New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear Nupur Talwar's bail plea in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. Nupur, prime accused in the murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, had filed a review plea as well a plea for bail the 2008 murder case. The Supreme Court on Wednesday had termed as "premature", the arguments of dentist Nupur Talwar for quashing of proceedings against her...
04:31 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court in an interim order on Tuesday struck down the Centre's policy of giving subsidies to Haj pilgrims. The court also asked the Centre to eliminate the policy of Haj subsidies over a period of ten years. The apex court further said, "This (subsidies) amount can be more profitably used for social and educational development of the Muslim community." The Supreme Court also directed the Centre...
08:43 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The families of the two Kerala fishermen shot dead by Italian marines in February this year agreed to withdraw their cases on Friday after an Italian compensation offer of Rs 1 crore. However, in more drama, the Centre's lawyer in the Supreme Court faulted the Kerala Police for detaining the ship, a comment later clarified by the Ministry of External Affairs. Additional Solicitor General Haren Rawal told the...
09:38 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act. It means all schools except unaided minority institutions and boarding schools now will have to reserve 25 per cent seats for economically backward students. Reacting to the judgement, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said, "I am glad the Supreme Court brought clarity. Education can now be child centric and not institution centric." The...
10:44 PM, Apr 12, 2012
My Lords (Justice SH Kapadia, Justice DK Jain, Justice SS Nijjar, Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice JS Kehar), "News is something someone somewhere ...
01:05 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday criticised both yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Delhi Police for the midnight crackdown on Ramdev's agitation at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi last June that led to the death of one person. The court called the police action an abuse of power and also held the yoga guru guilty of negligence. The court also ruled that Rs 5 lakh be paid as compensation, 25...
10:27 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: In an embarrassing goof-up, the government on Thursday tied itself in knots in the Supreme Court by first disapproving decriminalisation of gay sex terming it as "highly immoral" and later taking a different line, drawing sharp criticism from the bench. In 2009, the gay community celebrated a landmark verdict by Delhi High Court for decriminilising gay sex in the country but three years later the government disapproved of...
10:15 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday opposed decriminalisation of gay sex in the country before the Supreme Court. "This is highly immoral and against the social order," the Ministry told the apex court. The Ministry said that India's moral and social values are different from those of other countries and India cannot be guided by them. Delhi High court had earlier passed a judgement which decriminalized Section -...
12:09 PM, Feb 23, 2012
An Ahmedabad court will decide whether the SIT report, which was submitted on Feb 8 should be made public or not. ...
12:32 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court will on Monday hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team in the Gulbarg society massacre in the 2002 riots. It will also hear the petitions of social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed in a sealed envelope last week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the SIT has reportedly given a clean chit to Gujarat...
07:32 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh lost the battle over his age as the Supreme Court on Friday said that 1950 will be treated as the Army Chief's year of birth. Following this, General VK Singh withdrew his plea from the Supreme Court after the court decided that 1950 will be treated as his year of birth for all service matters. The court said that the Union Public Service...
09:20 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: A day after stinging comments by the Gujarat High Court on the 2002 riots, there was reprieve for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi almost a decade after the worst communal flare up in the state. The Supreme Court's Special Investigation Team filed its closure report in a sealed envelope before the trial court and sources say that it has not found enough evidence to prosecute the Gujarat Chief Minister....
06:59 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a big blow to the UPA government, the Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped all the 122 2G licenses issued during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja. The apex court also left it to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) trial court to decide within two weeks on then finance minister P Chidambaram's alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation. The government was quick in defending...
10:32 PM, Feb 02, 2012
The Supreme Court is set to give a judgment on Thursday on the role of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam. ...
07:14 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the Government in the 2G scam, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that any decision concerning whether a private citizen had permission to prosecute a public servant, must be taken within four months. The Prime Minister's Office had allegedly been delaying a decision on Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy's petition seeking permission from it to prosecute former telecom minister A Raja in...
08:13 PM, Jan 31, 2012
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