video of two tribal women being stripped naked in violence-hit Manipur went viral on social media, now another horrifying incident has come to light.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the Manipur government's status report on 6,523 FIRs points to an "absolute breakdown of the constitutional machinery" in the state since ethnic violence broke out at the beginning of May.
The Supreme Court directed the Manipur Director General of Police to be personally present in the Court in the next hearing and to be in a position to answer the questions of the Court.
