The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday quashed criminal proceedings against cricketer M. S. Dhoni in an Andhra Pradesh court for a picture published in a magazine showing him as Lord Vishnu. The court observed that it would be travesty of justice if Dhoni was prosecuted as he didn’t do anything with malicious intent. A Bench led…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning ruled that Lal Krishna Advani and several other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi and Union Minister Uma Bharti will face conspiracy charges in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The Court ordered a time-bound trial, ordering that the Judge hearing the case shall not…
Manual scavenging continues in Mysuru despite Supreme Court banning this practice way back in 1993. The law banning manual scavenging was extended and clarified to include insanitary latrines, ditches and pits in 2013. These photographs were captured yesterday bang in front of Lakshmipuram Police Station. Unfortunately, almost all manual scavengers (Safai Karmacharis) remain temporary workers…
New Delhi – The Supreme Court yesterday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) to a plea filed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on alleged tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party sought to implead themselves in the case along with…
Kolkata – The defiant Calcutta High Court Judge C.S. Karnan yesterday asked the Chief Justice of India and six Judges of the Supreme Court, who have issued contempt notice to him, to appear before him at his “residential court” on Apr. 28. Justice Karnan claimed that the seven Judges of the Bench have insulted him…
New Delhi – The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed Karnataka’s plea to review the abatement of appeal against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister late J. Jayalalithaa and recovery of Rs. 100 crore fine in a Disproportionate Assets (DA) case. On Mar. 21, the Karnataka Government moved the review petition in the Court. The State said the…
Karnataka gets relief Owners of liquor shops can heave a sigh of relief as Supreme Court has set a deadline till Sept. 30, 2017 to relocate their shops from State and National Highways. However, highway liquor shops in Karnataka will have to be shifted by June 30 as the State’s Excise Year is from July…
The Supreme Court yesterday fixed May 11 for hearing pleas challenging validity of triple talaq. The SC further said that a Five-Judge Constitution Bench will hear the matter. The Court said it would hold daily sittings between May 11 and May 19 to decide pleas by Muslim women to declare the practice of oral talaq…
Six years after a Lokayukta report indicted two Karnataka Chief Ministers N. Dharam Singh and H.D. Kumaraswamy, the Supreme Court yesterday ordered a probe into the role played by the two politicians in de-reserving 11,797 square kilometres of forest in Ballari district, leading to large-scale illegal iron ore mining. However, another former Chief Minister S.M….
Maintaining that the recent Supreme Court order striking down consequential seniority for SC/ST category in job promotions was not against reservation in jobs, the Ahimsa Vedike, a body of a group of people from General Category, Backward Classes and Minorities, has demanded implementation of the Apex Court order on job promotions. Addressing the press meet…
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