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The Supreme Court has said that it would be better to let the attack on Chief Justice BR Gavai “die a natural death” rather than fuel its “monetisation” on social media. This came after the bench was told that Attorney General R Venkataramani had given his consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against advocate Rakesh Kishore, who allegedly attempted to throw a shoe at Gavai.

Although Supreme Court Bar Association President Vikas Singh urged the court to list the matter for Friday, it decided to take it up after the Diwali break.

The court also questioned if it was wise to intervene in the matter when the chief justice “has shown magnanimity”. Gavai had described the October 6 attack on him as a “forgotten chapter”. Read on.

Attack on CJI Gavai: How casteist assertion throws a shoe at fragile constitutional ideals

The Ministry of External Affairs neither confirmed nor denied United States President Donald Trump’s claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to stop India’s purchase of Russian oil. The ministry said that discussions are underway about deepening energy cooperation between New Delhi and Washington.

New Delhi said that ensuring stable energy prices and secured supplies are the two goals of India’s energy policy. It also said that India has sought to expand energy procurement from the US for many years, and that this has steadily progressed in the past decade.

Trump has imposed punitive levies on India for importing Russian oil, repeatedly alleging that the purchases were helping fund Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that Trump’s statement indicated that Modi was “frightened” of the US president. Read on.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by the Telangana government that challenged the High Court’s interim stay on increased quota of 42% for the Other Backward Classes in the upcoming local body elections. The bench, however, said the High Court must decide the main case on merits and not based on its dismissal of the matter.

On October 9, the High Court stayed a government order that raised total reservations in the state to 67%, effectively breaching the Supreme Court’s 50% cap on quotas. It listed the matter for further hearing after six weeks.

The state government has argued that the 50% limit on reservations was not an “inflexible rule” and was circumvented based on empirical data. Read on.

The execution of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen has been stayed, the Union government told the Supreme Court. Priya, from Kerala’s Palakkad, is on death row in Yemen for allegedly murdering Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mehdi in July 2017.

The court was hearing a petition by the Save Nimisha Priya Action Council, a citizen-led campaign advocating for her release, which sought directions for the Union government to take diplomatic efforts to stop the execution. The bench listed the matter for January but said that it would hear it early “in case the situation so demands”.

The Union government had told the Indian Supreme Court in July that it cannot do much more to prevent the execution. Read more.

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