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High Profile Cases

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Plea for court-monitored probe in chopper scam

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The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by CBI and the Enforcement Directorate in the AgustaWestland helicopter scam case and the allegation that some media persons took bribes from foreign arms dealers in connection with the deal. A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Arun Mishra asked the counsel […]

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Reddy, associates remanded in JC till Jan 17

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A CBI court today remanded sand mining baron J Shekar Reddy and four others in judicial custody till January 17 in a fresh case relating to seizure of currency notes from his house here. Judge Venkatasamy of the 11th CBI court dealing with bank fraud cases sent all of them to judicial custody in the […]

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Repromulgation of ordinances “fraud” on the Constitution: SC

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Repromulgation of ordinances is a “fraud” on the Constitution and a sub-version of democratic legislative processes, especially when the government persistently avoids the placing the ordinances before the legislature, the Supreme Court today ruled. A seven-judge Constitution bench, by a majority of 6:1, held that repromulgation is constitutionally “impermissible” and “defeats constitutional scheme” under which […]

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Solar scam:Ex-CM Chandy appears in B’luru court

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Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today appeared in a city civil court in connection with a solar project cheating case, with the court directing him to be present before it on every hearing to begin the process of cross-examination. Additional City Civil and Sessions Court Judge N R Channakeshava had directed the Congress leader […]

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Cannot seek votes in name of religion, caste: SC

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In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court today held that any appeal for votes on the ground of “religion, race, caste, community or language” amounted to “corrupt practice” under the election law provision. Referring to the term ‘his religion’ used in section 123(3) of the Representation of The Peoples (RP) Act, which deals with ‘corrupt […]

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Delhi HC grants a day’s parole to O P Chautala to attend grandson’s engagement

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The Delhi High Court today granted parole for one day to ex-Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, serving a 10-year jail term in teachers’ recruitment scam case, to attend his grandson and MP Dushyant Chautala’s engagement on January 3, 2017. Justice Vipin Sanghi ordered Chautala’s release for a day on his furnishing a bond of […]

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Chopper deal: HC notice to Tyagi on CBI plea against his bail

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Delhi High Court today sought the response of ex-IAF chief S P Tyagi, who is on bail after being arrested in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, on CBI’s plea challenging his bail claiming its probe would be “hampered” if he remains out. Justice Vipin Sanghi issued notice to Tyagi, who was arrested on December 9 and […]

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National Kabaddi player Rohit Kumar, dad get bail

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National Kabaddi player Rohit Kumar, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide by his wife Lalita who had accused him and her in-laws of harassment, was today granted bail by a Delhi court. Besides Rohit, the court also granted the relief to his father Vijay Singh on a personal bond of Rs one lakh each […]

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2016 saw several pro-consumer verdicts

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Sale of packaged drinking water above MRP, medical negligence cases and delay in handing over of flats by builders were some issues that led the consumer fora to take sellers and service providers to task in 2016. Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had to knock the doors of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) […]

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US woman’s gangrape: Court sends four accused to 2-day custody

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Four men, arrested for allegedly raping a US tourist in a 5-star hotel earlier this year, were today sent to two-day judicial custody by a city court. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh sent the accused to Tihar Jail after Delhi Police moved an application seeking their judicial custody. Yesterday, the police had arrested a tour guide, […]

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Court rejects Swamy’s plea for papers in National Herald case

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In a relief to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, a Delhi court today rejected “as fishing inquiry” a plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking a direction to Congress party and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) to produce certain records related to the National Herald case. The court said that Swamy “seemed to enlarge the scope of […]

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Law Ministry faced flak over vacancies in courts in 2016

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2016 can be summed up as a year when the Law Ministry came under constant fire of outgoing Chief Justice of India T S Thakur for rising vacancies in the higher judiciary even as its efforts to finalise a document to guide appointments in high courts and the Supreme Court failed. On its part, the […]

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