New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking voting facilities for around 18,000 people displaced internally due to the ethnic strife in Manipur for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The polling for the two Lok Sabha seats of Manipur will be held in two phases on April 19 and 26….
New Delhi: A setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as the Supreme Court on Monday declined to provide interim relief in his plea challenging his arrest and detention in the Delhi Excise Policy scam case. The two-judge bench, headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta, refrained from issuing any orders on Monday,…
New Delhi: More trouble is in store for yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his associate Acharya Balkrishna for allegedly violating the Supreme Court’s order by publishing misleading medical advertisements. An angry Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed them and said it cannot let them off by accepting their apology, adding that a message has to go…
New Delhi: In a massive setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed his petition challenging his arrest in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam, saying there was no contravention of legal provisions. Besides his arrest, Kejriwal, who is currently in judicial custody in Tihar…
New Delhi: In a significant development for Tamil Nadu Rural Development Minister I Periyasamy, the Supreme Court has intervened by halting the trial court proceedings against him in a corruption case. This decision, delivered on Monday, comes as a relief for Periyasamy who was facing legal action. A two-judge bench of the apex court, led…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday directed AAP leader Sanjay Singh not to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses in the Excise “scam” case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja passed the directions before passing an order to release Singh from Tihar central jail following bail granted to him by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna of Patanjali for filing inappropriate affidavits in connection with misleading advertisements for Patanjali’s medicinal products. Both Ramdev and Balkrishna appeared in person before the SC’s two-judge bench, headed by Justice Hima Kohli and also comprising Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, complying with…
New Delhi: The counsel for BRS leader K Kavitha, arrested in connection with the excise policy ‘scam’, on Monday told a court here that Enforcement Directorate was acting as a “persecuting agency” and the probe against his client was “totally motivated”. The arguments were made before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja by senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi,…
Kasaragod: A court here on Saturday acquitted three RSS activists in a case relating to the murder of a madrassa teacher inside a mosque in the district in 2017. Kasaragod Principal Sessions Court Judge K K Balakrishnan acquitted Akhilesh, Nidhin, and Ajesh, all three residents of Kelugude, in the case. The accused spent seven years…
Hyderabad: Asserting that public spaces often reflect pre-existing social inequalities in society, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Wednesday said creation of new infrastructure is not only good for lawyers and judges, but it is also intended to reach out to the broader cross-section of our society. He was speaking after laying the…
