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…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will consider the CID report on the alleged defrauding of over Rs. 500 crore worth properties of Mysuru-based taxidermist Edwin Joubert Van Ingen on Aug. 1. A Three-Judge Bench, presided by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, agreed to consider the matter, though senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing Michael Floyd Eshwer, who claimed…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday issued notice to Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, seeking his response in a plea for a CBI probe into the suicide of Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) M.K. Ganapathy on July 7, 2016. Before his death, Ganapathy, then posted at the office of Inspector General of Police, Mangaluru, had…
Maddur: Taking a cue from the farmers who half-buried themselves in Maharashtra to draw the attention of the Government towards their problems in April this year, a group of farmers half-buried themselves in Maddur this morning protesting against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam. The protesting farmers,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday began its final hearing on the appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the 2007 award of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) on sharing of water. The Tribunal was set up in 1991. In 2007, it ordered the allocation of 419 tmcft of Cauvery water to…
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