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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments

Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections

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GOI “callous” to Problems of Litigants, Rejects 13 names as Allahabad HC judge: CJAR

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Clear Evidence of Bribes of CMS, Bureaucrats in Sahara-Birla Payoffs: Justice AP Shah

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