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Madras High Court on Friday quashed criminal prosecution against the wife, son and daughter-in-law of former Union Minister P Chidambaram in a black money case, holding that no offence was made out against them. This is a major relief for Chidambaram and his son Karti who have been fighting charges against them by the CBI Read More…
Justices Hemant Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, MR Shah and Ajay Rastogi were on Friday, November 2, sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court, taking its strength to 28. Unlike last time where the appointment of Judge Joesph has caused bitter war between centre and SC , this time the central government processed the file Read More…
Edappadi K Palaniswami government in Tamil Nadu has got a temporary relief of sorts with Justice M Sathyanarayanan, the third judge of Madras High Court upholding validity of Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal’s September 18, 2017 order disqualifying 18 AIADMK MLAs, owing allegiance to TTV Dhinakaran, for submitting a memorandum seeking change of chief Read More…
When YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy was at the Vizag airport to catch a flight to Hyderabad he was attacked with a knife by a 30-year-old restaurant worker at the airport in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam on Thursday. Reddy received a cut on his arm after he was attacked with the knife used during cockfights Read More…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed chargesheet against former Union minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case. The agency has named nine accused in the case including Chidambaram, S Bhaskaraman and four Maxis companies in the supplementary chargesheet. CBI Special Judge OP Saini fixed November 26 for consideration of the chargesheet. Earlier Read More…
Kerala police Thursday detaining over 1000 people in a crackdown on those allegedly involved in the violent protests against entry of women of all ages into the hilltop sabarimala temple In the regard Kerala police had filed cases against 2000 persons and issued a lookout notices against 210 persons. “In a major swoop, we detained Read More…
In a major set back to ADMK party Supremo ., Justice AD Jagadish Chandira gave direction on petition by DMK, after perusing report filed by Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption. The Madras High Court on Friday ordered a CBI probe into allegations of corruption in award of road contracts by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Read More…
A high-power committee meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan discussed various arrangements to be made for women devotees, days after the Supreme Court opened the gate of the temple for women of all age. Chief Secretary Tom Jose, Chief Minister’s Private Secretary M V Jayarajan, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) member K P Sankardas and Read More…
The high court granted Navlakha the relief, saying the Supreme Court last week had given him the liberty to approach the appropriate forum within four weeks to seek further recourse, which he has availed. “The period of house arrest, despite the restrictions imposed, was put to good use, so I hold no grudge,” Navlakha, under Read More…
The Uttarakhand High Court today asked the Centre to strictly implement the ban on pornographic websites, taking cognisance of reports that a girl was gang raped in a Dehradun school by her fellow students after they watched porn clips. Issuing a slew of directives to implement the ban Thursday, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Read More…
Former Chief Justice Delhi high Court Dalip Kumar Kapur’s wife was held hostage at her residence allegedly by her servant and accomplices who fled with cash and valuables worth lakhs of rupees, police said Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday night and was reported to police by the daughter of the former judge Dalip Read More…
Stock investors lost heavily and became poorer by Rs 2.72 trillion in two days of market fall which saw the BSE benchmark index diving almost 800 points. Market benchmark BSE Sensex Tuesday tumbled by about 295 points or 0.78 per cent to close at 37,290.67 due to increasing crude oil prices and mounting trade tension. Read More…
In a set back to Congress leaders in National Herald case the Delhi High Court Monday dismissed the pleas of Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi challenging reopening of their tax assessment for 2011-12. The order of a bench came while hearing the plea of Rahul, Sonia Gandhi and her party colleague Oscar Fernandes Read More…
Chennai high court granted three months to Central Crime Branch (CCB) police to complete the investigation relating to Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Group-I recruitment scam and file a comprehensive report before the court. When the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday, the division bench of justices R. Subbiah and R. Pongiappan passed the Read More…
IIT studied Indian Police Service officer 54 year old Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested on Wednesday by police in Gujarat in connection with the arrest of a man for allegedly possessing drugs 22 years ago, officials said. The crime investigation department of Gujarat police arrested Bhatt following a probe ordered into the case by the Gujarat Read More…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the petition filed by Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit seeking a SIT probe in the Malegaon Blast case. According to a Bar and Bench report, the apex court also said that it did not consider it appropriate to interfere in the case. The Apex Court asked him Read More…
The question of dispute in land for 20.62 acres SASTRA university has received jolt and been asked to return its encroachment by Highcourt Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao (since retired) in September last and held that the land must necessarily be retrieved from the university without any scope for conveyance on payment of money. In his Read More…