The case is about the transfer of assets owned by the Associated Journals Limited to the Congress-promoted Young India Ltd.

Lawyers and past court verdicts indicate that due process as mandated by the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973 has not been followed in the instant case.

An overview of laws and judicial precedents in the country which deal with the demolition or attachment of property reveals that the recent drives across the country fly in the face of established procedures.

The recent spate of litigations being allowed by courts which seek to change the nature of religious structures fly squarely in the face of the provisions of the Places of Worship Act as well as various precedents.

While the mosque's lawyers claim that the ongoing survey of the mosque complex is violative of provisions in the Act, Hindu groups claim that the Act doesn't apply to the present case at all.

The Supreme Court recently admonished the CPI(M) for bringing a case against evictions in Shaheen Bagh, even after they argued that it was a PIL.

Justices Rajiv Shakdher observed that the offence of rape and injury caused remains the same, irrespective of who the offender is. 'What may make, or mar, a marriage, cannot be predicted by us,' Justice C. Hari Shankar said.

If the practice of triple talaq was declared unconstitutional in 2017, why is it being challenged again?

While the chief justice has made some important decisions, there are a number of pending constitutional matters before him.

Petitioners have said the laws provisions are arbitrary, excessive, unreasonable, disproportionate, devoid of substantive due process and in violation of fundamental rights of the citizens of India as well as of the basic structure of the Constitution.

The state was unable to prove that the Act was passed after an analysis of the socio-educational status of the Vanniyar community.