Tag: Congress leader

Supreme Court Suggests Amending Constitution Over Powers Of Speaker To Disqualify MPs, MLAs.

Source – New Delhi: In a path breaking ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said Parliament should “rethink” whether the Speaker of a House should continue to have powers to disqualify lawmakers as such a functionary “belongs to a particular political party”. Parliament may seriously consider amending the Constitution to substitute Speaker of Lok Sabha and

DK Shivakumar: Delhi HC reserves order in bail plea after ED makes last-minute submissions.

Source – barandbench.com After giving a last minute opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to make its submissions in the bail plea filed by Congress leader DK Shivakumar in the money laundering case he has been implicated in, the Delhi High Court reserved its order. A Single Judge Bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait initially proceeded to reserve its

DKS plea against bench order: Karnataka High Cour to decide

Source: deccanchronicle.com Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday said it will pass orders on the maintainability of the appeals filed by senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar and three others, challenging the order of the single-judge bench which has dismissed their plea questioning the ED summons issued against them in a money laundering case. Appearing for

INX media case: Delhi High Court grants Chidambaram protection from arrest till August 7

Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court Wednesday granted interim protection to former Union minister P Chidambaram from arrest in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) money-laundering case related to INX Media. “Till next date of hearing, August 1, no arrest of the petitioner,” Justice A K Pathak said. The court, however, directed the Congress leader to cooperate