Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf fled from the Islamabad High Court after the court cancelled his bail and directed police to immediately arrest him. Musharraf had appeared in the court this morning to seek extension of his interim bail in a case related to the sacking of over 60 judges during the 2007 emergency. Though his spokesperson Reza Bukhari has denied this and said Musharraf didn't flee from the court. ...
08:15 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Thursday granted two days temporary bail to Babu Bajrangi, sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, as his wife is undergoing a surgery. A division bench of Justices MR Shah and SH Vora allowed Bajrangi's plea, filed and argued by his son Viren Babubhai Patel. He would be out of jail on April 20 and 21. A trial court in 2012...
07:04 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Islamabad: A police team has reached the residence of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the outskirts of Islamabad to arrest him after he fled from the Islamabad High Court following a court order to arrest him. Musharraf fled from the court premises with the help of his bodyguards after the court ordered his arrest in a case related to the confinement of over 60 judges in 2007 when he...
04:59 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: In what could result in another stand-off between the government and the judiciary, the UPA cabinet is likely to take up proposals for a revamp in the way judges are appointed. The Law Ministry wants judges to be appointed by a Judicial Appointments Commission, which includes members of the executive. The Law Ministry says judges cannot be allowed to decided their own appointments. Currently, a collegium of judges...
09:34 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Indore: Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and party MP Prem Chand Guddu in connection with a case filed against them and others for allegedly thrashing BJP youth wing workers in Ujjain in 2011. Justice PK Jaiswal, who on Tuesday heard arguments on separate applications filed by the two and reserved his judgement, granted pre-arrest bail on Wednesday,...
02:50 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on appeals of three convicts against a trial court verdict awarding them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002. A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR Midha reserved the judgment after all the parties concluded their arguments in the appeals whose hearing started April 16, 2012. The court was hearing appeals of convicts...
04:53 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala was the "main conspirator" in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers' recruitment scam of 2000. Opposing the bail plea of Chautala, jailed for 10 years in the scam, Solicitor General (SG) Mohan Parasaran, who argued for CBI, submitted before Justice Mukta Gupta that Chautala was "the main conspirator and others (accused)...
09:53 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to extend time for surrender for Zaibunissa Kazi and two others convicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. The apex court directed them to surrender by April 18. Zaibunissa had argued that her punishment should be kept in abeyance until the Maharashtra governor or the President of India decides on pardon. 71-year-old Zaibunissa's sentence of five years by the Bombay High court...
11:49 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Cuttack: Odisha High Court on Monday asked Assembly Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat to file a counter affidavit within seven days in response to a contempt petition filed against him by the state NCP president Utkal Ranjan Parida. A Division Bench of Justices Indrajit Mahanti and BN Mohapatra after taking up the contempt petition against the Speaker earlier this month had asked the government counsel to get instructions from the Speaker...
02:02 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A petition has been filed by a journalist in Bombay High Court alleging gross abuse of position by the Chairman of Press Council of India Markandey Katju and pleaded that the relevant law be amended to allow removal of a PCI chief. The Ministry of Law and Justice, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Union Government and Press Council of India through its Secretary have been made respondents in the...
09:53 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Allahabad: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh is no longer a district. The Allahabad High Court on Monday struck down the district status of Amethi. Amethi, which was named as Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government and later renamed as Amethi by the Samajwadi Party government, was carved out of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts of northern Uttar Pradesh. Suggesting growing...
01:39 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Kottayam: The Suryanelli girl goes to the office in the morning with her long, wavy hair neatly combed, tiny gold earrings glinting, packed lunch in hand, like a normal working woman in India. But once she leaves her front gate, she holds her body tight, with shoulders hunched and arms wrapped around her, and looks down. If she makes eye contact, a stranger at the bus stop might recognize her...
09:18 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Chennai: The National Green Tribunal on Friday said a four-member committee would be set up to study the current status of the controversial copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin. The committee, comprising two members from the Tribunal and one each from Sterlite Industries and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), would submit its report on April 29 on the functioning of the plant, said the bench of Justice...
05:38 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani court extended the pre-arrest bail of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf by six days during proceedings conducted amid tight security on Friday. Musharraf, 69, had applied to the Islamabad High Court for the extension of his bail in a case registered against him for placing dozens of judges under house arrest after imposing emergency rule in late 2007. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui extended the pre-arrest bail till...
02:02 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Lucknow: A division bench of the Lucknow High Court will hear the Sahara-Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) case on Friday. Subrata Roy led Sahara India had filed a writ petition seeking to quash the market regulator's February 13 order. The court had directed Sebi to file a counter affidavit. It had also advised Sebi to seek clatification on whether the Supreme Court judgement in this case relates only to...
09:01 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on Friday hear former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan's plea in connection with the Adarsh Housing Society case. Chavan had sought quashing of the FIR lodged against him in the case arguing that he was falsely implicated by political rivals. At the last hearing on April 1, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had opposed Chavan's petition. The Congress leader's plea also claimed that...
08:31 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit asking why her government had made enrollment of Aadhar card mandatory. The notice was issued in response to a writ petition seeking Aadhar be made "additional" ID proof and not as the sole proof. The Delhi government had earlier this year made the Aadhar card compulsory for accessing various services provided by Delhi government...
11:35 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal panchayat polls case will come for for hearing in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. The State Election Commission and the West Bengal government are at loggerheads. Mamata Banerjee's government has proposed May 5 and May 8 as the new dates for panchayat polls but the EC wants to conduct polls in 3 phases. The state government moved an application before the court of Justice Biswanath...
08:37 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has upheld the decision of a power distribution company categorising telephone exchanges of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) as 'commercial consumer' for the purpose of charging tariff. MTNL had filed a petition challenging the decision of Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) to change its category from 'industrial consumer' to 'commercial consumer'. BEST contended that the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity had recently held that...
11:35 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday raised the demand for a separate High Court for the state to strengthen the judicial system. Hooda was addressing a conference of Chief Ministers of states and Chief Justices of the High Courts, held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Sunday. The conference was presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir...
03:40 AM, Apr 08, 2013
