Legal India Audit ‘erroneous’ in fixing spectrum loss at $40 bn: Sibal January 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment Short of rejecting the official auditor’s report, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the methodology it used was “utterly erroneous” in pegging Rs.1.76 lakh crore ($40 billion) as the notional loss while awarding airwaves for second generation (2G) phone services in 2008.Sibal also slammed the opposition for disrupting the entire winter session of parliament and […] Read more » 3G spectrum Communications Minister kapil sibal
Legal India Court upholds Swamy’s plea against Raja January 7, 2011 | 2 Comments on Court upholds Swamy’s plea against Raja A Delhi court today held as ”maintainable” Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s private complaint to prosecute former Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2G scam and began the process of recording depositions and examining evidence for summoning the accused. “I am of the opinion that complaint as such is maintainable,” Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chaddah […] Read more » A. Raja former Telecom Minister Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy
Legal India CPI-M flays apex court on ban on roadside meetings January 7, 2011 / January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday described as “highly unfortunate” the Supreme Court decision to uphold a ban on public meetings and rallies on roadsides in Kerala. “It is highly unfortunate the Supreme Court had upheld the judgement of the Kerala High Court,” the CPI-M said in a statement here, a day after the […] Read more » CPI-M
Legal India CBI to court: Rajesh Talwar has no locus standi to argue January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment A special CBI court here adjourned hearing in the Aarushi murder case till Jan 21 and asked the probe agency to provide all documents, including its closure report, to the victim’s parents even as the CBI said her father Rajesh Talwar had no ”locus standi” to argue. “On the basis of the findings of the […] Read more » CBI Court Rajesh Talwar
Legal India CBI files fourth FIR, no mention of Kalmadi January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment The CBI Thursday filed a fourth police complaint over corruption related to the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and raided at least 10 premises of four companies in the national capital region. Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi does not figure in the probe agency’s fresh complaint. ‘The CBI has registered a case against director general and […] Read more » CBI Commonwealth Games First Information Report Kalmadi
Legal India Citi banker accused of Rs.300 crore fraud gets six-day police remand January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment Citibank manager Shivraj Puri, accused of masterminding a Rs.300 crore fraud, was handed a six-day police remand Thursday. ‘Puri was produced in court and he has been remanded to six-day police custody,’ Puri’s lawyer Sartaj Baswana said. An official said police took Puri’s custody to trace an iPad that contains important information. Also, experts with […] Read more » Citibank manager Shivraj Puri
Legal India India urged to repeal sedition law January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Indian parliament should repeal the colonial-era sedition law which it said was employed to silence peaceful political dissent, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. And the Indian government should drop sedition cases against prominent activists such as Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy and others, the US-based body said. In two recent cases, in New Delhi and […] Read more » Arundhati Roy Binayak Sen sedition law
Legal India Gujjars again talk to Rajasthan government January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment A 36-member Gujjar team began another round of talks Wednesday with the Rajasthan government even as the community continued to block rail tracks for the 17th day demanding job quotas. The delegation, led by retired army colonel K.S. Bainsla, opened negotiations with a three-member ministerial committee in a bid to end a dragging row over […] Read more » Gujjars K.S. Bainsla Rajasthan
Legal India Kolkata doctors protest for Binayak Sen’s release January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish and dissent over the life imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen, city-based medical practitioners, professors and students Tuesday held a protest here and started a signature campaign demanding his release. Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner ‘Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign’ joined the protest. ‘Binayak Sen was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Legal India Settle corruption cases speedily, Himachal courts told January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment Himachal Pradesh High Court’s Chief Justice Kurian Joseph has directed all the session judges in the state to dispose of corruption cases on a priority basis, an official statement said Tuesday. In a missive to the session judges, Justice Joseph has directed them to dispose of corruption cases prior to 2008 by June 30, 2011. […] Read more » corruption Himachal courts
