High Profile Cases Everybody saw 2G scam when there was none: Special CBI judge December 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Giving a body blow to the CAG’s and CBI’s estimation of huge loss in grant of 2G licences, a special court today held that some people “artfully” arranged few selected facts and created a scam “when there was none”. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its report that created an uproar when the UPA […] Read more » 2G scam CAG CBI Comptroller and Auditor General Court featured Law Legal News
High Profile Cases Construction workers’ funds spent on laptops; SC anguished November 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Laptops and washing machines were bought out of a whopping Rs 29,000 crore fund meant for the welfare of construction workers and less than ten per cent spent on the actual purpose. Terming this as a “shocking” and “extremely distressing” state of affairs, the Supreme Court has said the funds, collected by the government through […] Read more » CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Construction workers' funds spent on laptops Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases How has Rs 20k cr meant for workers’ welfare been spent: SC May 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Where has a whopping amount of Rs 20,000 crore, meant for workers’ welfare, gone? Spent on tea parties or vacation of officials? Even the Comptroller and Auditor General doesn’t know, wondered the Supreme Court. These posers were put to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) by the Supreme Court which was left wondering as to […] Read more » CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Court featured Law Legal News Spent on tea parties or vacation of officials Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi power discoms not cooperating in audit, CAG tells HC March 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the three power discoms in the national capital were not cooperating in the audit of their finances. The CAG complained to Justice Manmohan that the three discoms – Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd, BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna – were not providing […] Read more » BSES Rajdhani BSES Yamuna CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Delhi power discoms not cooperating in audit news Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC notice on telecom operators’ plea against CAG audit February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government and the Comptroller and Auditor General on a plea by the telecom companies challenging the auditing of their account books by the official auditor. Issuing notice to the government and the CAG, a bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Vikramajit Sen declined to put […] Read more » CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Vikramajit Sen news SC notice on telecom operators' plea against CAG audit todays news todays top news_ Top news
Top Law News Explain extra allowances to MPs: Court January 23, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the central government to explain why extra allowances are being paid to MPs. The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the central government to explain why extra allowances are being paid to MPs. A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the central government […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Rajeeve Mehra advocate Sitab Ali Chaudhary CAG Chief Justice N.V. Ramana Comptroller and Auditor General Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC tells petitioners to move high court on CAG appointment July 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the former chief election commissioner N. Gopalaswami to move the Delhi High Court as it declined to entertain his petition challenging the appointment of former defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma as the CAG of India. “Go to high court,” said the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir […] Read more » CAG chief election commissioner Chief Justice Altamas Kabir Comptroller and Auditor General Fali Nariman N. Gopalaswami national news news SC tells petitioners to move high court on CAG appointment Shashi Kant Sharma todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC agrees to hear PIL challenging appointment of Sharma as CAG May 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SC agrees to hear PIL challenging appointment of Sharma as CAG The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a PIL challenging appointment of Shashi Kant Sharma as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). A Bench of Justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra, however, said there is no urgency in taking up the matter during vacation and posted the case for hearing in July. […] Read more » CAG Vinod Rai Comptroller and Auditor General national news news SC agrees to hear PIL challenging appointment of Sharma as CAG Shashi Kant Sharma Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News CAG not exceeding mandate, rules apex court October 1, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on CAG not exceeding mandate, rules apex court The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that contended the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was not mandated to go into policy decisions of the government to arrive at presumptive losses. The PIL petitioner, economist Dr Rakesh Gupta contended that the CAG exceeded the brief of constitutional mandate by commenting on policy […] Read more » allocation of coal blocks auditor of a company or corporation CAG exceeds his constitutional CAG exceeds his statutory mandate CAG not exceeding mandate cause of economic justice for two decades Comptroller and Auditor General economist Dr Rakesh Gupta efficacy of government decisions efficacy of the government's policy decisions Justice Anil R. Dave Justice R.M. Lodha Petitioner Rakesh Gupta power sector reports on civil aviation rules apex court Supreme Court dismissed a public interest litigation Supreme Court while rejecting the PIL
Top Law News Court should be kept out of 2G, coal block politics: SC September 28, 2012 / September 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court Justice J.S. Khehar Thursday noted the allotment of natural resources has become a political issue and even hit work in two sessions of parliament, but stressed the court should not become part of this “political debate”. “One is compelled to take judicial notice of the fact that allotment of natural resources is an […] Read more » 2G spectrum verdict account of defects in the disposal mechanism allegations appearing in the media coal block politics: SC Comptroller and Auditor General Court should be kept out of 2G Court's advisory jurisdiction to iron out the creases Extensive revenue loss legal and constitutional parameters are correctly understood methods for disposal of natural resources PIL by Centre for Public Interest Litigation political debate political issue and even hit work in two sessions of parliament Supreme Court Justice J.S. Khehar
High Profile Cases Ghai land allotment row: BJP says Deshmukh must quit April 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thursday sought union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s resignation following the Supreme Court’s observation that land allotment to filmmaker Subhash Ghai in Maharashtra for his film academy during Deshmukh’s term as chief minister was not transparent. “The way in which he had allotted land for a media baron, which was stuck down by the high court and […] Read more » Bombay High Court Comptroller and Auditor General Filmmaker Subhash Ghai Ghai land allotment row Supreme Court
Top Law News School slaps ‘property tax’ on students, parents move court October 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Parents of children studying in a private school in east Delhi have moved the Delhi High Court challenging the institution’s decision to collect from them Rs.430 per month as “property tax”. Justice Kailash Gambhir Monday issued notice to St. Lawrence Convent Senior Secondary School, the Delhi government and government auditor seeking their response on the […] Read more » Comptroller and Auditor General Delhi High Court Justice Kailash Gambhir School slaps 'property tax' on students
