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Supreme Court Allows Interim Bail To Odisha IAS Officer Manish Agarwal On Surrender Before Trial Court In Case Over PA's Death
The Supreme Court directed Manish Agarwal, IAS & former Collector of Malkangiri district (Odisha), in a case accused in a case relating to the suspicious death of his Personal Assistant (PA) in the year 2019, to surrender before the trial court and furnish bail bonds to its satisfaction, upon which he shall be released on interim bail.A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar...
Sometimes Bureaucrats Have Arrogance, Don't Want To Go Before HCs : Supreme Court On J&K Admn's Plea Against Show-Cause Notice
"Sometimes bureaucrats have arrogance, they don't want to go before High Courts", observed the Supreme Court yesterday while dealing with Jammu and Kashmir administration's grievance against J&K&L High Court's issuance of a show-cause notice against its officer(s) in a contempt case.Briefly put, the plea was filed assailing two orders of the J&K&L High Court (one by a Single...
CJ Ramesh Sinha Launches FASTER Cell, E-Certified Copy Services At Chhattisgarh HC; Digitisation Centres In 5 District Courts
In a move towards modernising the judicial landscape of Chhattisgarh, Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha, on Tuesday, virtually inaugurated five Digitisation Centres, one each at the District and Sessions Court of Dhamtari, Kondagaon, Uttar Bastar Kanker, Bastar at Jagdalpur & Dakshin Bastar Dantewada (Chhattisgarh). Chief Justice Sinha also launched FASTER Cell & e-Certified...
Bangalore Palace Acquisition : Supreme Court Orders To Keep TDR Certificates In Registry, Bars Their Use If Already Released
The Supreme Court today, as an interim measure, directed that the Transferable Development Rights (TDR) certificates issued in respect of acquisition of 15 acres of Bangalore Palace Grounds shall remain with the Registry of the Court.In case the TDRs have been released to the non-applicants, the same shall not be utilized or sold, the Court said.To recap, while dealing with a batch of...
Supreme Court Bars Fresh UP Police FIR Against Couple Who Alleged Harassment By Multiple FIRs
The Supreme Court yesterday restrained Uttar Pradesh authorities from registering any fresh FIR against a couple from a politically influential family who accused the state of lodging multiple false cases against them with oblique motives.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta passed the order, after hearing Senior Advocate Indira Jaising on behalf of the petitioner-couple.At...
Supreme Court To Hear Next Week Plea Against Demolitions Ordered In Delhi's Jamia Nagar Batla House
The Supreme Court on Thursday (May 29) agreed to hear next week an application filed against the demolition notices issued against certain constructions in Batla House, Jamia Nagar, Delhi.The application has been filed by 40 persons who say that they are genuine residents and property owners of Khasra Nos. 271 and 279, Batla House.Advocate-on-Record Adeel Ahmad mentioned the matter before...
Details Of Journalist Rana Ayyub's X Account, Tweets Awaited: Delhi Police To Court In FIR Over Posts 'Insulting Hindu Deities'
The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed an action taken report before a Delhi Court in a case registered against journalist Rana Ayyub for allegedly insulting Hindu deities and spreading anti-India sentiment through her posts on 'X' (formerly Twitter) platform.The police filed the ATR before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Himanshu Raman Singh of Saket Courts. The Police has said that...
Former Punjab & Haryana High Court Justice Sureshwar Thakur Appointed As Chairman Of Punjab NRI Commission
The Punjab Government on Tuesday appointed former judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court Justice Sureshwar Thakur as the Chairman of that Punjab State Commission for NRIs.Justice Thakur retired from the High Court on May 16 after having served as a High Court judge for over 11 years.Justice Sureshwar Thakur, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, has had a long and illustrious career in the...
Savarkar Saw Muslims As Potential Traitors, Was Relative Of Nathuram Godse: Rahul Gandhi Tells Pune Court In Defamation Case
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has filed an application before the special MP/MLA Court in Pune claiming that right-wing leader Vinayak Savarkar was a relative and had blood relations with Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi and this very fact was not disclosed to the court by the complainant Satyaki Savarkar in his criminal defamation plaint against him (Rahul Gandhi).In an...