New Delhi: Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy’s ghost has returned to haunt Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, with the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordering a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Ganapathy’s mysterious death and asked them to conclude the investigation within three months. The Police Officer killed himself at a lodge in Madikeri (Kodagu) on…
Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy could have shot himself with his revolver, but why did he choose to hang himself? What was the mystery behind the bullets found in his room? What was the role of the reporter who interviewed him before the Dy.SP hanging himself? Why was the reporter’s statement not recorded as part of…
New Delhi: After passing a landmark judgement declaring Triple Talaq unconstitutional on Aug. 22, the Supreme Court delivered yet another judgement this morning upholding the Right to Privacy as “a Fundamental Right.” A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar unanimously ruled that “Right to privacy is an intrinsic part of Right to…
New Delhi: In a landmark and a far-reaching order empowering millions of Muslim women, the Supreme Court this morning struck down the controversial Islamic divorce practice of instant triple talaq, saying it was arbitrary and against the tenets of Islam. “It is illegal, unworthy and retrograde and is not integral to religious practice and violates…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) today granted bail to Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Seven people were killed in a bomb blast on Sept.29, 2008, in Malegaon, a communally-sensitive textile town in the Nasik district of Northern Maharashtra. The National Investigating Agency (NIA) had opposed his bail during…
Madikeri: Congress spokesperson and Supreme Court Advocate Brijesh Kalappa, who is representing Karnataka in the final hearing on the contentious Cauvery River dispute at the Supreme Court, said that the decision on the Cauvery water dispute is likely to come either in the end of this year or in January next year. Addressing a press…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday granted three months time for translating the historic documents in the two-decade-old Ayodhya dispute. The Apex Court fixed the matter for further hearing on Dec. 5. The Apex Court has constituted a three-judge bench headed by Justice Deepak Misra to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Allahabad High…
New Delhi: The Three Judge Bench of Supreme Court, which is hearing the petition filed by one Tilly Gifford, who claims to be the niece of late Van Ingen, challenging the Karnataka High Court order of dismissing the FIR against Michael Flyod Eshwer, yesterday, set aside the HC order and referred the matter back to…
Quietus seems Divine! By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief The Supreme Court on Monday had asked the UP Government headed by Yogi Adityanath to clarify its stand over the largesse, the grant of aid of Rs. 103.92 crore given to Chaudhary Charan Singh Degree College founded in 1983 and run by Shiksha Prasar Samiti in Etawah during…
New Delhi: A Family Welfare Committee (FWC) in every district will scrutinise dowry harassment cases before local Police can arrest the accused, the Supreme Court (SC) said yesterday, laying down a set of guidelines to curb misuse of law. Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 498A has been criticised for giving “disgruntled women” a legal option…
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