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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has recommended the appointment of his successor justice Sanjiv Khanna, top court's senior-most judge after the CJI, to the Centre. CJI Chandrachud, who took charge on November 9, 2022, is set to demit office on November 10.

Guwahati: The dilemma of cut of date continued to linger in Assam for several decades, while the Supreme court on Thursday upheld validity of Section 6A of Citizenship Act which conferred citizenship benefits to persons from Bangladesh who settled in Assam and had entered India between January 1966 and March 25, 1971, there are documents and recommendations which stipulates 1951 as the cut of date for identification of foreigners. The All Assam Students Union (AASU), which spearheaded a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam in 1979-85, welcomed the Supreme Court judgment upholding the validity of Section 6A of Citizenship Act. AASU's chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharjya said with its order on Section 6A of Citizenship Act 1955, the Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval to the Assam Accord under which all those who had entered Assam illegally must be detected and deported from the country. «We wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court verdict. It is a historic verdict. It has established that the Assam agitation was undertaken with genuine reasons and all provisions of the Assam Accord are now legally validated by the apex court.”

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Supreme Court on Thursday said it will decide the constitutional validity of penal provisions in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) which grant immunity from prosecution to a husband for the offence of rape if he forces his wife, who is not a minor, to have sex with him. A bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra sought views of the petitioners on Centre's contention that making such acts punishable would severely impact the conjugal relationship and cause serious disturbances in the institution of marriage. Senior advocate Karuna Nundy, appearing for one of the petitioners, opened the arguments and referred to the provisions of the IPC and BNS on marital rape. «It is a constitutional question. There are two judgments before us and we have to decide. The core issue is of the constitutional validity (of the penal provisions),» the CJI said.

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Assam Accord of 1985, on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court judgement regarding the pact's cut-off date and said it re-established the «rationality» of the historic agreement. Hours after the apex court pronounced its judgement, AASU welcomed the verdict and said it is the victory of the struggling people of Assam who have stood selflessly in favour of the Assam Accord for the past four decades. In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act which grants Indian citizenship to immigrants who came to Assam between January 1, 1966 and March 25, 1971. A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, said the Assam Accord was a political solution to the problem of illegal migration.

Karti Chidambaram and others in connection with alleged bribery in facilitating visas of Chinese nationals for a power company in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the Union home minister, officials said on Thursday. In its charge sheet submitted before a special court here, the CBI has named Karti Chidambaram, the Lok Sabha MP from Sivaganga, his alleged close associate S Bhaskararaman, company Talawandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL), a subsidiary of Vedanta and Mumbai-based Bell Tools, through which bribes were allegedly routed, they said. The agency has invoked charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, and forgery under the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, they said. Other charge-sheeted accused include Viral Mehta, Anup Agarwal, Mansoor Siddiqui and Chetan Shrivastava, they said.

NCDRC) has ordered the Indian Railways to pay approximately Rs 4.7 lakh in compensation to a passenger whose belongings were stolen on the Amarkantak Express in May 2017. The commission found that while the passenger took «reasonable precautions» to secure his luggage, the ticket collector (TTE) failed to prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the reserved coach. The incident occurred on May 9, 2017, when Dilip Kumar Chaturvedi and his family traveled from Katni to Durg in a sleeper coach. Around 2:30 AM, Chaturvedi reported to the railway police that his luggage, which included cash and valuables worth approximately Rs 9.3 lakh, had been stolen. Following this, he lodged a complaint with the Durg district consumer commission, which ordered several railway officials to compensate him for the loss.

The ruling by Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, emphasises the importance of judicial integrity. The court stated, «We are of the view that the description of the order and the judge is prima facie contemptuous and amounts to interference in proceedings.» Senior advocate Akhil Sibal, representing Wikipedia, clarified that the platform did not create either the critical page or the discussion section. Previously, on September 6, the court had cautioned the open-source platform that it would block the website in India if it failed to adhere to local laws.

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Supreme Court on Thursday deferred to November 27 the hearing on the question whether its 2022 verdict upholding the Enforcement Directorate's powers to arrest and attach property under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act required any reconsideration. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Surya Kant was informed by a lawyer that senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the petitioners, was not available today. «This is what happens. When we list, somebody is not available,» the bench said. The request of adjournment was not opposed by the ED's counsel.

Assam Accord, sets the framework for granting citizenship to certain migrants in Assam. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, along with Justices Surya Kant, MM Sundresh, and Manoj Misra, supported the decision, while Justice JB Pardiwala dissented. The Assam Accord, signed in 1985 between the Indian government and the representatives of the Assam Movement, was a response to the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, which resulted in a large influx of migrants into Assam. Section 6A was enacted as a humanitarian measure and allows individuals who migrated between January 1, 1966, and March 25, 1971, to obtain Indian citizenship under certain conditions.

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