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Succeeding <keyword id="2501349" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Justice-HL-Dattu">Justice HL Dattu</keyword>, Justice T S Thakur will become the next <keyword id="45053" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chief-Justice-of-India">Chief Justice of India</keyword>. 
 
Justice Thakur, the senior-most judge of the apex court, will take over as the CJI after Justice Dattu retires on December 2. 
His name was recommended to the government by Justice Dattu on Monday, official sources said. 
 
After the law ministry clears the file of Justice Thakur's appointment, it would be sent to the Prime Minister's Office. His Warrant of Appointment will be issued when the President clears it. 
 
Justice Thakur, who would be the 43rd CJI, was born on January 4, 1952 and enrolled as a Pleader in October 1972. He began practising in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and dealt with all types of matters, including civil, criminal, tax and Constitutional and service cases. 
He then joined the chamber of his father D D Thakur, an eminent advocate who became a judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and later a union minister. 
 
Justice Thakur, who was elevated as a judge of the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court" target="_blank">Supreme Court</a> and assumed charge on November 17, 2009, would have a tenure of little over one year. He would retire as CJ on January 4, 2017. 
 
63-year-old Justice Thakur headed the bench which had delivered the verdict in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal in January this year. 
Justice Thakur was designated as a senior advocate in 1990. On February 16, 1994, he was appointed as an additional judge of the J&amp;K High Court and transferred as a judge of the Karnataka High Court in March, 1994. 
 
He was appointed as a permanent judge in September 1995 and transferred to Delhi High Court in July 2004. 
 
Justice Thakur was appointed as acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on April 9, 2008 and on August 11, 2008, he took over as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. 
 
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Justice TS Thakur to become the next Chief Justice of India

After an unprecedented midnight hearing by the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> that began at 3 am and concluded at 5 am, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Government-advises-President-to-reject-Yakub-Memons-plea/articleshow/48266883.cms">Yakub Memon</a> was finally hanged at the Nagpur jail at 7 this morning. His hanging was preceded by plenty of political and legal movements through the day and night. At 10 last night President <keyword id="6359124" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Pranab-Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</keyword> had rejected <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">Yakub</a> Memon’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-5-most-wanted-terrorists-in-India-that-still-roam-free/articleshow/48100097.cms">mercy plea</a> which was followed by a last ditch effort by his lawyers who then filed a mercy petition with the Supreme Court at 11 pm last night. 
 
In a first, the Supreme Court was opened for the judges to hear the matter at 3 am. The final petition was heard by a three judge bench which included the Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu in court number four at the apex court. After a 90 minute hearing the three judge bench unanimously rejected Yakub’s plea stating that enough and more chances were given to him to put forth his case. 
 
Section 144 has been imposed in areas around the Nagpur jail where Yakub was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-mostinfamous-terrorists-and-the-ends-they-met/articleshow/48172442.cms">hanged</a>. His body is expected to be flown to Mumbai and handed over to his relatives at 11 this morning. Meanwhile, a thick blanket of security has been thrown over Mumbai with special focus on sensitive areas like the residence where the Memons reside. The case that has been going for over 22 years has been a hot bed of controversy forever. However this is one of those rare cases where the political classes have been united in seeking Yakub’s hanging across the board barring only the CPI. 
 
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BREAKING NEWS: YAKUB MEMON HANGED

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to hold discussion with internet intermediaries, including Google, <keyword id="790242" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</keyword> and Facebook, to develop a strategy to restrict circulation of rape videos, child pornography and images. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant noted the submissions of advocate Aparna Bhat, appearing for Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala. Bhat submitted a meeting, to deal with circulation of obscene content on social media platforms, is yet to be convened by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) involving all the stakeholders since December 2018. Solicitor Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, submitted before the court the meeting on this matter would take place soon and asked the court not to pass any order. Bhat cited the difference in opinion between the NGO and internet intermediaries on the matter - NGO reckon the content can be blocked at the outset, but internet companies say materials have to be brought to their notice to take action. Bhat said delay in action would eventually make the content go viral. She insisted that the issue of child pornography falls under POCSO (the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) and it's mandatory to report on it. Lawyer N.S. Nappinai, who is assisting the court as <keyword id="525739" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="amicus-curiae">amicus curiae</keyword>, suggested artificial intelligence tools could filter obscene content and help in its elimination. In 2015, the apex court had taken the suo motu cognizance of a letter written to the then Chief Justice H.L. Dattu alleging circulation of two rape videos and the video content was submitted in the court in a pen drive. The top court on Tuesday said it will ask MHA to schedule a meeting on this matter. The court asked Bhat to provide a status report to all parties to the case and scheduled the matter for further hearing after four weeks. In 2018, the apex court had said the Centre could lay down standard operating procedure (SoP) to block obscene content involving children.

Indian court wants Google, WA and FB to help stop child porn and rape videos

Senior advocate <keyword id="38062" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ram-Jethmalani">Ram Jethmalani</keyword>, who has been fighting the legal battle to bring back <keyword id="6356023" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Black-Money">black money</keyword> stashed money abroad, has expressed disappointment over the government's failure in recovering the black money. He called the government's response on the issue a "total disappointment." 
 "I am not recovering my money, but the nation's money. Till a legislation is passed, not a farthing will come. I drafted a law and sent a copy to the Prime Minister. It has been passed on to the finance ministry. Are they in favour of this legislation? If they don't want to do it, they should let it be known. Otherwise, I will go to the real sovereign — the people," said Jethmalani, a former member of the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword>. 
 The BJP had promised to bring back black money during the election campaign. It had also constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to look into this. “But not a single rupee has been brought back in the last six months,” Jethmalani's lawyer Anil Divan told the Supreme bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and justices <keyword id="135052" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Madan-B-Lokur">Madan B Lokur</keyword> and AK Sikri. 
 
Jethmalani had played a key role in filing a public interest litigation (PIL) on the issue of black money.

Not A Single Rupee Has Been Brought Back In The Last 6 Months: Ram Jethmalani

The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> has asked the Narendra Modi-led government to clarify within two weeks if it would carry on with the UPA government’s plan of using <keyword id="144117" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="AADHAAR">Aadhaar</keyword> as a proof of identity for direct transfer of cash subsidies for social welfare schemes. 
 
A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu told Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, “We have read it in the newspapers that there is some rethinking on the scheme. You have to tell us by Friday next.” 
 
The court’s direction comes in the backdrop of various media reports suggesting that the Modi government was reconsidering the Aadhaar card scheme. It is pertinent to mention here that the BJP had heavily criticised the scheme when it was in opposition. It argued that collection of biometric data was in violation of a person’s right to privacy. 
 A number of petitions challenging the UPA government’s move of setting up the Unique Identification Authority of India (<keyword id="6355252" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="UIDAI">UIDAI</keyword>) are pending before the apex court. The Modi government has not taken any stand before the court. 
 
On September 23, 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered the government not to make Aadhaar card mandatory for providing benefits under social welfare schemes.

Supreme Court Asks The Govt To Clarify Its Stand On Aadhaar

Taking a U turn, the central government has told the apex court that they would ‘try’ to ban child porn content and do nothing on adult content. Last week, the entire nation vehemently opposed govt’s sudden decision of blocking websites containing pornography. The netizens woke up and made fun of the BJP ruled government at centre. 
 
However, this recent reaction from government forces one to ask why this feedback suddenly. The statement made by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, during a hearing on a public interest litigation that has sought court intervention to get the government cracking down against child porn, is being seen as an attempt to deflect recent criticism against the government's decision to block more than 850 websites. 
 
"If someone wants to watch a film, how do you stop it? Can we do moral policing in people's bedrooms," the AG asked. He was making his submissions before a bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy. "Geographical frontiers are no longer restricted. Unlike earlier, pornography is not restricted to magazines and books. It can be stopped to a limited extent," the AG said. 
 
The AG's submission is also a tacit acceptance of the limits of what a government could do in a democratic setup. Whether technologically feasible or not, a certain section would always feel that it was an adult choice of entertainment that the state should not interfere with, Rohatgi said. 
 
The AG said child porn had to be blocked, but wondered whether a complete ban was possible given the number of websites mushrooming in the virtual world. 
 
Senior lawyer Meenakshi Arora, appearing for some Internet Service Providers, said they could block some websites under court orders, but not all.

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