A bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit will hear the bail plea of Kerala-based journalist Siddiqui Kappan, activist Gautam Navlakha’s petition and a few necessary PILs on Monday, his first working day within the Supreme Court as CJI.
Justice Lalit took oath because the forty ninth Chief Justice of India on a non-working day within the Supreme Court on Saturday.
According to the trigger checklist uploaded on the apex court docket’s web site, CJI Lalit will preside over the bench in court docket primary together with Justice S Ravindra Bhat on Monday.
Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, who was arrested in October 2020 whereas on his approach to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, the place a younger Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped after he died, has approached the apex court docket for bail within the case.
His bail software was rejected by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court earlier this month. Kappan was booked below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act within the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.
His plea was directed to be listed on August 26 by former Chief Justice NV Ramana final week, when his plea was talked about for pressing listening to.
Chief Justice Lalit, together with Justice Bhat, may even hear an enchantment filed by human rights activist Navlakha, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlink case, in opposition to the Bombay High Court order dated April 26, rejecting his plea that or not it’s stored. House custody as a substitute of being jailed.
The case in opposition to Navlakha and different arrested accused pertains to the Elgar Parishad convention held in Pune on December 31, 2017.
The police had alleged that the occasion was funded by Maoists.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Lalit is scheduled to listen to a number of recent PILs on varied points.
The high court docket can be scheduled to listen to petitions difficult the Karnataka High Court’s determination, which had dismissed petitions searching for permission to put on the hijab contained in the classroom, which held that hijab was part of important non secular follow within the Islamic religion. Not there.
On August 2, the then Chief Justice NV Ramana, whereas listening to a plea for pressing itemizing of appeals and different petitions on the hijab controversy, mentioned the court docket would hear petitions difficult the Karnataka High Court’s determination.
The high court docket had agreed on July 13 to listen to the petitions difficult the Karnataka High Court’s determination on the problem.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
