Category: Patna High Court

SC asks trial courts to expedite hearing in cases against foreign Tablighi Jamaat members

Source:-https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday asked the trial courts to expedite hearing in the pending cases against foreign Tablighi Jamaat members for alleged visa violations.A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna listed the pleas filed against blacklisting of foreign members of Tablighi Jamaat for attending the Nizamuddin Markaz

Govt receives names of judges for Lokayukta

Source:-https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Panaji: The state government has received the names of retired judges of the Supreme Court and high court to be appointed as the Lokayukta for the state. The post was lying vacant after Lokayukta P K Misra’s term ended on September 17, 2020.Speaking to TOI, advocate general Devidas Pangam said the high court has

Munger firing: Chirag likens Nitish to ‘general Dyer’; Tejashwi seeks probe

Source:-https://www.theweek.in RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and LJP’s Chirag Paswan have lashed out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the police firing in Munger district on Monday, which left one person dead. Speaking to mediapersons after the start of polling in the first phase of elections in Bihar on Wednesday, Tejashwi was quoted by NDTV

Democracy On Test In Bihar

Source:-https://www.mid-day.com the International Society of Political Psychologists in Lisbon, in the summer of 2019, as American scholar Professor Shawn Rosenberg began reading his paper, Democracy Devouring itself: The Rise of the Incompetent Citizen and the Appeal of Right Wing Populism. The excitement soon segued into murmurs of protest as Rosenberg claimed that democracy was devouring

Delay of over two years in uploading Patna HC judgment since its pronouncement, SC asks high court registrar to submit report

Source:-https://www.theleaflet.in Surprised by the inordinate delay of 733 days between the pronouncement of a judgment by the Patna High Court on January 28, 2018, and its uploading on the court website on May 1, 2019, the Supreme Court last week directed the Registrar General of the Patna High Court to submit a report on whether