New Delhi: The row over the opaque electoral bonds scheme is far from over with a plea being filed in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into alleged instances of “apparent quid pro quo” involving political parties, corporate entities and officials of investigative agencies. A five-judge constitution bench…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ruled that public sector banks do not have the power in law to issue Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against default borrowers. The HC’s verdict would render all LOCs issued by such banks against defaulters as quashed. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Madhav Jamdar held as…
New Delhi: Observing that the legal profession needed “mature people”, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the Centre and the Bar Council of India to set up an expert committee for exploring the feasibility of introducing a three-year LLB course after class 12 instead of the existing five-year…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed with costs a public interest litigation by a law student seeking “extraordinary interim bail” for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam, calling it “totally misconceived”. The counsel for the embattled AAP leader…
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…
