
Bangalore: Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi on June 4 moved to the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and also to review the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing on June 5 before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao on June 2 has convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo...

02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012

Hyderabad: A CBI team led by joint director VV Lakshminarayana knocked on the door of first additional CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao's Banjara Hills residence last month, and asked for the keys to his bank lockers. Taken aback, the judge allegedly sputtered, "Keys? What keys? What are you talking about?" The judge has been accused of accepting Rs 2 crore from aides of Gali Janardhan Reddy for giving bail to...

12:55 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Hyderabad: A trial court judge in Andhra Pradesh has been implicated in a bribery scandal involving mining baron Janardhan Reddy, who reportedly struck a deal with the former for bail. Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao now faces arrest after the Andhra Pradesh High Court gave sanction to the CBI to prosecute him. Sources say that the CBI got information that a deal worth Rs 6 crore had been struck between Reddy...

08:36 AM, Jun 02, 2012

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11:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday granted permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases T Pattabhirama Rao. He was suspended on Thursday by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice for alleged irregularities. The CBI is expected to register a case soon. The CBI has claimed that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between former Karnataka minister Gali...

08:41 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice has suspended Special CBI Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao for alleged irregularities. Pattabhi Rama Rao was hearing the Obulapuram mining scam case. He had granted bail to prime accused Gali Janardhana Reddy on May 11 in the case. Reddy, however, is still in jail in another case. Judge Rao was also hearing the EMAAR case and heard the petition for defreezing YSR Congress chief Jagan...

09:34 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Three judges from the Saket court were attacked by two men on a motorbike following an accident on Thursday evening. ...

02:24 PM, May 18, 2012

New Delhi: Three judges from the Saket court in Delhi were allegedly attacked by two men on a motorcycle following an accident. In fact, the motorcyclists threw bricks on the car when they were asked to drive safely. Both have now been arrested. It's one of the most shocking cases of road rage on Delhi's roads. Additional CP Ajay Choudhary said, "It's a clear case of road rage because the...

08:02 AM, May 18, 2012

New Delhi: In a suspected case of road rage, three judges and the driver of the car they were travelling in were attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in south Delhi on Thursday evening. This is the second incident of attacks on judges in the national capital in the past four days. One of the judges, Ajay Garg, suffered head injuries while two of his colleagues Additional Sessions Judges Inderjit Singh and...

10:45 PM, May 17, 2012

Kolkata: Criticising the delay in delivering justice, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari on Saturday said the poor people suffered the most due to delayed justice. "It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the burnt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes," said Ansari while addressing a function to celebrate 150 years of the Calcutta High Court. Ansari...

01:21 AM, Apr 22, 2012

Yavatmal: The Wadgaon Road Police in the district, who have filed a criminal case for rape against a sitting judge of the District Labour Court, on Thursday sent a report to the High Court and the Maharashtra government. Police officer in-charge Sarjerao Gaikwad said a preliminary report was sent to the Bombay High Court and the government. Judge Atik Mohammad Khan allegedly had an intimate relationship with his maid servant,...

08:41 PM, Apr 19, 2012

New Delhi: A judge who makes oral comments against another constitutional authority or individuals, would be liable for "judicial misconduct" under a Bill passed in Lok Sabha on Thursday dealing with complaints against Supreme Court and High Court judges. The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010, which was introduced in December, 2010 was brought to the Lower House with fresh amendments in December last year, including one which seeks to...

08:30 PM, Mar 29, 2012

SC's rejection of the plea to review Vodafone judgement has made the announcement to amend the I-T act even more controversial. ...

09:35 PM, Mar 21, 2012

New Delhi: DMK MP Kanimozhi, facing trial for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation case, was on Monday allowed by a Delhi court to participate in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament. Special CBI Judge OP Saini allowed Kanimozhi's plea to attend the session after the CBI did not oppose it. The court permitted her subject to the condition that her counsel should "actually participate" in the judicial...

06:04 PM, Mar 12, 2012

Phulbani: A Fast Track court here has acquitted 31 persons who had been accused of being involved in communal violence in Odisha's Kandhamal district in August 2008. Additional Sessions Judge of Fast Track court-2, BN Mishra while pronouncing judgement in an arson and rioting case, acquitted the 31 accused on Wednesday due to lack of proper evidence. It had been alleged by the prosecution that the accused persons had set...

03:20 PM, Feb 23, 2012