High Profile Cases CBI registers DA case against Meira Kumar’s secretary September 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar’s secretary A.P. Pathak was on Friday removed and repatriated after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided various premises he owns in a disproportionate assets case. One day before, the Central Bureau of Investigation registered a disproportionate assets case against Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar’s secretary A P Pathak. Pathak […] Read more » A P Pathak CBI Central Bureau of Investigation disproportionate assets case Meira Kumar's secretary
High Profile Cases Black money: SC reserves its order on Centre’s review petition September 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, Sep 1, The Supreme Court today reserved its judgement on the review petition filed by the Centre against its earlier order constituting an SIT headed by a retired apex court judge in the black money case. A bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar fixed September 20 for delivery of the […] Read more » black money Supreme Court Supreme Court on Black Money
High Profile Cases Santiago Martin”s bail plea adjourned to September 5 August 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Salem (TN), Aug 31, The bail plea of lottery king Santiago Martin, who controls a vast lottery empire across the country, has been adjourned to September 5 by a local court here. His bail plea, which came up before the Chief Judicial Magistrate”s court here yesterday, was adjourned to that date after the government […] Read more »
High Profile Cases No comment on stay of Rajiv killers’ hanging: Congress August 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, Aug 31 The Congress Wednesday refused to comment on the staying of the execution of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and said such issues involve constitutional, legal and administrative processes. ‘We have clarified a number of times that the cases of death penalty involve a constitutional process, a legal […] Read more »
High Profile Cases Ex-DMK Minister held for land grabbing August 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK leader N.K.K.P. Raja and four others were arrested in Erode on Thursday in connection with a land grabbing case. Raja becomes the second minister of the previous DMK regime to be taken into custody in the continuing crackdown by the AIADMK government on land grabbing, the first being […] Read more » DMK leader land grabbing case N.K.K.P. Raja Tamil Nadu Minister
High Profile Cases Pandya’s widow seeks arrest of real culprits August 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahmedabad, Aug 31 Jagruti Pandya, widow of slain BJP leader and former Gujarat Minister Haren Pandya, today sought cooperation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader L K Advani in the re-investigation into her husband’s murder so that “real culprits still roaming free” could be booked. Addressing a news conference two days […] Read more » BJP Leader Gujrat Chief Minister Haren Pandyatoday Jagruti Pandya L.K. Advani Narendra Modi
High Profile Cases Raja asks if probe agency decides spectrum sale or auction August 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An investigative agency is neither competent nor authorised to ascertain if airwaves should be auctioned or allotted, former telecom minister A. Raja told a special court here Thursday, amid disruptions due to a lawyers’ strike. ‘The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to my knowledge, is a brand headed by Delhi Police, which can’t exercise judicial […] Read more » auction Judge O.P. Saini Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spectrum sale
High Profile Cases Cash-for-votes scandal: Apex court rebukes Delhi Police August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for its tardy investigations into the cash-for-votes scandal of 2008, when the Congress-led central government was accused of bribing MPs to win a trust vote in parliament. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha Friday took into consideration Delhi Police’s comprehensive status […] Read more » Cash-for-votes scandal Delhi Police Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Swan Telecom questions CAG role August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Swan Telecom Thursday told a Delhi court that the CAG has “no authority to decide” the correct market value of radio frequency airwaves, a scarce national resource, to operate second generation (2G) mobile phone services. The company, listed as an accused in the 2G scam, also rubbished the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) […] Read more » allocation of airwaves CAG CAG role CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini Comptroller and Auditor General of India Swan Telecom Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI
High Profile Cases Videocon got 2G licence through forgery: Balwa August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot got the licence and start-up spectrum for second generation (2G) telecom services through forgery, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa alleged in a special court here Tuesday. “Dhoot flashed the ID card of Rajkumar Dhoot who is his brother and member of parliament and also member of some telecom committee in […] Read more » 2G telecom services CBI court Cineyug's Karim Morani Communications Minister Kapil Sibal Department of Telecom DMK MP Kanimozhi DoT Judge O.P. Saini Kalaignar TV's chief Sharad Kumar Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Swan Telecom promoter hahid Usman Balwa Unitech Wireless's Sanjay Chandra Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot
High Profile Cases Experts begin documenting Kerala temple treasure August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Supreme Court appointed committee of experts Monday began documentation of the Rs.1 lakh crore worth of treasure uncovered in the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple here. Director General of the National Museum, C.V. Ananda Bose, who heads the five-member panel, led his colleagues after 3 p.m into the place where the treasure has been stored in […] Read more » documenting Experts Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice M.N. Krishnan Justice R.V. Raveendran Kerala temple treasure late T.P. Sunderarajan Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Police mum on Hazare request for fast August 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Police mum on Hazare request for fast Gandhian Anna Hazare on Monday said police has not indicated whether or not he can hold a hunger strike against corruption at the Jantar Mantar here from Aug 16. “We sent an application to the police commissioner seeking permission for the fast but have got no response. There has been no formal letter denying us […] Read more » activist Arvind Kejriwal anti-graft Lokpal bill Hazare request for fast against corruption