The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of judicial review. The Supreme Court,which consists of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of fellow 33 judges,has extensive powers in the form of original,appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
Arun Jaitley was an Indian politician and attorney. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Jaitley served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from 2014 to 2019. Jaitley previously held the cabinet portfolios of Finance,Defence,Corporate Affairs,Commerce and Industry,and Law and Justice in the Vajpayee government and Narendra Modi government.
Akhand Bharat,also known as Akhand Hindustan,is a term for the concept of a unified Greater India. It asserts that modern-day Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,India,Maldives,Myanmar,Nepal,Pakistan,Sri Lanka and Tibet are one nation.
Kailash Nath Katju was a prominent politician of India. He was the Governor of Odisha and West Bengal,the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,the Union Home Minister and the Union Defence Minister. He was also one of India's most prominent lawyers. He was part of some of the most notable cases of his times,including the Indian National Army trials. Katju joined the Indian independence movement early on and spent several years incarcerated with fellow independence activists for his activities.
Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India,from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian terrorist financier convicted of terrorism over his financial involvements in the 1993 Bombay bombings,and the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings,Tiger Memon. After his appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected,he was executed at Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015. Memon financially assisted his brother Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in planning and executing the bombings. Memon handled Tiger's funds,funded the training of 15 youths who were sent to a secret location to learn handling arms and ammunition,purchased the vehicles used in the bombings,and stockpiled weapons.
Prashant Bhushan is an Indian public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC,he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015,he made several allegations against the party's leadership,its functioning and its deviation from the core ideology,values and commitments. He is one of the founders of Swaraj Abhiyan and Sambhaavnaa,an Institute of Public Policy and Politics.
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak was the 18th Chief Justice of India. He was the son of Gopal Swarup Pathak,a former Vice President of India.
Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu is a former Chief Justice of India,and the former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. As the chief justice,he served for nearly 14 months,from 28 September 2014 to 2 December 2015. Before his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 December 2008;he had served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and the Chhattisgarh High Court.
Justice S. Ashok Kumar was a judge of the Madras High Court and the Andhra Pradesh High Court in India.
Chandramauli Kumar Prasad is the Chairman of the Press Council of India. Before his appointment,he served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 8 February 2010 to 14 July 2014.<ref>"Hon'ble Mr. Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
Aseem Trivedi is an Indian political cartoonist and activist,known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption. He is a founder member of Save Your Voice,a movement against internet censorship in India. He is the recipient of "Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award 2012" of US based Cartoonists Rights Network International.
Indian reunification refers to the potential reunification of India with Pakistan and Bangladesh,which were partitioned from British India in 1947.
Soumya murder case is a criminal case regarding the rape and murder of Soumya,a 23-year-old woman from Manjakkad near Shornur,while she was travelling in a passenger train from Ernakulam to Shornur on 1 February 2011.
Dr Khaleel Chishty was a Pakistani citizen who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2011 for killing a man after a fight in the Indian town of Ajmer in 1992. The trial lasted 18-years during which time he was kept under house arrest in his ancestral home in Ajmer.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019,having previously served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha,having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge in the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010,and then was transferred as a judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2010 to 2011 where he later was the Chief Justice from 2011 to 2012. He is also a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Narayan Dutta Ojha was an Indian judge and politician. He served as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in January 1987. He was the acting Governor of Madhya Pradesh in December 1987. He was earlier the Acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from August to September 1986. Later he became a judge of the Supreme Court of India in January 1988 and retired in January 1991. Ojha is deceased.
Shiva Nath Katju was an Indian lawyer,judge and an Indian National Congress politician. He was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1952–1957) and the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (1958–1962). He was also a judge at the Allahabad High Court,and a President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Brahma Nath Katju was an Indian judge and the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.
