Assam NRC: SC Extends Time For Submission Of Claims To Dec 31

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Rohinton Nariman on Wednesday extended to December 31 the deadline for the submission of claims and objections by individuals excluded from the first draft of the NRC for the state of Assam as published on July 30.Earlier, the last date for submission was December 15. Consequently, the process of commencement of...

SC Permits Punjab And Haryana DGPs To Continue In Office Till Jan 31, 2019

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S. K. Kaul and K. M. Joseph on Wednesday permitted the incumbent DGPs of the states of Punjab and Haryana, whose terms expire on December 31, to continue in office till January 31, 2019.The bench also allowed the original petitioners in the Police Reforms case (Prakash Singh v. UOI; 2006) to file their objections to the...

Rajasthan HC Stays Arrest Of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Over Brahminical Patriarchy Poster Row

The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday granted Twitter Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey a stay on his arrest in connection with the FIR registered against him for hurting the sentiments of Brahmin community after his photo holding the slogan “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” went viral.Dorsey had moved the high court after a Jodhpur court on Saturday ordered registration of FIR against him on the...

Jaypee Infratech Case : Publication Of Homebuyers' Names In List Of Creditors Will Not Violate Privacy, Rules NCLT [Read Order]

The Allahabad bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held that disclosure of the names of homebuyers in the list of creditors will not result in violation of privacy.The Tribunal was dealing with the resolution process of Jaypee Infratech Ltd(JIL), following directions from the Supreme Court. The SC had directed on August 9 to include homebuyers in the Committee of Creditors(CoC),...

Protect CIC From Vacancies & Appointment Of Former Bureaucrats: Former CIC Prof. Sridhar Acharyulu To President

Former Central Information Commissioner Prof. M. Sridhar Acharyulu has written a letter to President of India Ram Nath Kovind, demanding that the Central Information Commission (CIC) be protected from being diluted through vacancies and increased appointment of former bureaucrats.The letter states, “Your Excellency, the nation looks up to you with a fond hope to strengthen the Right...

Actor Dileep's Plea For Copy Of Memory Card : SC To Hear Prosecution First

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Ajay Rastogi deferred to Wednesday the hearing on Malayalam film actor Dileep’s plea for procuring a copy of the memory card containing visuals of the alleged sexual assault committed against an actress.The bench expressed a desire to first hear the prosecution (State of Kerala). It has been the state’s stance that the said memory...

Delhi HC Seeks CBI Response On Defacto-Complainant Sana's Plea For Hearing Him In Asthana Case

The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought the CBI's response on a plea by Hyderabad-based businessman Satish Babu Sana seeking to be heard in a matter relating to the quashing of an FIR registered against Special Director Rakesh Asthana on bribery allegations.Justice Najmi Waziri also sought reply of Asthana, CBI Director Alok Verma and Joint Director A K Sharma on the plea of Sana requesting him to...

Madhya Pradesh HC Rejects Plea Alleging Lack of Sufficient Security to EVMs [Read Order]

“These strong rooms are under the security of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces with a triple cordon of security.”The Madhya Pradesh High Court has disposed of a plea of a Congress leader who had expressed his concern over the alleged lack of sufficient security in some districts in respect of polled/unused electronic voting machines (EVMs) and Voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT)...

Shashi Tharoor Files Criminal Defamation Case Against Ravi Shankar Prasad For Calling Him “Murder Accused”

Congress leader Dr. Shashi Tharoor has filed a criminal defamation case against Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, after the latter called him an “accused in a murder case” during a press conference. The case was filed on December 7 in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Thiruvananthapuram.Mr. Prasad had made the remarks after Mr. Tharoor referred to an article quoting an unnamed...

Mere Movement Of SIM Doesn’t Prove Movement Of Accused Along With It: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

In a setback to investigating agencies, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that mere movement of SIM card would not be sufficient to prove the movement of the person allegedly using the SIM card.A bench comprising Justice AB Chaudhari and Justice Kuldip Singh asserted, “To repeat, the prosecution cannot claim that by movement of SIM cards from one place to another, that it has...

PIL In Delhi HC Seeking Entry Of Women Into Nizamuddin Dargah [Read Petition]

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court on December 6 that seeking to permit the entry of women into sanctum sanctorum of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. The plea was moved by a group of female law students from Pune, who on visiting the holy shrine in Delhi were aggrieved with ban on women entry.The PIL, which is likely to be taken up in the Court next week,...

Arnab Goswami Directed To Appear In Shashi Tharoor's Criminal Defamation Case On Feb 28

The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram, has issued summons to Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, directing him to appear in court on February 28,2019 in the criminal defamation case filed by Dr.Shashi Tharoor.Dr. Tharoor,the MP of Thiruvananthapuram, had filed the case in June 2017 alleging that Goswami had made defamatory statements against him in a program in Republic...