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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by a Madhya Pradesh district judge challenging the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the MP High Court over the sexual harassment allegations made by a junior judicial officer against him. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde granted him the liberty to appear before the inquiry. The judge sought quashing of disciplinary proceedings against him following the sexual harassment complaint by junior judicial officer. "You are walking on a very thin ice you can fall any time. You may have a chance in the inquiry they conduct you may acquitted. But as matters stand now, you are convicted. Sexual harassment allegations cannot be brushed under the carpet like this," the bench told senior advocate R Balasubramanium appearing for the judge and granted him liberty to withdraw the case here with liberty to participate in the inquiry. Earlier, the Bench had expressed its disinclination to quash the … [Read more...] about Cannot allow sexual harassment cases to be swept under the carpet: Supreme Court

Shamima Begum, the teenager who left Britain to join the Islamic State and was subsequently stripped of her UK citizenship after she spoke out about having no regrets about joining the caliphate cannot return to get her citizenship back, the Supreme Court has ruled. The 21-year-old woman, who went to the Islamic State in Syria aged 15 in 2015 and who married an Islamist fighter in the so-called caliphate had launched a legal challenge against the British government from a prison camp in North Syria, in the hope of getting her UK paper citizenship back. Britain reacted in revulsion after the so-called Jihadi bride spoke out about her time in the Islamic State, telling a television news crew that seeing the severed head of a non-Muslim in a bin “didn’t faze me at all”. The government caved to pressure and revoked her citizenship on national security grounds. Begum’s lawyers had argued that she had a right to a fair hearing, and not being able to return to Britain to fight her … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Orders ‘No Regrets’ Jihadi Bride Shamima Begum Cannot Return to UK

Selections to public employment should be on the basis of merit and appointing people with lesser merit ignoring those who have secured more marks would be in violation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has said. A Bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Indira Banerjee made the observation while upholding an order of Jharkhand High Court which allowed appointment of 43 persons for post of Police Sub-Inspectors on the basis of their merit after authorities prepared a revised select list correcting the irregularities. An advertisement was issued for the appointment to the posts of Police Sub-Inspectors, Attendants (Sergeant) and Company Commanders by the Home Department of the Government of Jharkhand in 2008. The final result was published and 382 candidates were selected but later a High Level Committee was constituted by the state government to examine the irregularities in the selection process. Unsuccessful candidates filed petitions in the High Court of Jharkhand at … [Read more...] about Ignoring merit in public job selection violation of Constitution: Supreme Court

LONDON: Britain's highest court will rule on Friday (Feb 26) whether Shamima Begum, a woman stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, can return to challenge the decision. The Supreme Court is due to give its judgment at 9.45am GMT (5.45pm Singapore time) in the case, which has come to be seen as a test of how countries treat nationals who joined the jihadists. Now 21, Begum left her home in east London at the age of 15 to travel to Syria with two school friends, and married an IS fighter. In 2019 she told The Times newspaper that she did not regret travelling to Syria and had not been "fazed" by seeing a severed head dumped in a bin. Britain revoked her citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds amid an outcry led by right-wing newspapers. Begum is being held in a camp in poor conditions, while her husband is reportedly in jail in Syria, and her three children have died. She is appealing to be allowed back into the UK so … [Read more...] about UK Supreme Court to rule on return of ‘Islamic State bride’ Shamima Begum

Former President Donald Trump is expected to steal the show when he speaks—in person and in front of a real, not virtual, audience—at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday in Orlando, Florida. But in the main hall on Friday night will be the premiere of a movie, Roe v. Wade , that is sure to cause a few waves of its own. The fact that the red-carpet event is debuting at a gathering for conservatives indicates a pro-life tilt that's practically guaranteed to thrill the assembled while irritating the pro-choice crowd. And that's even before revealing that the film features some of the political left's most hated enemies, including MyPillow guy Mike Lindell, who plays a reporter in the film about the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Nick Loeb, the co-writer, co-director and one of the stars of the film, says Lindell was cast in his role well prior to him making worldwide headlines as one of the staunchest promoters of the notion that … [Read more...] about Inside the Other Controversy Headed for CPAC: The ‘Roe v. Wade’ Movie