Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf on Friday approached the Islamabad High Court to challenge the rejection of his bail by an anti-terrorism court in a case related to detention of judges during the 2007 emergency in Pakistan. In a petition filed through his counsel Ilyas Siddiqui, Musharraf said that, being a former president, he could not be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the charges levelled against him were bailable.
"The petitioner was supreme commander of the armed forces and was president of Pakistan, and the president cannot be a terrorist," the petition said. It further said that none of the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act were applicable in Musharraf's case. No order or any evidence was available on record to show that Musharraf was the person who had detained the judges or put them under restraints, the petition said.
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12:12 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: India has just 13 judges for every ten lakh people as against 35-40 in other developing nations and 50 in a developed country, a Parliamentary panel has said and urged the government to "make all out efforts" to fill up the existing vacant posts of judges. The Committee on Empowerment of Women in its report on 'Victims of sexual abuse and trafficking and their rehabilitation' noted that India...
11:21 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday did not take up for consideration the much-anticipated proposal to establish a new mechanism giving a say to the government in appointment of judges to the higher judiciary. The Cabinet was expected to take up the proposal that envisages replacing the present collegium system, under which judges alone decide the appointments to the higher judiciary, in its meeting on Thursday but decided to...
10:43 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
New Delhi: The government reportedly wants to have a greater say in the appointment of judges. A Cabinet note circulated by the Law Ministry proposed to scrap the present collegium system by replacing it with a Judicial Appointments Commission headed by the Chief Justice of India with the Law Minister as a representative of the government. The proposed Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) will be a six-member body headed by the...
06:51 PM, Apr 17, 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
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justice of High Court in Delhi on Sunday. The conference will discuss the ways and means to streamline the justice delivery system in the country. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Altamas Kabir will preside over the function. With the establishment of three new High Courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura in March 2013,...
08:27 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Government will shortly bring a legislation for an alternative system for appointment of judges to replace the present mechanism where a collegium of judges has a larger say in such decisions, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said on Monday. Consultations were on with political parties to evolve a consensus, he told the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour. ...
01:08 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Where does the 2G scam case probe stand now? CNN-IBN's national bureau chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction the issue. ...
06:17 PM, Feb 13, 2013
New Delhi: Former Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde condemned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley's comments on the judiciary. "It's unfortunate that a senior leader and lawyer like Arun Jaitley has made such a statement," Hegde said. Arun Jaitley had alleged that judgements at times are influenced by post-retirement jobs. His comments did not go well with Law Minister Salman Khurshid who also hit back at him. "As a...
01:23 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Former Law Minister and member of India Against Corruption Shanti Bhushan has said there's a need for a National Judicial Commission in order to clean up the judiciary and punish corrupt judges. He backed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley saying, "Jaitley is basically right. Although we have many excellent judges in SC and HC who are competent and do not look for post retirement prospects, but there are ...
11:47 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and former law minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said "the clamour for post-retirement jobs among judges is affecting the impartiality of the judiciary". He also pitched for a two-year cooling off period before retired judges are appointed to tribunals and commissions. "...this clamour for post retirement jobs is adversely affecting impartiality of the judiciary of the country and time has come that...
08:22 PM, Sep 30, 2012
New York: Mariah Carey says there's no feud between her and fellow new 'American Idol' judge Nicki Minaj at the moment. Judges Carey, Minaj, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson and host Ryan Seacrest attended a press conference in New York on Monday after auditioning singers for the Fox music reality TV series. Fox announced Sunday that Minaj and Urban would join Carey and Jackson as judges on 'Idol' following Jennifer...
02:07 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New York: The American Idol judges' panel is now complete with the naming of singer-rapper Nicki Minaj and country crooner Keith Urban. The Fox network officially tapped the pair with an announcement Sunday, confirming rumours surrounding them both just hours before the first round of auditions for next season was due to begin in New York. Minaj is getting $12 million for a one-year deal on the hit Fox singing...
12:36 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic called Wimbledon's credibility into question and accused line judges of bias after he was foot-faulted "11 times" in his second-round defeat by Andy Murray on Thursday. The big-serving Croat lost 7-5 6-7 6-2 7-6 to the British fourth seed, but was unhappy with the way officials persistently penalised him for foot-faulting in a tight match on Centre Court. Karlovic said the officials were influenced by the fact...
12:22 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Kochi: Describing Indian judiciary as a very 'valuable' institution, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday stressed the need to strengthen it to combat corruption rather than substituting judges. "... by strengthening the profile and position of Indian judges and not by substituting judges by anyone else can corruption be fought," he said while speaking on 'Building a Corruption free India' as part of the fifth KS Rajamony memorial lecture at...
02:30 AM, Jun 12, 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
