Source:- oneindia.com More than a month after he went into hiding following a Supreme Court order to jail him, Justice (retired) C S Karnan was arrested from Coimbatore on Tuesday. Close aide and advocate of the retired Calcutta High Court judge confirmed the arrest to OneIndia. “We arrested former high court judge Karnan at around
Source:- newsx.com The Supreme Court has directed that the Majithia Wage Board recommendations on wages for newspaper employees have to be âimplemented in totoâ and managements could not cite lack of funds for avoiding payments. It also said in its judgment on Monday that there was no difference between full-time employees and contract workers as
Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind will, in all likelihood, succeed Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India. BJP president Amit Shah, announcing Kovind’s name for President, said that the alliance partners of the NDA had already been consulted for the presidential election. The BJP has sought support from Opposition parties including the Congress.
Source:- hindustantimes.com The government will appoint 11 high court judges this week despite lack of agreement with the judiciary over a proposal to bring transparency in nominating judges to higher courts. These judges will be appointed in the Madras, Punjab and Haryana and Chhattisgarh high courts, sources in the law ministry said. Judges are selected
Source:- indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court has reduced the life term of a convict, who killed a 25-year-old man, to six years in jail to grant him an opportunity to reform and rehabilitate. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, which upheld the conviction of the 41-year-old man, showed leniency
Source:- thehindu.com In a set back to several candidates set join posts of Group A and Group B gazetted probationer following their selection, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday refused to vacate its April 5 interim order restraining the government from appointing 362 candidates who were selected in the 2011 recruitment batch by the
Source:- thehindubusinessline.com UNITED NATIONS, JUN 20: Â Justice Dalveer Bhandari has been nominated by India as its candidate for another nine year term as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN. Bhandari, 69, was elected in April 2012 during simultaneous balloting in both the General Assembly and the
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Delay in amending the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to provide women a wider window to abort terminally ill fetuses is forcing many to move the Supreme Court for permission to end their pregnancies that are beyond the legally permissible termination period of 20 weeks. The SC on Wednesday sought
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Robert Pious, one of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who has been behind bars for more than 26 years, on Wednesday submitted a request for mercy killing to the Puzhal prison authorities. Pious was sentenced to life imprisonment but although the state government had decided to release all seven
Source:-indiatoday.intoday.in The Supreme Court today denied interim bail for controversial former judge CS Karnan. Karnan, who retired in disgrace as a Calcutta High Court judge, was arrested in Coimbatore on Tuesday evening. Karnan was sentenced to six months in jail by the Supreme Court, which ordered his arrest after finding him in contempt for defaming
