Source – indiatoday.intoday.in The Supreme Court said on Friday that Kashmiri students should stop throwing stones at security forces and “return to colleges and schools”, in its first-ever intervention in bringing peace to the violence-racked Valley. “Education is empowerment, and only education will deliver them from widespread unemployment and anger spilling out on the streets,”
Source – financialexpress.com Three years after the Lokpal Act came into effect, the Centre is yet to set up the office of the ombudsman and enforce the law. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of India told Modi government at the Centre that there was “no justification” to keep the enforcement of the Lokpal Act 2013
Sorce – indiatimes.com ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court has transferred close to 400 judicial officers, nearly half of them of the additional district and sessions judge rank, in a major reshuffle in the lower judiciary in Uttar Pradesh. According to the notifications issued on Friday by the high court’s registrar general Dinesh Kumar Singh, the
Source – au.news.yahoo.com The landmark case, which is due to begin in Canberra on Tuesday, stems from Dr Brown’s arrest while filming a video about an anti-logging protest at Lapoinya State Forest in Tasmania’s northwest in January 2016. While police have dropped criminal charges against Dr Brown, he wants the High Court to overturn Tasmanian
Source – timesnow.tv New Delhi: Amid the ongoing railway bribery case involving former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew, the Delhi High Court upheld the verdict of a trial court allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to place on record two CDs containing supposed telephonic conversations intercepted during its investigation. Prime accused in the
Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI: Tractors and construction equipment vehicles have become collateral damage of the ban on BS-III vehicles imposed by the Supreme Court, with RTOs in many states turning down their registrations for being ‘four-wheeler’ although these have different emission norms. An estimated 25,000 tractors and over 1,500 units of construction equipment vehicles
Source – intoday.in The Supreme Court today ordered the medical examination of Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan in a contempt case for accusing 20 current and former judges of higher judiciary of corruption. The apex court has directed Calcutta government hospital to constitute a board for medical examination of Karnan. SC has also directed
Source – indianexpress.com Noting that a woman who filed a false criminal complaint against her husband, which led him to being jailed for seven days, would constitute a clear case of cruelty by the wife against her husband, the Bombay High Court upheld the divorce granted to the husband on grounds of cruelty. The High
Source – sify.com Last week was very painful. Death of 25 CRPF personnel in a Maoist ambush at Sukma was soon followed by the martyrdom of three soldiers in a terrorist attack at Pulwama. Heart-rending TV clips of wailing widows and orphaned children were highly disconcerting. Far too many lives are being lost. Continued inadequacy of
Source – legallyindia.com The ongoing challenge in the Supreme Court regarding the linking of Aadhaar for filing of income tax returns, and making it mandatory for PAN, has reached Day 5 when the Union of India continued its arguments. We have been updating details from court proceedings from day 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well.
