Supreme Court asks political parties to list reasons for giving tickets to tainted candidates New Delhi: Exercising its Constitutional powers, the Supreme Court (SC) this morning put political parties on a tight leash and made mandatory for all political parties to give reasons for putting up candidates with criminal antecedents in General and Assembly polls….
Government withdraws controversial circular on criminal cases
January 28, 2018Bengaluru: The Home Ministry yesterday withdrew the controversial circular issued by the office of the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police (DG&IGP) to heads of all districts on dropping cases registered against “innocent minorities,” claiming that it was a “clerical error.” The circular, which had riled the BJP that said it amounted to “minority appeasement,” was…
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