Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday continued to be defiant and stuck to her stand on the judiciary. She repeated her comment against the judiciary made in Assembly last week. The West Bengal Chief Minister spoke of eroding values in the judiciary and said she had no qualms that a legal case had been filed against her. Emphasising that judicial reforms are much needed, the Trinamool Congress...
10:29 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Chief Justice SH Kapadia has expressed fears that politicians can trample upon the independence of the judiciary? ...
09:45 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday hit back at the jurists and lawyers who had filed the contempt petition. Mamata said she is happy that the judiciary is against her. Clarifying her stand, the fiery leader said, "I did say that corruption in electoral politics needs to come down. There are some good, some bad judges." "There is a need for judicial and...
04:59 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance of the allegation against West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee that she made a statement against the judiciary accusing it of giving judgement after taking money. The High Court accepted the contempt petition against Mamata and directed advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya to show on what basis he has made the petition. Media houses have also...
03:12 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the Chief Justice of India cautioned the government against tinkering with the independence of judiciary, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said judicial freedom was paramount and a proposed law on judicial accountability will not undermine it. He said after Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia made the remarks on Thursday, "I had also said in my intervention that it is not accountability to undermine...
02:26 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Kolkata: Lawyer Subrata Mukherjee, who was to file a contempt petition against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been asked to file a PIL first. The court refused to take suo motu cognizance of his petition. "I am hurt by the comments made by a constitutional authority of a state. How can one cast aspersion on judiciary one of the pillars of our democracy," Subrata Mukherjee had said. However,...
12:09 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Bangalore: Former Supreme Court Judge Santosh Hegde on Wednesday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her corruption in the judiciary remarks, saying it was 'unbecoming' of her to level such charges. "It is not right to make unsubstantiated allegations by one constitutional authority over another. It is unbecoming of a Chief Minister to hurl such allegations," he told PTI in Bangalore. Instead of hurling allegations against the judiciary,...
03:58 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was at her vitriolic best while accusing the judiciary directly of corruption. But this time she may have gone a bit too far. "These days judgements can be bought in lieu of money," said Mamata. The legal eagles are vocal in protest. Soli Sorabjee said, "You can't make such baseless, scandalous allegations." Mamata's earned no sympathy from the political...
09:32 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday came under attack from political parties and eminent lawyers for alleging there were instances when court judgements have been delivered for money. While the BJP said the questions raised against the judiciary by the Chief Minister was not right, the CPI(M) described her statement as a "tactic" to put pressure on the Constitutional authority. "It is unbecoming of a Chief Minister...
07:11 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has courted trouble over corruption in judiciary remark. A Kolkata-based lawyer has said that he will file a contempt plea against her in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The lawyer is expected to ask court to take suo moto cognizance of the comments and ask her to clarify her statement. Earlier, Mamata had said that sometimes court verdicts are purchased. "At times...
03:04 PM, Aug 15, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Justice SH Kapadia on Wednesday warned the government not to tinker with judicial independence while enacting laws to make the judiciary accountable. "Sometimes in our anxiety to do justice we give an interpretation which may disturb constitutional balance between three branches of the government," he said. "Judicial accountability should be balanced with judicial independence," Kapadia said in his address at a function organised by the Supreme Court...
01:15 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has hit out at the judiciary, saying some times court verdicts are purchased. "At times favourable verdicts are given in return for money. These days, judgments are purchased. There is corruption among a section of the judiciary. I know there can be a defamation suit against me for saying this. But this must be said and I am ready to go to jail...
03:26 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: Actress Sridevi who is making a comeback in showbiz with Gauri Shinde's 'English Vinglish', says she is very confident about her film and is not insecure at all. "I am very confident with this film and not insecure at all. I am very excited about this film," Sridevi told reporters during the launch of film's first look Monday. "I fell in love with the script. It was so real...
12:54 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: Recording of judicial confession of key 26/11 attack handler Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal took place before a magistrate in Mumbai on Sunday. In his confessional statement Jundal is understood to have given a deep insight into Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba terror group's role in the 2008 Mumbai strikes. Thirty-year-old Jundal, who has been confronted with Ajmal Kasab - the lone surviving Lashker terrorist in the Mumbai terror attacks, was...
08:22 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Guwahati: A judicial inquiry will be held to probe the Bodo-minority violence in lower Assam even as CBI has taken up seven cases related to the clashes that have claimed 77 lives so far. "We have decided on a judicial inquiry. This will be done at a much larger scale and cover the entire gamut of issues, including lapses by administration and recommendations for preventing such incidents in future," Assam...
06:28 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: In the men's 74kg freestysle Olympic wrestling competition here at the ExCel arena on Friday, India's Narsingh Pancham Yadav crashed out after losing to his Canadian counterpart in the Round of 16. Narsingh lost his pre-quarter-final contest against Canada's Matthew Judah Gentry who scripted a comfortable 3-1 victory. Gentry took control of the contest, winning the first period 3-0 on technical points, and though the Indian fought better in...
09:22 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: An accused is entitled to free legal aid not only during his trial in a lower court but also during adjudication of his appeals by higher courts, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Madan B Lokur gave the ruling while setting aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court verdict which had upheld the conviction and 10-year jail term given to a...
06:46 PM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Kim Jae-bum of South Korea won the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday in the men's 81-kilogram category. Kim defeated Ole Bischof of Germany in the final. Kim threw Bischof twice and was often on the attack, even when both were locked in grappling techniques on the floor. The 27-year-old Kim won a silver at the Beijing Games and is the current world champion. The bronze medals were won by...
04:36 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka MLA Somashekhara Reddy, brother of mining scam accused Gali Janardhan Reddy, has been arrested in the cash-for-bail scam on Monday. Somashekhara Reddy is the second Karnataka MLA to be arrested in the cash-for-bail scam after Suresh Babu, who was arrested last week. Somashekhar Reddy, who is accused of "playing a key role in bribing" suspended judge T Pattabhirama Rao in granting bail to mining baron Janardhan Reddy,...
05:23 PM, Aug 06, 2012
