Category: LEGAL NEWS

The sanction required to prosecute former Union Minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis case has been obtained from the authorities concerned, the CBI told a court here on Monday.The court, which further extended the protection from arrest to Chidambaram and his son Karti till December 18, also granted three weeks to the agency to get sanction against some other people who are accused in the case. Special Judge O P Saini posted the next date of hearing on December 18.There are 18 accused in the case. Besides Chidambaram, sanction is…

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The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a divorcee woman by expunging the imputations made on her character by her late estranged husband to ensure that she leads her “rest of her life with a sense of dignity and pride”. The top court, however, refused to interfere with the findings of the Delhi High Court and trial court which had dissolved her marriage with her estranged husband on the ground of cruelty.A bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and Hemant Gupta noted that her estranged husband is no more…

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A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded Rs 3.07 crore as compensation to families of three men who died in a road accident while travelling from Noida to Kotdwar in Uttarakhand.MACT Presiding Officer M K Nagpal awarded Rs 3,07,27,000 crore in total to the next kin of the three victims who were killed when their car collided with a tractor near Bijnaur in Uttar Pradesh nearly six years ago. The tribunal held that the accident was a result of the “rash and negligent driving of the tractor” and directed…

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The Madras High Court has observed that free PDS rice given to ration card holders should be restricted only to families below the poverty line, noting that doling out freebies to all sections of people have made people “lazy”. While it was obligatory on the part of the government to provide bare necessities like rice and other groceries to the needy and poor people, successive governments had extended such benefits to all people for political benefits, it said.“Consequently, people began to expect everything for free from the government. As a…

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The Supreme Court Tuesday adjourned the hearing on CBI Director Alok Verma’s plea challenging the government’s decision to divest him of his duties, expressing anguish over the alleged leak of his response to a CVC report. The court, while adjourning the hearing to November 29, also expressed displeasure over publication of graft allegations by CBI DIG M K Sinha against senior officers.The top court adjourned the matter twice, soon after the hearing began and again later in the day.Irked over the alleged leak of Verma’s confidential response to the Central Vigilance…

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New Delhi, Nov 18 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre’s stand on a plea alleging that it and the AAP government were not following through on their assurance to the court to ensure there would be no shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, used to treat HIV. Justice Sunil Gaur has asked the Ministry of Health to file a status report in response to the petition seeking contempt proceedings against the Centre, Delhi government and the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) for “willful disobedience” of the assurance…

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Pune, Nov 18 (DIN NEWS) Telugu poet Varavara Rao, accused of having Maoist links, was Sunday remanded in police custody till November 26. Rao was taken into custody in Hyderabad on Saturday after his house arrest ended on November 15 and his petition to quash the transit remand was disposed of by a court there on November 16. He was brought to Pune on Sunday morning and was produced before District and Sessions judge Kishor D Vadane, who remanded him in police custody till November 26. District government pleader Ujjwala…

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Dehradun, Nov 16 (DIN NEWS) A local court granted bail to the CEO and editor-in-chief of Samachar Plus on Friday, 19 days after he was arrested for mounting undue pressure on a subordinate to conduct a sting operation on Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and a senior bureaucrat considered close to him. Samachar Plus CEO Umesh Kumar Sharma has been granted bail by the district and sessions court, Rajpur police station incharge Umesh Kumar said. The private news channel head was arrested from his Indirapuram residence in Ghaziabad on…

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New Delhi, Nov 16 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court Friday adjourned to December 3 the hearing on the Maharashtra government’s plea challenging the Bombay High Court order by which the extension of time granted to the state police to conclude probe in the Bhima Koregaon violence case was set aside. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph deferred the matter to enable the counsel for the Maharashtra government to file a rejoinder affidavit in the case. The apex court on October…

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The Supreme Court Wednesday said a discussion on the pricing of Rafale fighter jets can only take place if the facts of the deal are allowed to come into the public domain. The apex court, which began its hearing on pleas seeking a court-monitored probe into the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France, also said it was dealing with the requirements of the Air Force and would like to hear from an Air Force officer and “not the official of the Defence Ministry”. “The decision we need to…

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