{"id":16608,"date":"2012-01-27T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=16608"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:11:54","slug":"supreme-court-relief-for-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-relief-for-krishna","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court relief for Krishna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-relief-for-krishna\/supreme-court-158\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16609\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-relief-for-krishna\/supreme-court-158\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/supreme-court2.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/supreme-court2.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16609\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/supreme-court2.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/supreme-court2.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/supreme-court2.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>In a breather for External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the probe by the Karnataka Lokayukta police into the de-reservation of 11,620 sq km of forest land for mining when he was the Karnataka chief minister during 1999-2004.<\/p>\n<p>An apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra stayed the probe after senior counsel K.K. Venugopal told the court that a decision to de-reserve the forest land was taken by the cabinet and an individual could not be targeted for that.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the report by former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, the court said that it was to be followed by another supplementary report before anything could be done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breather for External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the probe by the Karnataka Lokayukta police into the de-reservation of 11,620 sq km of forest land for mining when he was the Karnataka chief minister during 1999-2004. 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Pinto, who Wednesday took up Krishna\u2019s petition, adjourned the hearing to Thursday as the former chief minister\u2019s lawyer sought time. Krishna filed the petition Dec 9 after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;High Profile Cases&quot;","block_context":{"text":"High Profile Cases","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/high-profile-cases"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16630,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sex-workers-issue-trans-gender-rehabilitation-key-supreme-court","url_meta":{"origin":16608,"position":4},"title":"Sex workers issue trans-gender, rehabilitation key: Supreme Court","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court Friday said rescue and rehabilitation of girl sex workers was a complex problem, and could not be solved without schemes for their rehabilitation. The transgender dimension of the issue should also be looked into, it said \"It is very complex. It is also a transgender problem and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Criminal Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Criminal Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/criminal-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/supreme-court3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22689,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rehab-of-sex-workers-can-be-gender-neutral-says-sc","url_meta":{"origin":16608,"position":5},"title":"Rehab of sex workers can be gender-neutral, says SC","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"August 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court today opined that rehabilitation of sex workers should be gender-neutral so as to include male sex workers and transgenders. \"What about male sex workers and transgenders? 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