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The apex court also asked lawyer Utsav Bains, who had claimed conspiracy against the CJI, to provide all evidences and material which support his claim that he was approached by a fixer to frame the CJI.

Hearing the matter, the Court lifted ban from the application on a condition that all pornographic content should be removed instantly, and also no such upload should be seen in the future. The ruling also said that failing to do so will start contempt of court proceedings.

The Gujarat government told the Court that it has taken action against police officers involved in the case, blocking the pension of four and demoting a fifth.

The BJP demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi and called him a “liar of the first order” in public opinion. “This was an attempt by Rahul Gandhi to manufacture a lie and create a controversy in the Rafale deal... He should apologise to the people of this country,” said BJP spokesperson G V L Narsimha Rao.

The BJP leader said that Mr Gandhi, of late, has made a daily routine of "making recklessly false statements". "He was wrong on several counts that I have been pointing out in the last six months. He had no qualms of taking liberty with the truth. The reality is now he has had to express regret," he said.

An advocate on Monday filed a plea in Supreme Court claiming that he was offered a huge sum of Rs 1.5 crores to frame a false case of sexual harassment against the Chief Justice of India. He said that the offer was brought by a man named Ajay.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Madras High Court to decide on its interim ban on TikTok video application by April 24. The ban on the Chinese application which has over 54 million Indian subscribers will be revoked if the High Court fails to give its decision on a plea filed by Chinese company Bytedance, which owns TikTok, the top court has said.

"My political opponents wrongly projected that I had deliberately and intentionally suggested that the Supreme Court had said 'Chowkidar chor hai'. Nothing could be farther from my mind," he said in his statement to the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday strongly denied sexual harassment allegations and said that the independence of judiciary is "under threat" and it "cannot be made a scapegoat".

Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to accept Bahujan Samaj Party Chief Mayawati's plea against the Election Commission's 48-hour nationwide ban on her from campaigning.