The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed the Muslim community to hold mass prayers twice a year in the Idgah Maidan in Hubli in Karnataka, but ruled out allowing the construction of any structure there by the community.
A bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Mukundkam Sharma gave the ruling, upholding the June 1992 verdict of [...]
The Delhi High Court Tuesday upheld its single bench order that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes within the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and details of judges assets should be revealed under that.
A bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justices S. Muralidhar and Vikramjeet Sen said: [...]
Seeking to dispel popular perception that the courts often accord early hearing to cases involving big corporates, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Monday asserted that the judiciary gives early hearing to ‘cases having serious impact on the country’s economy’.
In an interview to television news channel NDTV, on completing three years at the helm of [...]
A day after hurling invectives at Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda Monday fired another shot at him, accusing him of colluding with Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited (NICE) to deprive farmers of their agricultural lands.
Gowda made the allegation during an interaction with reporters in the Supreme Court premises [...]
Why is the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project stalled? The Supreme Court Monday sought answers from the Karnataka government.
The apex court urged the Karnataka government to reply to contentions by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Ltd (NICE) that the Rs.75 billion (Rs.750 crore) project was making little progress despite Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa forming a high-level panel [...]
The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce itself Tuesday on the Supreme Court registry ’s appeal against its earlier ruling that the office of Chief Justice of India comes within the purview of the Right to Information Act and details of judges’ assets should be revealed.
A bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash [...]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday asked why Punjab Police Inspector General Sumedh Singh Saini had not raised any objections when sanction was taken to try him for the illegal detention and disappearance of two businessmen 12 years ago.
During the hearing in the high court of Saini’s appeal against the 2007 trial court [...]
Four Mumbaikars who lost their family members in 26/11 have approached the Supreme Court seeking direction for enactment of laws for adequate security measures in luxury hotels and insurance cover for hotel guests falling victim to terror attacks.
The Supreme Court Friday sought the government’s stand on the lawsuit.
Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. [...]
The Supreme Court Friday ordered a court in Punjab to conclude within six months the ongoing trial of a former chief of the Sikhs’ religious shrines management panel for allegedly murdering her daughter.
A bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice A.K. Patnaik ordered the Patiala court, where the trial of Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee’s [...]
The Supreme Court Thursday suspended the death sentence of Surinder Koli, convicted in February last year of raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar in Nithari village near the capital in a case that shocked the nation for its depravity.
The decision will help shift the focus on Koli’s employer Moninder Singh Pandher, a co-accused in the [...]
The parents of the Nithari victims Thursday hailed the Supreme Court’s decision to stay convict Surender Koli’s death sentence, saying they hoped that not only Koli but his employer Moninder Singh Pandher are hanged for the horrific rape-murders of at least 19 children and women.
It has been a painful three years of strife for the [...]
Undeterred by Tamil Nadu Governor S.S. Barnala’s statement that efforts to build a new dam in Mullaperiyar were unnecessary, Kerala Irrigation Minister N.K. Premachandran Thursday said the new dam would soon be a reality.
Currently a survey team is going ahead and identifying the exact location of the proposed dam at Mullaperiyar, Premachandran told IANS.
‘The survey [...]
Welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision staying Nithari killings convict Surinder Koli’s death sentence, a lawyer representing the victims’ families Thursday said now the Allahabad High Court’s ‘fault’ of acquitting Koli’s employer Moninder Singh Pandher for the 2006 killings would ‘come out in the open’.
The apex court Thursday stayed Koli’s death sentence for raping and killing [...]
The union government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it is committed to implementing the fundamental right to education of children below 14 by mid-2010.
The government also said that the rules being framed for the purpose are likely to be ready by April or May.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium made this submission to a bench of [...]
John Fernandes, accused of raping a 25-year-old Russian girl here last month, surrendered before the Goa crime branch Wednesday afternoon, police said.
John, a local politician, had been absconding since his anticipatory bail was cancelled by the Bombay High Court last month.
His surrender follows a Supreme Court rap Tuesday when counsel for the accused withdrew [...]
The Supreme Court Tuesday held that to convict a person on charges of abetting suicide, he/she must be held guilty of performing a ‘positively direct act’ of prompting the victim to commit suicide.
The ruling, which might eventually have some bearing on the criminal case of abetment of suicide of teenager Ruchika Girhotra against Haryana former [...]
As the citizenship of German twins born to an Indian surrogate mother hangs in the balance, German Ambassador Thomas Mataussek Monday said his country would consider giving visas to them if the Indian government approached it.
‘If the Indian government approaches us, we will certainly take note of it. We will not reject it outright,’ the [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday dismissed spiritual guru Asaram Bapu’s plea for anticipatory bail for his alleged role in a murderous bid on the life of a former disciple in Ahmedabad in December.
A bench of Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice Deepak Verma also threw out his plea for quashing the criminal [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 4 (IANS) As Indian Army chief Deepak Kapoor arrives in Nepal on his first official visit to receive the honorary title of general of the Nepal Army, the latter’s triumph will be dulled by a blow dealt by the apex court, the first since the fall of King Gyanendra’s government four years ago.
Kapoor, [...]
Hyderabad, Jan 2 (IANS) An Indian American man is making desperate efforts to get custody of his seven-year-old son, who remains untraced even after the Supreme Court ruled that the boy and his mother should go back to the US.
V. Ravichandran, who is currently residing here, fears for the safety of Aditya as his ex-wife [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Whether it was Justice Markandey Katju’s obey-your-wife remark or Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan’s polluters-must-pay ruling, the Supreme Court continued to hog the limelight in 2009. Topping them was the repeated order that stopped the statue installation spree of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
Justice B.N. Agrawal had to even threaten the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The year 2009 is set to be remembered as one that pitted the Supreme Court against the forces of transparency and left it contending with an ever-growing demand for accountability in the judiciary.
For the first time, the Supreme Court had to make its judges declare their assets, while the office [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 28 (ANI): Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has reportedly come under immense government pressure not to pursue cases of wilful default of bank loans given to a number of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwarts and [...]
Islamabad, Dec.24 (ANI): Miffed over the performance of the legal team in the Supreme Court during the hearing of the case regarding the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), the Pakistan government has dismantled its present legal team.
According to sources, both Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari were unhappy by the way the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed Delhi Police and the Delhi government to attend to parole pleas quickly and not to be selective about them.
Justice Kailash Gambhir after seeing the status report of the Delhi Police wherein only nine parole pleas of undertrials are pending said, ‘Before the court’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Deposing before a city court Tuesday, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh charged that a man posing as a law officer tried to extort Rs. 5 crore from him to settle a corruption case against Mulayam Singh Yadav two years ago.
Appearing before Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg, Singh alleged that accused Barun [...]
Bangalore, Dec 22 (IANS) In the wake of abduction of 12 bar girls by armed thugs for ransom in Bangalore last weekend, the city police are seeking a ban on employing women in such jobs.
While police cite security of women as the reason for such a ban, women bartenders contend it would eat into [...]
Islamabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar Monday denied he had offered to resign and termed such reports as ‘baseless rumours’.
Reports said the minister offered his resignation in protest after immigration staff prevented him Thursday night from leaving for China on an official visit because his name was on a list of people [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Delhi Police Monday told the Delhi High Court that the pending parole pleas of under-trials lodged in various jails of the capital were being expeditiously disposed of, and only ten more were left now.
Filing a fresh status report, Delhi Police counsel Meera Bhatia informed Justice Kailash Gambhir that of the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court has ruled that courts need not deny anticipatory bail to a person merely because the police have filed a chargesheet indicting him for a crime.
A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Surinder Singh Nijjar gave the ruling while granting anticipatory bail to Jaipur’s Ravindra Saxena who faced [...]
