Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Interior Minister Rehman Malik a day to submit documents to back his claim that he had renounced his British nationality. A three-Judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order while hearing a petition challenging the dual nationality of some members of the two Houses of Parliament. The apex court earlier suspended the membership of parliament of Farahnaz Ispahani, the media...
10:47 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre was on Wednesday directed by the Delhi High Court to consider in three months a plea seeking CBI inquiry against members of Team Anna for allegedly receiving funds from foreign organisations to run their agitation for Lokpal Bill. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A S Chandhiok to treat the PIL as a...
05:16 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: General VK Singh, who took over the reins of the army 26 months ago with an image of an anti-corruption crusader, will retire as Army Chief on May 31 bringing to an end a controversial tenure that was marred by rows over his age and fissures among the military brass. 62-year-old Singh, who will hang up his boots after 42 years of service, will be succeeded by Eastern...
01:57 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External Affairs regarding the mysterious disappearance of an Indian techie working in Saudi Arabia. Fasih Mehmood was allegedly picked up by the members of the National Investigative Agency on May 13 and has been missing since then. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar issued notice to the Home...
11:23 AM, May 30, 2012
The brother of the Pakistani doctor who has been jailed for helping the US trace Osama Bin Laden, claims he is being made a scapegoat and now wants Pakistan's apex court to intervene. ...
06:58 PM, May 29, 2012
Kochi: Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by the Italian Government seeking quashing of the FIR against two of its marines, who allegedly shot dead two Indian fishermen off the state coast in February and slapped a cost of Rs one lakh on it. Dismissing the petition, Justice PS Gopinathan said Kerala Police has the jurisdiction to register the case since the incident occurred in the territorial waters...
05:24 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari on Tuesday will have to give his blood sample in Dehradun on the Supreme Court's orders to determine a paternity lawsuit. The deadline set by the court ends on Monday. The question is will Tiwari voluntarily give his sample or will force have to be used? Petitioner Rohit Shekhar and his mother will be at Tiwari's residence when the sample will be taken...
06:14 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: More than 17 years after being caught demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 100 from a patient at a government hospital, the Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of two employees under Prevention of Corruption Act. But since the incident was nearly two-decades-old and the duo - Mukut Bihari and Kalyan Mal - had undergone considerable trauma during the protracted litigation, the court reduced the punishment to...
08:47 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Even if a woman is of easy virtue, she cannot be subjected to rape, the Supreme Court has held, saying courts have a duty to determine whether the offence has been committed or not. "Even in cases where there is some material to show that the victim was habituated to sexual intercourse, no inference of the victim being a woman of 'easy virtue' or a woman of 'loose...
09:09 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari on Thursday failed to get any relief in the paternity suit filed against him, as the Supreme Court asked him to give his blood sample by May 29 for DNA test. The Supreme Court said that the District Judge of Dehradun, accompanied with a civil surgeon and a pathologist, will go to Tiwaris residence to collect the blood sample. According to the...
04:25 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea against being forced to give his blood sample to determine a paternity lawsuit. Tiwari has challenged a Delhi High court order that instructs the registrar to allow the use of police help to obtaining his blood sample in the paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for...
06:57 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Rapists should be awarded a minimum sentence of 7 years which can be reduced only in special circumstances, the Supreme Court has ruled ticking off the Rajasthan High Court for reducing the punishment of two convicts in a rape case. "Such an order is violative of the mandatory requirement of law and has defeated the legislative mandate. Deciding the case in such a casual manner reduces the criminal...
07:28 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding Italy's unhappiness over the "unacceptable nature of the judicial developments" involving two of its marines, India on Tuesday made it clear that it will not "interfere" in the trial of two Italians facing murder charges in Kerala. "The judicial process is on and the Government of India is never known to interfere in tha process," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said when asked about framing of murder...
06:07 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said a deaf-mute need not be prevented from giving evidence in court merely on account of his physical disability as he can do so either by writing or through gestures. The court said this while upholding the Rajasthan High Court's verdict of May 29, 2005 by which it had quashed the conviction of murder accused Darshan Singh. The apex court bench of Justice...
01:21 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: A number of Internet service providers had blocked access to popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo and DailyMotion as well as major torrent search services including The Piratebay and isoHunt apparantly following a court order obtained by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based online anti piracy service provider. According to Copyright Labs, ISPs were asked to block specific websites but in a repeat of earlier instances they ended up...
07:08 PM, May 17, 2012
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