Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court will deliver its verdict on June 10 on the admissibility of an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan challenging a magistrate's order invoking the charge of culpable homicide against him in a 2002 hit-and-run case. Sessions judge UB Hejib fixed June 10 for deciding the appeal after arguments concluded on Wednesday. The 47-year-old actor was granted exemption from personal appearance on a plea by...
05:18 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday ruled out any action against Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the coal scam case saying that the Supreme Court, hearing the CBI affidavit, did not name him anywhere during its observations. "There is no need for any action against Ashwani Kumar till a final court order," PMO sources said. The Congress also sought to reject charges that the CBI was under its control. "The...
05:12 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to share details of its investigations into the coal scam with anybody. The apex court said that the CBI Director will be held directly responsible for it. "The report will not be shared with law officers or any minister concerned," the SC said. CBI Director Ranjit Sinha told CNN-IBN that the court orders will be...
04:55 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed former CBI DIG Ravi Kanta to resume charge of the coal scam probe. Ravi Kanta was the main investigating officer in the case. However, he had been transferred recently to the Intelligence Bureau. Sources say that Kanta had himself sought deputation to the IB even before the coal scam probe was handed over to him. However, the then CBI chief AP Singh...
04:14 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, while examining the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with coal scam, on Wednesday took a very strong stand and called the investigating agency a "caged parrot speaking in its master's voice". While seeking an undertaking from the government that the CBI would be made independent, the three-judge bench headed by Justice RM Lodha, also added that giving unbridled powers...
02:53 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government to explain as to why no steps were taken to prevent assault on Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Haq inside a Jammu jail. The court, however, did not allow the plea that Sanaullah be repatriated to Pakistan as he has not completed the jail term awarded to him. "The respondents (the Centre and J&K government) shall...
02:22 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to explain why it continued to seize the Uphaar cinema premises in New Delhi. The SC directive came after Ansal Theatres filed an application seeking release of the hall for renovation and reuse. The Uphaar cinema fire tragedy in June 1997 had claimed dozens of lives. ...
10:58 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Special CBI court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case will on Wednesday decide whether the doctor couple, Nupur and Rajesh Talwar's statements can be recorded or not. The dentist couple had asked for a stay on recording their statements until all proceedings in the Supreme Court were over. The court had adjourned hearing on the matter till Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Talwars had approached the Supreme Court...
10:45 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Amidst reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are divided over the decision on the fate of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, the Supreme Court will on Wednesday examine the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with coal scam. In a major embarrassment for the government, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha in an affidavit told the Supreme Court on Monday that...
08:37 AM, May 08, 2013
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions. Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind...
02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Chennai: The first unit of the 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), set up by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), is almost ready for beginning the fission process, said a top official of the country's atomic regulator. "As of now, the test reports and the results submitted by NPCIL relating to the first unit of KNPP are satisfactory. A team of experts will be going to KNPP...
11:25 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI will challenge before Delhi High Court the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by a city court as it has found "strong grounds" which could form basis of its petition. CBI sources said on Tuesday that the agency is likely to wait till the court pronounces its verdict on the quantum of sentence for those found guilty in the case....
02:50 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: The wife of 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday for a stay on the execution of his death sentence. The Supreme Court says that she will have to approach the same bench that delivered the verdict. The Supreme Court had earlier this month rejected the mercy petition of Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on...
12:44 PM, May 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: A PIL has been filed in Gujarat High Court seeking investigation in connection with water theft in Porbandar. The petitioners Meldabhai Ranavaya and two others from Porbandar have claimed "people who are distant relatives and workers of state Agriculture Minister and BJP MLA from Porbandar Babu Bokhiria have resorted to illegal trading of water from the public water distribution pipelines and selling it at a higher price". The petitioner...
01:45 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...
11:41 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was on the backfoot on Monday after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed its second affidavit on the coal scam probe in the Supreme Court, stating that Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, Attorney General GE Vahanvati and officials from the PMO and the Coal Ministry had seen the report and suggested changes to it. The revelations came as huge embarrassment to the...
09:19 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Monday told the BJP not to "lecture" the Congress on corruption and said Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar would not resign. "There is no question of their resignation. Did Nitin Gadkari resign as president of the BJP? The BJP should not give us lectures on such matters. Our government knows what is to be done and if...
07:59 PM, May 06, 2013
The CBI on Monday in its second affidavit to the Supreme Court accepted that certain changes were made in its draft status report on the coal probe by the Union Law Minister, the Attorney General and senior bureaucrats. ...
07:03 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and said government should now crackdown on any further agitation which disrupts the schedule of its completion. He said that from the very beginning he had termed the agitation against implementation of KNPP as "anti-national". "I welcome the long overdue judgement of the Supreme Court on the validity and importance for...
06:05 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The troubles are mounting for the UPA as the Opposition turns up the heat on two of its ministers, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, demanding that they be sacked over the coal blocks allocation scam probe case and the Railway Board bribery case respectively. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj threatened that Parliament will be allowed to function until the two...
04:40 PM, May 06, 2013
