New Delhi: After over five months in jail, the DMK was hoping that Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi would finally get bail. In a reversal of it's stand in the Supreme Court even the CBI counsel UU Lalit told the special court that it does not oppose Kanimozhi's bail plea but at the end of the day Justice O P Saini scripted an anti-climax when he reserved orders for November 3. Earlier...
08:41 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will continue hearing the bail petition of Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra in the 2G case on Friday. The defence teams of co-accused Rajiv Agarwal and Asif Balwa of Kusegaon Fruits will also be completing their arguments in the court. There is a possibility of court reversing order against them. ...
08:43 AM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: Making its stand clear in the 2G case, the government on Wednesday said that it would oppose the bail of all the accused, including DMK MP Kanimozhi in the spectrum allocation case. The Supreme Court judges on Wednesday took strong exception to the media reports that the government was not going to oppose bail of 2G accused. The judges hearing the case ask Additional Solicitor General about the...
02:43 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CBI raided the Maran brothers in the 2G case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday pledged full support to the duo, calling CBI raids on them a 'conspiracy'. "News reports about me not supporting Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi Maran are wrong and disturbing, the DMK patriarch in a statement issued on Tuesday. "I have already said it's a conspiracy against DMK. Murosoli Maran has given them...
02:25 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a plea seeking a probe into the role of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The apex court completed the hearing on the application, seeking probe against Chidambaram and formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to oversee the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation. The CBI had opposed the plea, saying that if...
04:45 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: Fireworks are expected at the Public Accounts committee (PAC) meet on Monday with the Opposition set to tear into the government on the finance ministry's 2G note, while the Congress will try to rebut the CAG's alleged inflated losses in the spectrum allocation. PAC has decided to call Deputy CAG RP Singh to depose as witness. CAG Vinod Rai and Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta will depose to explain...
01:09 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday resume hearing of Janata party president Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking a CBI probe into the role of Home Minister P Chidambram in deciding the 2G spectrum price. Swamy has claimed that he has evidence to show that Chidambaram who was earlier Finance Minister had decided the 2G pricing along with the former Telecom Minister A Raja. Besides this, a bench of Justice...
07:39 AM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: With no final word yet from the Supreme Court on the 2G case involving Home Minister, both the Centre and the CBI said the court on Tuesday that there was no need to further investigate Chidamabaram's role. The court will continue hearing the matter on Wednesday. It was the CBI versus the government in the 2G case. Asserting its independence in the Supreme Court, the CBI counsel locked ...
08:50 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party trained its guns on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former finance minister Jaswant Singh was also questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The statement of the BJP leader was recorded by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The CBI completed its interrogation of Jaswant Singh, which had been going on for the past two days, as part of...
01:13 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: In the 2G spectrum allocation case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are likely to file fresh status reports before the Supreme Court on Thursday. The investigating agencies are expected to brief a bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly on the findings made by them after July 6 when the last status report was placed before the court. During...
07:20 AM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the bail pleas of Unitech Wireless' Managing Director Sanjay Chandra and Swan Telecom's Director Vinod Goenka who have alleged that the CBI was acting in a discriminatory and arbitrary manner in 2G spectrum case. A bench comprising justices GS Singhvi and HL Dattu will peruse the response of the CBI to their contentions for release from Tihar jail on bail.The court...
09:24 AM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: Salman Khurshid took charge as the country's new Law Minister on Wednesday and said that his first order of business will be taking a decision on the resignation of Solicitor General Gopal Subramnaiam. "I will just take a quick stock on the situation in consultation with the Prime Minister. Any such decision that I have to take as quickly as i can," Khurshid said. On priorities as Law...
08:50 AM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: Attorney General Goolam E Vahnavati and corporate lobbyist Nira Radia are among the 125 witnesses listed in the CBI chargesheet in the 2G spectrum scam. The name of government's top law officer figures as witness number 32 in the CBI chargesheet, while Radia figures in the list in the 44th position. The first chargesheet in the 2G spectrum allocation scam indicts former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight...
05:55 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: A court exclusively set up for the 2G Spectrum scam on Saturday took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by CBI against former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight others saying "there is enough incriminating material to proceed against the accused persons". "I have carefully gone through the FIR, chargesheet, statements of witnesses and related documents and on the perusal of the record, I am satisfied that there is...
05:38 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hold final hearing on a day-to-day basis from April 19 on Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata's plea to bar online portals and electronic media from airing his phone conversation with corporate lobbyist Nira Radia tapped by the Income Tax Department. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly will examine the issues raised by Tata including the...
05:27 PM, Apr 01, 2011
