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High Profile Cases

High Profile Cases

Kanhaiya dares JNU panel’s power to hold him guilty

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Former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, involved in a sedition row, today questioned the power of a university panel to determine his guilt of alleged indiscipline in connection with the February 2016 event in which anti-India slogans were said to have been raised. “I (Kanhaiya) am questioning the legitimacy of the entire process of issuing me […]

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Jaya, Sasikala had jewellery, cars worth crores: SC

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Gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 2.51 crore and wrist watches worth Rs 15.9 lakh were part of the Rs 55 crore assets amassed by late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, her close aide V K Sasikala and two others. Besides Jayalalithaa against whom the proceedings got abated owing to her death, Sasikala and her two […]

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Wife meets BSF jawan, tells HC she is satisfied?

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The wife of the BSF jawan, who took to social media to air grievances on the quality of food being served to soldiers, today told Delhi High Court that she is satisfied about her husband’s well-being after meeting him. The submission regarding the meeting of the couple was made before a bench of justices G […]

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SC wants Shahabuddin shifted from Siwan prison to Tihar jail

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The Supreme Court today directed that controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin be shifted to Tihar Jail here from a prison in Bihar to ensure “free and fair trial” in the cases lodged against him. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy asked the Bihar government to transfer Shahabuddin to Tihar Jail within a […]

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SC convicts Sasikala in DA case, dashes her bid to be TN CM

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AIADMK chief V K Sasikala was today convicted in a corruption case by Supreme Court which dashed her ambition to become the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, as the verdict holding her guilty of entering into a conspiracy with late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa would bar her from electoral politics for the next decade. The apex […]

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Swamy hails SC verdict convicting Sasikala and others

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BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today hailed the Supreme Court verdict convicting AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala in disproportionate assets case, saying the 20-year-old wait has yielded results and it does not matter which party does corruption but the courts will take a tough stand. Swamy, who had filed the first complaint in 1996 as […]

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Madras High Court case ag’st Karnan referred to 7-judge bench

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The Supreme Court today referred to a bench of seven-judges the plea of registrar general of Madras High Court against the order passed by Justice C S Karnan staying his own transfer. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and D Y Chandrachud said it will be better the instant case was also dealt by the […]

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Written statements taken from 119 MLAs, TN PP informs HC

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Amid allegations that MLAs supporting V K Sasikala were being kept in illegal detention, the Madras High Court was today informed that 119 MLAs have given in writing they were staying on their “own volition”. A team, comprising one ADSP, four inspectors, as many sub-inspectors and two tehsildars, had gone to the resort on February […]

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SC refuses to interfere with selection, appointment of new AMU

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The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with the process of selection and appointment of Vice Chancellor (VC) for the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and dismissed a plea in this regard. The apex court also declined to de-tag another plea in which the appointment of the current VC has been challenged from the petition in […]

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SC strikes down provisions of Karnataka quota law on promotion

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In order to provide reservation in promotions, the states must first determine whether the criteria of ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘overall efficiency’ are fulfilled, the Supreme Court has said. The apex court set aside provisions of the ‘Karnataka Determination of Seniority of the Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (to the posts […]

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Swamy files list of witnesses in National Herald case

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BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today submitted a list of witnesses and other evidences before a Delhi court in the National Herald case filed by him against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders. The counsel for Swamy filed the documents before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen, who had on December 26 last year given him the […]

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Row over food: HC allows wife of BSF jawan to meet him

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The Delhi High court today asked the Centre to allow the wife of the BSF jawan, who went public through the social media alleging poor quality food being served to soldiers, to meet and stay with him for two days at the base where he is posted at present. The direction by a division bench […]

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