New Delhi: Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati has reportedly written to the Law Ministry on reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in job promotions, pointing out that the proposal is not legally possible. Sources say that Vahanvati has told the Law Ministry that reservation for SCs/ STs in promotions could be struck down by the Supreme Court.
The government is in favour of reservation for the SCs/ STs in job promotions. Following the all-party meeting on August 21, Minister of State for PMO V Narayanasamy said that the government was ready to bring in constitutional amendments on the issue.
The minister, however, said that no time frame had been set for the implementation of the quota.
Earlier, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the all-party meeting that the government would bring legally-sustainable amendment very soon to provide quota to SCs and STs in government job promotions....
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12:36 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reportedly asked for advice from Attorney General of India Goolam E Vahanvati on the Supreme Court's order cancelling 122 licences allotted by the Telecommunications Ministry during the tenure of former minister A Raja after January 10, 2008. Sources told CNN-IBN that the Prime Minister wants to know whether a review petition is required to be filed in the case. Singh has also asked...
04:27 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned two officials of the Prime Minister's Office in connection with the investigation into the 2G spectrum scam. Principal Secretary TKA Nair and Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar have been summoned to appear before the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi-led PAC on April 16. Law Secretary DR Meena and Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati will appear before the PAC on April...
04:26 PM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has questioned Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati in the 2G spectrum scam case. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the CBI grilled him about the legal opinion he gave when he was the solicitor general of India to telecom minister A Raja. Vahanvatti was questioned by the CBI a few days back about about the legal opinion he gave as the solicitor general...
10:13 AM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati should recuse himself from the 2G spectrum scam case in the Supreme Court. Swamy claimed that former telecom minister A Raja, who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the multi-crore case, had in a letter to the Prime Minister that he (Raja)...
01:42 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Government on Wednesday told the Supreme court that former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's phone was tapping illegally and that no authorisation was given for the same by the Government of India. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly took strong exception of the illegal phone tapping and asked Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati to file an affidavit telling what action has been taken...
12:18 PM, Feb 02, 2011
