The trial has been stayed for eight weeks, after audio tapes of Sankaracharya allegedly trying to bribe the judge in the case surfaced. ...
08:56 AM, Aug 26, 2011
New Delhi: Horoscope is an admissible piece of evidence to prove a person's date of birth though it has low reliability, the Supreme Court has held. A bench of justices Mukundakam Sharma and Anil R Dave passing the judgement, however, said the burden of proving the authenticity of such horoscope would lie "heavily" on the person relying on it. "We reiterate the proposition of law laid down by this court...
01:46 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Madurai: The Madras High Court on Thursday disposed of a petition seeking to restrain police from arresting Union minister MK Alagiri and two of his family members over a land grabbing complaint against their firm after police said there was no FIR against any of them. Disposing of the petition filed by an official of Dhaya Cyber Park, in which Alagiri and his family members are directors, the court directed...
07:56 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday put on hold the release of Prakash Jha's 'Aarakashan' till an amount of Rs 3.71 crore borrowed by the producer is returned to the financiers. The film, produced and directed by Jha, stars Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone and is due for release all over the country on August 12. Judge V Periyakarupiah issued the interim order. A petition filed...
06:23 PM, Aug 08, 2011
Salem: Former Tamil Nadu Minister and senior DMK leader Veerapandi S Arumugam was on Saturday arrested by the city police in connection with a fresh land grabbing case. Arumugam, granted conditional anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court in two land grabbing cases, was arrested by the City Crime Branch (CCB) police when he appeared before it on Saturday morning as per the bail conditions, police said. A strongman of...
10:18 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Chennai: Madras High Court on Monday discharged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa from a case relating to filing of wealth tax returns for 1993-94. Justice PR Shivakumar allowed a revision petition filed by Jayalalithaa against the July 8, 2010, order of the Economic Offences Court-I, dismissing her plea seeking discharge from the case. The case was filed in 1997 on a complaint by the Assistant Commissioner of Wealth Tax,...
09:53 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: The first dalit chief justice of India and now the chairman of National Human Right's commission KG Balakrishnan murmurs of impropriety during his tenure turned to full throated accusations of craft, when he retired from the office in June 2010. After having served as Chief Justice of India for more than three years and first to demand an enquiry against Balakrishan was another former apex court judge from ...
08:30 PM, Jun 16, 2011
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11:32 AM, Jan 13, 2011
Thiruvanathapuram: The going is getting tougher for NHRC chairman and the former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan. The Kerala government has begun a vigilance inquiry against his son-in-law Sreenijin who is alleged to have acquired disproportionate assets when KG Balakrishnan was the Chief Justice. The second jolt came when the Advocate general of Kerala asked KG Balakrishnan's brother, KG Bhaskaran to resign from the post of special government pleader....
10:52 PM, Jan 04, 2011
While SC Judge HL Gokhale accused former CJI KG Balakrishnan of hiding facts on A Raja, ex CJI remained firm on his stance. ...
10:10 PM, Dec 14, 2010
New Delhi: Former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Wednesday denied getting any letter from the Madras High Court judge R Reghupathy on former telecom minister A Raja's reported attempts to influence him in a case. Balakrishnan issued the clarification soon after Reghupathy went public, saying he had written to the then Madras High Court chief justice HL Gokhale asking the letter to be forwarded to the then CJI....
05:16 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New Delhi: Former telecom minister and DMK MP A Raja on Tuesday denied trying to influence a Madras High Court judge in a criminal case. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Raja claimed that he neither spoke to any judge nor he authorised any other person to speak to a judge on his behalf. "You are reading it wrong. Of course my name has been mentioned some where in the judgement I have...
05:36 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Chennai: Former telecom minister and DMK leader A Raja, already under the scanner in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam, has been named by the Madras High Court as the Union minister who tried to influence a judge. According to the High Court order on Tuesday, Raja tried to influence Justice R Raghupathy. A judge of the High Court, Justice Raghupaty wrote a letter in 2009 to the then Chief Justice...
03:05 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Chennai: The Madras High Court has ordered Sterlite Industries, the subsidiary of Vedanta Group, to close its copper smelter plant in Tuticorin in southern Tamil Nadu for violation of environmental laws. The court held that the facility should be closed because of its proximity to an ecologically fragile area and has also faulted Sterlite for not developing a green belt around the plant in southern Tamil Nadu. Sterlite's Tuticorin Unit...
03:55 PM, Sep 29, 2010
With 12,000 pending cases and only three courts to hear them, the High Court has asked to work on holidays too. ...
09:27 AM, Jul 10, 2010
Douglas Devananda was declared a proclaimed offender and an absconder by a Chennai court for murder and rioting. ...
09:54 AM, Jun 14, 2010
A big judicial battle is brewing between CIC and Supreme Court. ...
09:57 PM, Dec 04, 2009
They were defending their court boycott over Dinakaran. ...
05:19 PM, Nov 13, 2009
There are charges of corruption against Chief Justice PD Dinakaran. ...
12:45 PM, Nov 02, 2009
No check on drunken driving in NCR | Bangalore: Drunk drivers a big challenge ... 
