New Delhi: The government says IOC, HPCL and BPCL will lose Rs 43,000 crore selling subsidised LPG cylinders and so the government is now looking to cap LPG cylinders per family at six. But the data of the LPG transparency portal reveals how India's ministers and MPs are misusing LPG subsidies.
Petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy may regret launching the brand new transparent LPG portal. The idea behind the portal is to remove pilferage and educate consumers on just how much subsidy they avail. But the data of just one gas distributor in Delhi is enough to embarrass the ministers, MPs and corporate India's who's who. The data reveals the ugly truth of the real beneficiaries of government subsidies.
As per data on the transparency portal:
- Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has a whopping 91 cylinders to her name costing the government Rs 31,318 in the past one year....
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07:55 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: To tackle overcrowding in prisons across the country, the National Human Rights Commission has suggested holding of night courts in jails for trial of petty offences. NHRC Chairperson KG Balakrishnan said various strategies could be employed to bring down the prison population like ensuring that police does not make any arrest indiscriminately and also providing legal aid to the poor. He said the number of undertrial prisoners is...
09:40 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to take note of the allegations against former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan in the Disproportionate Assets case. The court said that the competent authority at the Centre should look into the allegations and decide accordingly, since there was a laid down procedure to remove a sitting NHRC chief. The Supreme Court's order came on a petition that alleged that...
11:14 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: An NGO, seeking removal of former CJI KG Balakrishnan as the NHRC chairman for his alleged misconduct, on Monday told the Supreme Court that a key document of the Centre on probe into disproportionate assets against him and his kins has gone "missing" from the apex court files. This was told to a bench of justices BS Chauhan and JS Khehar by advocate Prashant Bhushan, the counsel for...
08:43 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to apprise it on the action taken against former Chief Justice and NHRC chief KG Balakrishnan in the disproportionate assets case against him. The court has asked the government to reply by March 12 on the actions that it has taken or intends to take against the former CJI. "We want to know what was done on the representation (before the...
11:54 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Thrissur: Troubles continued for former CJI KG Balakrishnan, who is now NHRC Chairman, with the survey department concluding that his son-in-law and advocate PV Sreenijan had allegedly encroached government land. Following a complaint by president of Malayalavedi State Committee George Vattukulam to the Mukundapuram Tahasildar and the Executive Engineer (Irrigation) in February last, the officials of the survey department had surveyed the land under dispute recently and confirmed that it...
03:37 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Vigilance Department has provided some relief to former Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan's son-in-law PV Sreenijin, who was facing charges of disproportionate assets. Five months after an enquiry was ordered, the Kerala Vigilance Department has written to the government recommending closure of corruption case against former CJI, KG Balakrishnan's son-in-law. The Vigilance Department, probing the corruption allegations against PV Sreenijin, has said no complaint received links him to...
08:19 PM, Jun 29, 2011
Karan Thapar: With the Lokpal issue continuing to dominate the news, we present the views of one India's greatest jurists and a long time advocate in judicial accountability former chief justice of India Jagdish Sharan Verma. Justice Verma, let me start with the obvious question. As a former chief justice of India, should the higher judiciary be brought under the ambit of the Lokpal or would that be a mistake?...
02:36 PM, Jun 26, 2011
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11:50 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan is in trouble after the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) decided to investigate charges of financial misconduct by him. If financial misconduct is proven then the matter will be forwarded to the President for sanction to prosecute Balakrishnan, who is currently the Chairman of National Human Rights Commission. The CBDT decided to investigate Balakrishnan's assets was after senior lawyer Prashant ...
06:04 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan is in trouble after the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) decided to investigate charges of financial misconduct by him. If financial misconduct is proven then the matter will be forwarded to the President for sanction to prosecute Balakrishnan, who is currently the Chairman of National Human Rights Commission. The CBDT decided to investigate Balakrishnan's assets was after senior lawyer Prashant...
06:04 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission today said it will send a team for conducting an on-the-spot inquiry into alleged police firing and killing of four persons in Forbesganj in Bihar on June 3. The rights panel has asked its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team to the area in Araria district of the state. Four persons, including a woman and a baby, were killed in police firing...
06:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the shocking revelation by a fellow judge that former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan could be approached for fixing cases, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chief refused to step down, saying that he has not done anything wrong. Balakrishnan has hit back, accusing Justice Shamshuddin of being approachable. While the opposition demands an investigation, the Centre continues to distance itself from the controversy. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the shocking revelation by a fellow judge that former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan could be approached for fixing cases, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chief refused to step down, saying that he has not done anything wrong. Balakrishnan has hit back, accusing Justice Shamshuddin of being approachable. While the opposition demands an investigation, the Centre continues to distance itself from the controversy....
09:59 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Left's D Raja said that the allegation by Justice Shamsuddin must be verified. ...
10:20 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: The government has distanced itself from the controversial former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said that a case has to be filed against the former CJI for the government to act. "There is a rule of law, there is a procedure and that procedure needs to be followed. Someone has to file a prosecution, and then procedure will be followed....
08:10 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan - who at present is the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) - has reacted to the charges made against him by justice Shamsuddin calling them baseless. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Balakrishnan said that since it was justice Shamsuddin who was approached, he is one who should be probed. "What he is saying is that somebody approached him to intorduce...
07:46 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: In a startling charge against controversial former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan, a retired Kerala High Court Justice has said that the present NHRC chief Balakrishnan was 'approachable' to fix judgements. In an interview to CNN-IBN and First Post, Justice Shamsuddin made these allegations saying he was asked by a person to 'approach' KG Balakrishnan's son and Son-in-law in connection with a case in the Supreme Court....
07:39 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: Controversial former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan is "approachable" revealed a fellow judge. Justice PK Shamsuddin says he was approached to reach Balakrishnan's son or son-in-law in connection with a case. Retired Kerala High Court Justice Shamsuddin has come out to expose these allegations in detail against the former CJI. He said he was asked by a person to 'approach' KGB's Son and son-in-law in connection with...
08:05 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Geneva: The accreditation of India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to come up for renewal before the United Nations (UN) on Monday. The UN meeting in being held in Geneva to look at functioning of human rights commissions across the world. The UN will also examine the corruption charges made against NHRC Chairman and former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan. Different civil society groups have sent these complaints against...
10:49 AM, May 23, 2011
