New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday assured bar leaders to consider their demand for withdrawal of the collegium’s recommendation to transfer Delhi High Court’s Justice Yashwant Varma, Allahabad High Court Bar Association president Anil Tiwari said. The representatives of six bar associations of different high courts met the CJI and other…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to AAP leader and former chief minister Atishi on a plea challenging her election on grounds of alleged corrupt practices during the recent assembly polls here. Justice Jyoti Singh also issued a notice to the Election Commission of India, Delhi Police and the returning officer…
New Delhi: Three members of the Supreme Court-appointed in-house committee on Tuesday commenced its inquiry into the alleged cash discovery row involving Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, sources said. They said the three members — Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Justice G S Sandhawalia, Chief…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court’s inquiry report and a video uploaded on the Supreme Court website have cast doubt on the Delhi Fire Services’ claim that fire fighters found no cash while dousing flames at the official residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, a Delhi High Court judge, on March 14. The video, shared by…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has made public a 25-page probe report by Delhi High Court Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya regarding the alleged recovery of cash from the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma. The report, now available on the apex court’s website, calls for a “deeper probe” into the controversy while also documenting Justice…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said misinformation and rumours were being spread over the incident related to Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, from whose official residence a large stash of cash was allegedly discovered after a fire. The proposal for Justice Varma’s transfer to Allahabad High Court, the court statement said,…
New Delhi: A senior lawyer appearing in the Delhi High Court on Friday expressed “shock and pain” after an alleged incident of cash discovery at the official residence of its sitting judge Justice Yashwant Varma came to light. The purported discovery followed a major fire at the residence. After the lawyer said many in the…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday refused to stop the proposed Cauvery Aarti programme at Sankey Tank scheduled on March 21. A division bench comprising Chief Justice NV Anjaria and Justice KV Aravind disposed of the application filed in this regard after attaining assurance by the state government, BWSSB, and BBMP that there would be…
New Delhi: Supreme Court’s Justice B R Gavai and five other judges would visit the relief camps in ethnic violence-hit Manipur on March 22, the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has said. Over 200 people were killed, several hundreds injured and thousands displaced since ethnic violence first broke out in the state on May 3,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Madras High Court order directing a CBI probe into corruption allegations against former AIADMK minister K T Rajendra Balaji in a cash-for-job scam case. A bench comprising Justices Pankaj Mithal and S V N Bhatti passed the order while hearing two pleas including the one filed…
