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New Delhi: Former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other discharged accused in the liquor policy case cannot seek the recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma merely because she attended a "legal seminar" by the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad, as it does not demonstrate any ideological association, the CBI has told the Delhi High Court. In a reply filed to applications by the AAP leader and others seeking the judge's recusal from hearing the Central Bureau of investigation's (CBI) challeng ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 9 (PTI) Former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other discharged accused in the liquor policy case cannot seek the recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma merely because she attended a "legal seminar" by the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad as it does not demonstrate any ideological association, the CBI has told the Delhi High Court. In a reply filed to applications by the AAP leader and others seeking the judge's recusal from hearing the Central Bureau of investigation's (CB ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday in the Delhi High Court opposed former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's application seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing its appeal against the trial court's order discharging him and 22 others in the Delhi excise policy case, describing the development as "serious". Even as Justice Sharma issued notice in the application, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the agency, submitted that Kejriwal had ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on a recusal application filed by AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, who appeared in person and sought that the matter relating to the alleged excise policy case be heard by a Bench other than that of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The development came during the hearing of a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging a trial court order discharging Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday opposed before the Delhi high court, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's application seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing its appeal against the trial court's order discharging him and 22 others in the Delhi excise policy case, describing the development as "something serious" that had taken place in the national capital. Justice Sharma took Kejriwal's application on record and listed it for hearing ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and several other accused in the alleged Delhi excise policy case has moved a recusal application before the Delhi High Court, seeking that the matter be heard by a Bench other than that of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. Sources indicated that former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal is likely to appear in person before the Delhi High Court on Monday to advance arguments in support of the plea seeking recusal ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the bail granted to businessman Satinder Singh Bhasin in connection with a multi-crore rupee alleged Grand Venice Mall scam in Greater Noida and directed him to surrender before the jail authorities within a week. A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh cancelled Bhasin's bail as he failed to settle the claims of the flat allottees, and also for siphoning off Rs 50 crore from the funds of Bhasin Infotech and Infrastructure Privat ...Read More >
"A public figure, such as defendant no. 7 (Richa Chadha), bears a legal and moral responsibility to verify the veracity of facts before leveraging her platform to amplify grave accusations. The Court is prima facie of the view that endorsement of unverified allegations has inflicted immediate, exponential, and incalculable harm on the plaintiff's reputation. The endorsement and amplification of an unverified allegation, accompanied by the instigatory text "Make him famous", transcends mere free ...Read More >
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a nationwide policy providing paid menstrual leave for women students and workers, observing no one would give them jobs in such a scenario and that such a provision would unintentionally reinforce gender stereotypes. The top court, however, asked the Centre and competent authorities to consider the representation of the PIL petitioner and examine the possibility of framing a policy on menstrual leave after consulti ...Read More >
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation , which challenged a 1980 Waqf notification and alleged that three mosques in Jahangirpuri area were illegal encroachment on public land. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed that the PIL by the NGO Save India Foundation was not filed with "bonafide motive or in public interest". "We are not inclined to entertain the instant petition, which is hereby dismissed along with pending ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday gave a split verdict on a plea filed by the Maharashtra government seeking a review of the court's earlier direction for setting up a special investigation team comprising police officers from both Hindu and Muslim communities to probe the communal riots that broke out in Akola in 2023. While Justice Sanjay Kumar, who authored the earlier verdict delivered on September 11, refused to review the direction, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma agreed to ...Read More >
People have been found misusing the name of the media for "blackmail, extortion, coercion of officials and circulation of unverified and defamatory material against public institutions and officers," said Joint Director Information of Kashmir Authorities in Kashmir have called for heightened vigilance in view of repeated complaints of blackmail or extortion by some individuals posing as journalists. In a communication to district information officers in the Valley, Joint Director Information ( ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday denied anticipatory bail to a Panvel-based woman accused of fraudulently transferring ownership of another woman's flat into her own name under the guise of advancing a loan. Justice Amit Borkar, while rejecting the plea of Savita Dashrath Babar, observed that the case involved "misuse of confidence and abuse of legal instruments to dispossess a woman of her property." According to the prosecution, the complainant, Guljara Wali Ahmad Maniyar, was in finan ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) In view of pediatrician's arrest following deaths of children due to the consumption of a "contaminated" cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday sought Union Health Minister JP Nadda's intervention into the matter and immediate withdrawal of the case against the bona fide medical practitioner. Condemning the action taken against the Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP), IMA said the root cause of this tragedy is the failure of qua ...Read More >
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Vodafone Idea (Vi) has filed a plea in the Supreme Court, seeking waiver from paying interest, penalty and interest on penalty on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues demand raised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Vi, in its application, has sought to amend its previous petition that sought quashing of the DoT's additional AGR demand of ₹9,450 crore till FY19. The amended application is now seeking exemption from the payment of interest, penalty and interest ...Read More >
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Vodafone Idea (Vi) has filed a plea in the Supreme Court, seeking waiver from paying interest, penalty and interest on penalty on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues demand raised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Vi, in its application, has sought to amend its previous petition that sought quashing of the DoT's additional AGR demand of Rs 9,450 crore till FY19. The amended application is now seeking exemption from the payment of interest, penalty and interes ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 27 (ANI): The Government e Marketplace (GeM) and the Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM), on Wednesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen India's public procurement system through training, research and knowledge building. According to a statement, the MoU, signed in Delhi, aims to integrate GeM's digital procurement platform with AJNIFM's expertise in training and capacity building. The release stated that the col ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court, while granting bail to a 24-year-old man accused of marrying an alleged minor, raised the need for a Uniform Civil Code to resolve conflicts between personal laws and national legislation. Justice Arun Monga noted Muslim law permits marriages after puberty, but Indian criminal law deems them offences, urging legislative clarity for legal certainty and social harmony. Is it not the time to move towards a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ensuring a single framework where personal o ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said an average home buyer desires a stable roof over their family's head and the anxiety of not having a home despite paying a fortune is bound to take a serious toll on health, productivity, and dignity, and the Centre cannot continue to be a silent spectator, when desire for a dream home of the taxpayers' is shattered. A bench comprising justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said: "The Union government shall consider establishing a revival fund under Nationa ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim relief to psephologist and former CSDS director Sanjay Kumar by staying the FIRs lodged against him over a controversial social media post on voter turnout data during the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections. A bench of Chief Justices B. R. Gavai and Justice N. V. Anjaria directed that no coercive action be taken against Kumar, noting that he had promptly deleted the post and issued a public apology after admitting to a data misreading erro ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by actor-turned-MP Kangana Ranaut challenging her summoning by a Punjab court in a defamation case, making it clear that the magistrate has duly applied mind to the material on record while summoning her.Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya, in a detailed 15-page order, said, "There are specific allegations against the petitioner who is a celebrity, that false and defamatory imputations by her in the retweet have dented the r ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 10: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday objected to the PILs filed by several NGOs and other political activists in the Supreme Court challenging its decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, representing the poll body, objected to the locus standi of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and other PIL litigants. "None of them are voters in Bihar! Before you (SC) are some ...Read More >
New Delhi: Flagging the "egregious misuse" of the Delhi Rent Control Act, the High Court has termed it an "anachronistic piece of legislation" and set aside a rent controller's 2013 order.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambani, in a recent order, was dealing with petitions against the orders of the additional rent controller (ARC) that dismissed eviction petitions filed by owners of properties in Sadar Bazar.The owners are now based in the UK and Dubai and sought eviction of their tenants, but their plea ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) Markets regulator Sebi has barred US-based Jane Street Group from the securities markets and directed the group to disgorge unlawful gains of Rs 4,843 crore for allegedly manipulating stock indices through positions taken in derivatives segment. This could be the highest disgorgement amount ever directed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). In its interim order, the regulator has debarred JSI Investments, JSI2 Investments Pvt Ltd, Jane Street Singapore P ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 6 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBE) to reschedule the NEET-PG 2025 examination to August 3, 2025, and conduct it in a single day, following the Court's earlier direction to hold the exam in one shift instead of two. A bench comprising justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Augustine George Masih allowed NBE's application seeking extension of time, which became necessary after the court's May 30 order ruled against ...Read More >
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