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
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
Bhubaneshwar: A follow-up to an IBN Cobrapost investigations into the Orissa land scandal showed how Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land meant for the disadvantaged and war widows, to judges, who already own property. Land that was meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs was allotted to judges who owned not one but two and sometimes, even more, properties. The investigations show how...
07:18 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A Cobrapost-IBN Network investigation had in November 2011 revealed how judges, IPS officers and bureaucrats from Orissa received plots, meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs, through the discretionary quota of ministers. A follow up to that investigation has now shown how it is not just judges, but their children as well who have benefited from the quota. Orissa is seeing a real estate...
08:58 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday will be taking up another much-anticipated piece of legislation, the Judicial Accountability Bill. The bill seeks to set standards for judges and a credible mechanism to investigate into complaints of misbehaviour and incapacity of a judge of the Supreme Court or High Court. It also proposes to form a panel to incorporate a provision to have in-camera proceedings of the committee which will...
06:11 AM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: The much-talked about Judicial Accountability Bill that will provide for accountability of judges and establish a credible mechanism for investigating individual complaints of misbehaviour will be taken up by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pawan Kumar Bansal said the Lok Sabha will take up the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, and also the Bill providing for increasing the retirement age of High Court judges...
09:45 PM, Dec 27, 2011
The Cabinet cleared Citizen's Charter, Judicial Accountability and Whistleblower's Bills in a key meet on Tuesday. ...
11:17 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Odishas law and rural dev minister Bikram Keshari Arukha has finally responded to the IBN"Cobrapost expose and said that he will return one of the two houses that he had availed from the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA). However, the minister declined to resign from his post due to the allegation of false affidavit made by him to get the housing plots. Arukha said, "I have made no false affidavit....
03:09 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday promised a probe after a Cobrapost-IBN investigation showed how bureaucrats and judges were allotted flats under his ministers' discretionary quota. This came hours after former Orissa urban development minister K V Singhdeo said that he was ready to face probe in the land allotment controversy. An investigation by Cobrapost and IBN Network had revealed how former and sitting judges of Orissa, police...
07:23 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Judges and bureaucrats in Orissa use ministers' discretionary quota to get flats. Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition. ...
11:41 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: An investigation by Cobrapost and IBN Network has revealed how former and sitting judges of Orissa, police officers and bureaucrats have received flats from the discretionary quota of ministers. As a matter of fact, successive Urban Development Ministers in the Naveen Patnaik government have misused the discretionary housing quota. According to the revelation, the judges have got the 'minister quota' flats out of turn and at cheaper rates....
08:06 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: A Standing Committee report on the Judicial Accountability Bill was presented in Parliament on Tuesday. According to the Bill, judges should restrain from making unwarranted comments against constitution statutory body while hearing cases. The judgement is regarding the need to change behaviour of judges within the purview of judicial standards. According to the bill, declaration of assets should be made a statutory responsibility of judges. Mechanism to ensure...
07:33 AM, Aug 30, 2011
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