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New Delhi, December 16: In a major relief to Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, a Delhi court on Tuesday refused to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) prosecution complaint in the alleged National Herald money laundering case. Special Judge (PC Act) Vishal Gogne of the Rouse Avenue Court held that the complaint filed by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was not maintainable. Apa ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a major relief to Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, a Delhi court on Tuesday refused to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) prosecution complaint in the alleged National Herald money laundering case. Special Judge (PC Act) Vishal Gogne of the Rouse Avenue Court held that the complaint filed by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was not maintainable. Apart from Soni ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has directed a petitioner seeking intervention in IndiGo's flight cancellations to approach the Delhi High Court. The High Court is already hearing a similar case concerning the crisis. IndiGo has faced criticism for cancelling hundreds of flights, stranding thousands of passengers. The DGCA has formed an expert committee to address the issues. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking judicial intervention into the issue of cancellation of hundreds of fli ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail to senior journalist Mahesh Langa in connection with an alleged fraud case amounting to Rs 7 crores initiated by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi has requested the trial court to conduct the trial proceedings in the matter on a day-to-day basis and examine all nine witnesses wit ...Read More >
The state government presented the draft notification before the Calcutta High Court. The court held that there is no scope for further adjudication in a petition filed by a private bus owners' association, as their grievances were mitigated in the draft notification presented before it by the government. Disposing of the petition on Friday, Justice Rai Chattopadhyay gave liberty to the West Bengal government to publish the draft notification as submitted before the court at the earliest point ...Read More >
BHOPAL: Around 4,000 newly recruited Madhya Pradesh police constables undergoing training at eight centres have been directed to read chapters from the 'Bhagavad Gita' every evening during the Hindu month of Margashirsha. Additional Director General of Police (Training) Raja Babu Singh maintained that the initiative aims to guide trainee constables toward leading righteous and disciplined lives. "It will help the newly recruited strike a balance between intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional ...Read More >
Tezpur, Oct 27: "As per the National Education Policy, teachers should not be engaged in any non-educational duties apart from population census and election duty. This has already been brought to the notice of Assam's Education Minister. However, teachers have been coerced into getting involved in certain non-educational activities/duties, which adversely affects their primary role as educators," said the general secretary of the Asam Madhyamik Sikshak Karmasari Santha, Brajen Chetia, while int ...Read More >
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai at an event organised in Thimphu, Bhutan Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai on Thursday said that courts play a far greater role than simply adjudicating disputes, describing the judiciary as a "moral conscience of the Constitution" responsible for safeguarding democracy, protecting fundamental rights, and ensuring accountability of power. Delivering a lecture on "Courts and Constitutional Governance" during the Fifth Wisdom for Future Talk Series hosted by t ...Read More >
Court directed police officer to ensure that petitioners are safely escorted to their choice of place ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Allahabad High Court ordered the release of an interfaith couple illegally detained by Uttar Pradesh Police * The couple was taken into custody without any legal direction or order from authorities * The female petitioner is a major and her detention violated her constitutional fundamental rights, court said Did our AI summary hel ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has labelled the encroachment of Rajasthan Housing Board lands an "absolute rank scam," alleging connivance from top to bottom. Justices noted numerous High Court orders against regularizing illegal constructions. The bench expressed strong disapproval while hearing the state's plea, warning of demolition if necessary. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said encroachment of lands acquired for the Rajasthan Housing Board was an "absolute rank scam" in which everyone, right ...Read More >
Mumbai, October 16: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the co-accused in a Rs 60 crore fraud involving her businessman husband Raj Kundra, has dropped plans to travel to Los Angeles and withdrawn a petition from the Bombay High Court seeking relaxation in the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against her, a lawyer said on Thursday. The High Court will now hear the couple's plea seeking the quashing of the LOC on November 17, he said. The actresses' advocates on Thursday told Chief Justice Shree Chan ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the co-accused in a Rs 60 crore fraud involving her businessman husband Raj Kundra, has dropped plans to travel to Los Angeles and withdrawn a petition from the Bombay High Court seeking relaxation in the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against her, a lawyer said on Thursday. The High Court will now hear the couple's plea seeking the quashing of the LOC on November 17, he said. Also Read: ECI to enforce TN Seshan's 1994 guidelines on Burqa-clad women in ...Read More >
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that eight patients died and three others were critically injured in a fire at the trauma centre ICU of the government-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Rajasthan's Jaipur. According to the press report, carried on October 6, 18 patients were admitted to the ICU and semi-ICU wards of the hospital when the fire broke out. The blaze and toxic smoke reportedly hampered rescue operations. The ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday was informed that former chief of the Special Intelligence Bureau in Telangana, T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case, was not cooperating; he had formatted electronic devices and destroyed vital evidence while under the court's protective order. The matter came up before a bench comprising justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan. The apex court directed Rao to submit the password of his iCloud/ cloud account to the state police in the pre ...Read More >
New Delhi: Shyamkanu Mahanta, organiser of the Northeast India Festival, who was arrested in connection with the death case of singer Zubeen Garg, has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the investigation from Assam Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) to a central agency such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Mahanta, who has been arrested by the Assam CID, has also sought the appointment of a retired Supreme Court judge ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Expressing pain over the loss of lives, the Madras High Court on Friday constituted a special investigation team (SIT) under IPS officer Asra Garg to probe the Karur stampede, which claimed 41 lives on September 27. "Watching the videos is painful," said Justice N Senthilkumar, expressing shock that only two people had been arrested so far in connection with the incident. The High Court pulled up the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) leaders and organisers of the ra ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed it was not inclined to permit Dalit rights activist and academic Dr. Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case, to travel abroad for academic assignments. Following this, Teltumbde withdrew his plea seeking permission to travel to the UK and Amsterdam to deliver lectures and attend seminars. Bench Suggests Virtual Lectures A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale noted that he could either deliver ...Read More >
Karur City Police have arrested two functionaries of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in connection with the stampede during party chief Vijay's rally in Karur, which claimed 41 lives. According to ADGP Davidson Devasirvatham, the arrested persons include Mathiyazhagan, the TVK Karur West District Secretary, and Paun Raj, a local town functionary. Police said Paun Raj was arrested for arranging flagpoles and banners for the event and for sheltering Mathiyazhagan after the tragedy. Chennai Pol ...Read More >
Karur (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 30 (ANI): Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) lawyer Manikandan on Tuesday emphasised that the party had followed all conditions imposed by the police and had taken necessary precautions. He argued that controlling the crowd was the responsibility of the police, who had the authority and intelligence to manage large gatherings, following a local court in Tamil Nadu's Karur sending two Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) functionaries to judicial custody in connection ...Read More >
Karur: A local court in Karur in Tamil Nadu has sent two Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), functionaries to judicial custody till October 14 in connection with the stampede that occurred at party president and actor Vijay's rally on September 27, which claimed 41 lives so far. The court passed its judgment today. The two TVK workers - Mathiyazhagan, the party's Karur West District Secretary and MC Paun Raj, the Karur town functionary, were brought to the court by the Karur City Police after their ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Social media platform X Monday said it was "deeply concerned" by a Karnataka high court order that, according to the company, empowers "millions of police officers" to issue arbitrary content takedown notices through a new portal called Sahyog.X has said it will appeal the Sept 24 order as part of its broader effort to defend free expression in India but did not indicate whether it would be filed before Karnataka high court or Supreme Court.The Elon Musk-owned firm said it respects an ...Read More >
Bengaluru, India: Social media giant X warned on Monday that an Indian court allowed ruling police to issue "arbitrary" content removal orders through a government portal threatens free expression. The state high court in Karnataka -- which includes tech-city Bengaluru -- dismissed a plea last week filed by X against the government portal that it alleged was being used to censor content. The government says its online portal Sahyog -- meaning "cooperate" in Hindi -- helps automate the process ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court directed the chief secretary to "reprimand the district collector" of Sircilla district, Sandeep Kumar Jha, for initiating criminal proceedings against a woman despite a clear court order in her favour. The court termed the criminal case a blatant violation of constitutional rights and an "abuse of process of law".In a strongly worded order pronounced on Thursday, Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti criticised Jha, stating, "Initially, this court was inclined to take f ...Read More >
Arvind Kejriwal vacated his official residence at 6, Flagstaff Road in October 2024. New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will be allotted an appropriate government residence within 10 days. Appearing virtually, Solicitor General Mehta assured Justice Sachin Datta, "He (Kejriwal) will be allotted the appropriate accommodation within 10 days from today. You may record my statement." The ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court directed the chief secretary to "reprimand the district collector" of Sircilla district, Sandeep Kumar Jha, for initiating criminal proceedings against a woman despite a clear court order in her favour. The court termed the criminal case a blatant violation of constitutional rights and an "abuse of process of law".In a strongly worded order pronounced on Thursday, Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti criticised Jha, stating, "Initially, this court was inclined to take f ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, September 15, dismissed a plea challenging the Kerala High Court's ruling that political parties are not required to establish Internal Complaints Committees (ICC) under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act), affirming that party membership does not equate to employment. The bench, comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and AS Chandurkar, declined to enter ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday made it clear that the publication of final voter list being prepared by the poll body as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar will not inhibit SC from striking it down 'if it finds any illegality in the process'. A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi verbally observed, "if we find any illegality (in the SIR), we will definitely strike it down" regardless of the finalisation of the revised list. SC also refused to modify its ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on Monday refused to hear a petition that asked to include political parties under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act). The court raised doubts over whether political parties can be considered workplaces and if their members could legally be treated as employees under the Act. A bench led by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, along with Justices K. Vinod Chandran and N.V. Anjaria, heard a ...Read More >
New Delhi: A beggars' home maintained by the state is not a discretionary charity and its administration must reflect the values of constitutional morality, the Supreme Court said while issuing a slew of directions to ensure that dignified living conditions are maintained continuously at such centres. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said all the states and Union Territories are required to institutionalise reforms in beggars' homes and analogous institutions under their contro ...Read More >
The top court says the failure to ensure humane conditions in such homes does not merely amount to maladministration; it constitutes a constitutional breach of the fundamental right to life with dignity A beggars' home maintained by the state is not a discretionary charity and its administration must reflect the values of constitutional morality, the Supreme Court said while issuing a slew of directions to ensure that dignified living conditions are maintained continuously at such centres. A b ...Read More >
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