Right to Information (RTI) activists from across the country Tuesday hailed the Delhi High Court’s ruling upholding its single bench order that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes within the purview of the RTI Act and details of judges’ assets should be revealed under it.
‘I have no words to express the [...]
Following in the footsteps of their counterparts in the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court judges said Tuesday that they too would declare their assets and make available all the information on the website.
‘We too will declare our assets by next week,’ a bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justices S. Muralidhar and Vikramjit [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lucknow, Dec 30 (IANS) Concerned over the long list of pending cases before the Allahabad High Court, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Wednesday said vacancies of posts of judges needed to be filled to dispose of pending case.
‘About half the sanctioned posts of judges are vacant in the Allahabad High Court alone. Only if [...]
Lucknow, Dec 30 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Wednesday laid the foundation of a new state-of-art building for the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court.
The new building in modern Lucknow’s posh Gomti Nagar is a far cry from what was erected in the heart of the town in 1903.
Spread over a sprawling 40-acre [...]
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 29 (IANS) Teenager Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide three years after being molested by former Haryana top cop S.P.S. Rathore, was remembered by people from all walks of life through a march held here on her 16th death anniversary Tuesday.
The march started from the house of Anand Prakash, who has been fighting [...]
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 [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Doubtful about implementing the minorities commission recommendations, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurhseed Monday said the government was considering quota for backward classes among Muslims within the existing 27 percent reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBC).
However, striking a cautious note, Khursheed said the report by the National Commission on Religious and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20(ANI): The Congress party on Sunday termed the views of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on the impeachment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran as an instance of politicising the issue.
Dinakaran’s elevation to the apex court has been kept on hold following allegations of corruption and land encroachment against [...]
Bangalore, Dec 20 (IANS) Beleaguered Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran has claimed that allegations of land grab and abuse of judicial office were levelled against him to stall his elevation to the Supreme Court.
In his latest missive to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Dec 17, a copy of which is in possession [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20(ANI): The Congress party has said that it will view the Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran episode with absolute precision, despite Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati voicing her support for him.
On Saturday, Mayawati had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his intervention in the Dinakaran row, and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) After a delay of 20 months since it was presented, the government Friday tabled in the Lok Sabha a report on the status of minorities in India that has recommended 10 percent quota for Muslims – the largest minority in the country – in government jobs, educational institutions and social [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) A day after Rajya Sabha Chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari admitted a plea for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Friday said the controversial judge’s elevation to the Supreme Court has been put on hold.
‘We have kept Justice Dinakaran’s name in abeyance in view [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) A government-appointed committee tasked to study the status of religious and linguistic minorities says these communities are ‘under-represented’ and ’sometimes wholly unrepresented’ in government jobs and has recommended that 10 percent government posts be reserved for Muslims.
The report of the National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by Justice [...]
Bangalore, Dec 17 (ANI): Facing an impeachment motion in Rajya Sabha, Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who is flooded with the alleged charges of corruption and land encroachment will not be hearing any court cases till further orders.
According to the notification issued by the High Court Registrar General Budhihal on Wednesday, Justice [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari will today meet MPs to receive the impeachment document against Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, whose elevation as a judge to the Supreme court has been delayed due to charges of land grabbing.
Cutting across party [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan was stable and under observation in a city hospital here, a hospital official said Thursday, a day after he had been admitted with a stomach ailment.
He was admitted to the Apollo Hospital Wednesday with diarrhoea and vomiting.
Balakrishnan, 64, is the 37th chief justice of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Want to know about the plethora of laws that are legislated by India’s parliament and state assemblies? Now there is a single resource for anyone wanting to know about them from a website launched here Wednesday.
The Laws of India database (www.lawsof india.org), a project of PRS Legislative Research, aims to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has been admitted to Apollo Hospital here with diarrhoea and vomiting, a hospital official said Wednesday.
‘He was admitted to the hospital on Dec 8 with vomiting and diarrhoea. He is stable and is under observation,’ the official told IANS.
Balakrishnan, 64, is the 37th chief [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that the Justice Ranganathan Mishra report on the status of religious and linguistic minorities in the country would be tabled in parliament during the ongoing session.
Manmohan Singh’s assurance to the house came following an allegation by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav that the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (ANI): Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan was admitted to a hospital here this morning following a stomach ailment.
According to sources, Justice Balakrishan, who has been unwell since last evening, has been taken to Apollo Hospital.
He will not be presiding over his court today. (ANI)
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The hearing on the high-profile Krishna-Godavari gas dispute between Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) was cancelled Wednesday, as Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan was indisposed.
‘We will let you know later when the hearing will resume,’ a senior official in the apex court’s registrar’s office said, confirming [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has been admitted to Apollo Hospital, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Balakrishnan, 64, was admitted late Tuesday after he developed an illness.
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) The government has not so far taken a view on the suggestion by the chief justice of India on appointments to the higher judiciary, parliament was informed Monday.
‘The government has not taken a view on it. I cannot give a positive reply,’ Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said during question [...]
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday suspended a Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order that asked the apex court’s registry to make public various documents on recent appointment of its three judges, superseding other senior chief justices of various high courts.
A bench of B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice Deepak Verma also suspended that [...]
New Delhi, Dec 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court has taken a decision in its own favour, deciding not to disclose the details with respect to the promotion of the judges to the apex court.
The fact that Supreme Court was hearing this case, involving its own appeal had also triggered a controversy.
Earlier this week, the court [...]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (ANI): The Supreme Court (SC) today turned down a plea of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Mayawati to begin the construction and maintenance work at the Rs 2600 crore Ambedkar site in Lucknow.
Justice H S Bedi, who was heading the apex court bench, decided to quit hearing the matter, after senior [...]
