Tag: Congress

Source- ndtv.com Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was found guilty in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots today and sentenced to jail “for the remainder of his natural life” by the Delhi High Court, which cancelled an earlier court order acquitting him of charges in what the judges called “genocide”. Sajjan Kumar, 73, was convicted in the killing of

Source- ndtv.com The Congress on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of resorting to “malicious and fraudulent jugglery” of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures to hide the “enormous body blow” caused by them to India’s economy. “Failed ‘Modinomics’ plus a ‘pakoda economic vision’ has sunk India’s economy in complete turmoil. A

Source- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court is slated to hear Friday the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case in which CBI earlier this year filed an appeal after a 13-year delay against the Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against all the accused. The matter would come up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan

Source – gulfnews.com On January 12, 2018, all hell broke loose at India’s Supreme Court. Four of the senior-most judges rushed out of court and held a pres conference to revolt against the Chief Justice of India (CJI) — Dipak Misra. Since then, the mutiny has gathered momentum to further sully the reputation of the court,

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The dramatic turn of events through the night over the Karnataka power tussle in the Supreme Court here saw a mad rush of news-hungry scribes during the rare post-midnight hearing which continued till the wee hours today. As the speculations about possible court proceedings at night began around 10 PM last night, mediapersons started

Source – bloombergquint.com In a dramatic turn of events, the Supreme Court of India, at a middle-of-the-night hearing, refused to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party from taking oath on Thursday morning as the new government in Karnataka. Though it did direct the Attorney General of India, KK Venugopal, to produce the letter written by BJP Karnataka

Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court said on Friday that it was “very disturbed” by “unfortunate” public statements made by lawmakers on the issue of impeaching judges. “We are all very disturbed about it,” a bench comprising Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan told the counsel of a petitioner who sought to restrain legislators and gag

Source – hindustantimes.com The BJP and the Congress on Thursday filed separate court petitions seeking deployment of central forces to ensure free and fair rural polls in West Bengal as violence rocked several districts of the Trinamool-ruled state in the run-up to next month’s elections. Trinamool leaders met governor Keshari Nath Tripathi and the state Election