Kochi: The Kerala High court in an observation on price rise on Friday said that the people of the country should react against the frequent price rise by the government. The high court observed that price rise is equivalent to slow death and that people should come to the fore rather than waiting for political parties to do so. "Price rise is equivalent to slow death. People of the country...
05:13 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed a lower court order directing investigation into the role of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the 1992 palmolein import case. Chandy was finance minister in the K Karunakaran Cabinet when the deal was inked. The interim order was issued by Justice K T Sankaran on a petition filed by senior IAS officer Jiji Thomson, who is the fifth accused in the case,...
04:57 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: A division bench of Kerala High Court on Thursday set aside the verdict of single-judge bench of the same court asking Air India to pay over Rs 75 lakh compensation to families of each of 158 victims of May 2010 Mangalore air crash. Air India on August 12 filed an appeal before the division bench challenging the the July 20 order holding Air India's 'no fault liability' at...
03:28 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: The cash-strapped Air India (AI) does not want to pay compensation of Rs 75 lakh to victims of the 2010 Mangalore Air India crash. Air India on Friday appealed against the High Court order despite earlier assurances that there will be no delay in paying compensation. Air India filed an appeal in the division bench of the Kerala High Court after a single bench of the same court...
06:32 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that the victims of May 2010 Mangalore air crash that claimed the lives of 158 people will now be entitled to an interim compensation of Rs 75 lakh each. This came on a petition filed by the Mangalore Air Crash Victims Families Association after Air India offered a victim's father Rs 35 lakh as compensation. The association's plea says international norms mandate a...
12:38 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: A curious treasure hunt has Keralites on tenterhooks ever since the stock taking process in the ancient Shri Padmnabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram began a few days ago as per the Supreme Court's directive. The committee members including two former Kerala High Court Judges have to prepare an inventory list of all the valuables inside six different chambers. Representatives of the government and the royal family trust which runs the...
10:22 AM, Jul 02, 2011
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10:13 PM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: Controversial former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan is "approachable" revealed a fellow judge. Justice PK Shamsuddin says he was approached to reach Balakrishnan's son or son-in-law in connection with a case. Retired Kerala High Court Justice Shamsuddin has come out to expose these allegations in detail against the former CJI. He said he was asked by a person to 'approach' KGB's Son and son-in-law in connection with...
08:05 PM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Kerala government and the Sabarimala Shrine Board to stop defrauding devotees by presenting 'Makara Jyothi' as a divine miracle, saying the matter can be raised in the state high court. The apex court bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice KS Panickar Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar Friday dismissed the plea as withdrawn but allowed petitioner, Sanal...
08:02 PM, Feb 26, 2011
Thiruvanathapuram: The Kerala High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the suspicious death of V Saseendran, former company secretary of state run Malabar Cements, who was found dead along with his two young boys on January 24 inside his house at Palakkd. Justice Thomas P Joseph passed the order while allowing the petition filed by Saseendran' wife Tina and his father Velayundhan Master. Court observed that the case...
06:25 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: The ice cream parlour sex scandal is back to haunt the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala just three months before assembly polls. A 1997 controversy of sexual abuse of a minor girl in an ice cream parlour in Calicut involved PK Kunhalikutty, a former minister and a Muslim League leader. Now a sting operation by a local TV channel claims Kunhalikutty bribed two Kerala High Court judges for...
08:30 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Seeking to downplay the debate over 'Makara Jyothi' of Sabarimala temple, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) on Monday said it was known to most believers that it was a man lit-fire, but there was a Hindu belief behind it. "It is known to everybody that Makara Jyothi is a fire lit up by men at Ponnabalamedu and TDB also recognises this',TDB President M Rajagoplan Nair said. However, he said the...
06:26 PM, Jan 31, 2011
Kochi: Kerala HIgh court on Monday directed the head of the Special Team of forest department, appointed to provide assistance to the devotees at Uppupara in Pulmedu, to give a detailed report by Feb 11 on the Jan 14 stampede that claimed the lives of 102 pilgrims. A division bench comprising justice Thothathil B Radhakrishnan and justice P S Gopinath directed the forest official to produce documents showing the total...
05:52 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Kerala DGP Jacob Punnose and Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) submitted reports on Sabarimala stampede tragedy that claimed lives of 102 pilgrims in the Kerala high court on Thursday. The police report says that they did their best despite constraints as they did not have permission to make specific policing arrangements because the area falls under a tiger reserve. The police however have admitted that there were not enough...
10:43 AM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Kerala police will on Thursday submit a report on the Sabarimala tragedy that killed 102 people and injured 70 others on January 14. Taking suo motu cognisance of the stampede, the Kerala High court wanted to know from the State government, police and forest department as to what happened that fateful Friday night. The HC wanted to know if there was proper coordination between the Devasoms which...
07:48 AM, Jan 20, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala High Court on Monday came down heavily on Kerala government its various departments, saying that lack of coordination among them caused the tragic stampede in Idukki district which resulted in the death of over 100 pilgrims and injuries to 50 others. The court ordered for an immediate report on the cause of the stampede, and asked Kerala Police, Travancore Devaswom Board that runs the Sabarimala temple and the...
11:44 AM, Jan 17, 2011
Bangalore: Former Supreme Court Judge Krishna Iyer claims that he was asked by a former judge of the Kerala High Court to not complain against former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan regarding allegations of disproportionate wealth against Balakrishnan's son-in-law PV Srinijin. Justice Krishna has, however, not revealed the name of the judge who approached him allegedly on behalf of Justice Balakrishnan. Eventually, Krishna Iyer did not write to the...
12:17 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Saturday granted conditional bail to an accused in the professor's hand-chopping case, allegedly by suspected activists of the radical Popular Front of India in Kerala. The Additional Sessions court Judge, Ernakulam, V Shircy, granted bail to Anas, the 47th accused, on a bond of Rs 1 lakh and two solvent sureties for the same amount. Anas has been asked to appear before the investigating...
06:06 PM, Nov 06, 2010
Kochi: Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed the bail applications of seven activists of radical outfit Popular Front of India, arrested in connection with the brutal attack on a college lecturer for preparing a question paper with alleged derogatory reference to Prophet Mohammad. The seven accused are Siyad, Sikander, Kamarudeen, Abdul Lateef, Moideen Kutty, Shiyas and Mohammed Ali. Turning down their bail pleas, Justice V Ramkumar said if the objective...
03:13 PM, Sep 08, 2010
