New Delhi: Even as the BJP tried to present a united face at its national executive meeting in Mumbai, one of its senior leaders has written to party president Nitin Gadkari, criticising the party. Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani in his letter to Gadkari saying, "The party (BJP) is sick. I presume you are concerned about the sickness of the party (BJP) which registers no response the the greater sickness...
07:26 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: A person's right to free and fair trial enjoys no primacy over the right to freedom of speech and expression of the media, senior counsel Ram Jethmalani told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Fundamental rights could only be restricted by a legislation passed by parliament and no guidelines by the apex court could shrink them, Jethmalani told the apex court constitution bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice...
04:29 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya also asked eminent jurist Ram Jethmalani to file written submissions on "whether the President should objectively apply mind while deciding mercy petitions". The apex court felt...
05:35 PM, Apr 03, 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: The Congress has reportedly pulled up Law Minister Salman Khurshid for taking on the Election Commission saying it expected its leaders to respect and work within parameters of the Constitution and institutions. Sources told CNN-IBN that the government or the Law Minister was expected to issue a clarification saying that he never meant to show any disrespect to the EC, that he valued the Commission as an institution...
12:30 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Senior lawyer and BJP leader Ram Jethmalani said that the 2G trial court's order was the beginning of trouble for P Chidambaram and not relief. ...
02:29 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the Supreme Court judgement on the 2G spectrum allocation controversy as collective responsibility of the Government and the Union Cabinet, senior lawyer and BJP leader Ram Jethmalani on Thursday said the Government must resign and seek fresh mandate. "The judgement makes it clear that the Government can't remain in power. The Government must resign and order for poll," said Jethmalani. Calling the 2G mess a joint responsibility...
11:37 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Supreme Court lawyer Rani Jethmalani passed away early on Saturday morning. She is the daughter of former Union Law minister and current BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani. Rani died at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital where she was admitted with multiple organ complications. In her 50s, Rani was an eminent social activist. ...
01:24 PM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna on Friday attacked the Government for its failure to get Lokpal Bill passed by Rajya Sabha and accused it of not doing enough home work to bring other political parties on board to respect the 'Sense of the House' on this issue. Key member of the team and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi tore into the Congress, saying the onus was on it to get the...
11:17 AM, Dec 30, 2011
Jethmalani created a flutter in the Rajya Sabha when he made remarks against a former PM having money stashed away in Swiss banks. ...
08:26 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani said he wants that CBI should be totally free from the government. ...
05:56 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Vellore: Senior Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday met the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case at the Central Prison in Vellore. Jethmalani, accompanied by MDMK leader Vaiko, met Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan, whose hanging has been stayed by the Madras High Court on August 30 on a petition seeking to commute their sentence to life term. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Jethmalani, who...
06:58 PM, Nov 12, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Monday alleged that the money in the cash-for-votes scam belonged to the Congress party. Jethmalani, who had on September 12 claimed that the bribe money came from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since LK Advani had said that his party had conducted a sting operation, made a U-turn and blamed Congress leader Ahmed Patel...
02:32 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court will pronounce its decision on former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's bail plea on Tuesday. Noted lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani, who is defending him, argued in court on Monday that the bribe money may have come from the BJP itself. He said that if LK Advani has admitted that he was the one who gave the go ahead with the operations, then it...
01:18 PM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: Despite the ban and the controversies surrounding the movie 'Aarakshan', director Prakash Jha has managed to catch the attention of politicians and many of them are planning to watch Big B in action this weekend. Eminent Lawyer and MP Ram Jethmalani said that he only watches the movies that create controversies and that other movies are not worth watching. "I am an alcoholic supporter of freedom of expression,"...
07:29 AM, Aug 13, 2011
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