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The Supreme Court has held that states are not bound to provide reservation in appointments and there is no fundamental right to claim quota...

In the case of Cyrus Mistry, Tata Sons has challenged the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) decision in the Supreme Court. The board meeting of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the flagship company of the Tata group, is scheduled to take place on 9 January. In such a situation, when the Supreme Court opens on 6 January, Tata Sons' lawyers can demand an immediate hearing. On December 18, the NCLAT ordered Mistry to appoint him again as chairman of Tata Sons. Tata Sons had 4 weeks to appeal.

In order to evaluate the country's criminal justice system in the case of sexual offenses and rape, the Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Center, State Governments and Union Territories seeking answers. The court has taken suo motu cognizance of the matter. On Wednesday, the court also asked all the High Courts of the country to give details of the investigation, the process of gathering evidence and the facts related to the hearing of the case.

The Supreme Court has upheld the hanging of Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convict Akshay. The 3-member bench on Wednesday dismissed his petition. Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi expressed happiness over the decision. After this, the death warrant of the convicts was heard in Patiala House Court. The court directed Tihar Jail to issue a week's notice to the convicts today whether they want to file mercy petition or not. The court will next hear it on 7 January. However, Akshay's lawyer AP Singh has said to file a curative petition before the mercy petition.

Petitions were filed against the encounter of 4 accused in rape and murder of Veterinary Doctor in Telangana in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case was headed by Chief Justice AS Bobde. The matter is currently in the Telangana High Court. The apex court has proposed to appoint a former judge to investigate the encounter. The next hearing will be on Thursday.

In Telangana, questions are being raised on the encounter of 4 accused of rape and murder with the Veterinary Doctor. A petition in the case was filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday. It demanded an FIR, investigation and action against the policemen involved in the encounter. Petitioners Advocate GS Mani and Pradeep Kumar Yadav have said that the police did not follow the 2014 Supreme Court Guidelines in this case.

The Supreme Court ordered a floor test for the formation of government in Maharashtra. A few hours later, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who took oath 4 days ago, resigned from the post. Opposition parties Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP went to the Supreme Court regarding the floor test. This is not the first case when political parties have moved the Supreme Court to form government in the states. Earlier, 4 such cases have been reported.

The second term of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for five years did not last even for four days. Fadnavis was sworn in as chief minister on Saturday morning, on the basis of Ajit Pawar's trust, and immediately removed President's rule from the center. Ajit was made the Deputy Chief Minister. In just three days after forming a secret government, Ajit Pawar realized that uncle Sharad Pawar had the key to power. On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court ruled on the floor test, and in the afternoon, Ajit Pawar quietly resigned. Fadnavis also announced his resignation after an hour. In this way, after winning the Lok Sabha elections with an absolute majority, Maharashtra the first major state eloped from the hands of BJP. BJP MLA Kalidas Columbkar was made the protem speaker and has called the first session of the assembly at 8 am on Wednesday, in which the MLAs will be administered the oath.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a final hearing on December 10 in the matter of abolition of special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Justice NV Ramanna said, "The central government should file an affidavit by November 22 to present its side in this case." The court directed the lawyers related to the case to collect all the facts and documents, as well as finalize the date of hearing.

It is known that to control the constantly deteriorating air quality, the government had ordered to implement an even-odd scheme in the capital through November 4-15. Meanwhile, people were exempted from this keeping in view of Sunday and Guru Parva for the last three days.