Month: June 2019

Calcutta High Court to hear Rajeev Kumar’s plea in Saradha chit fund case, July 2

Source:- orissapost.com Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has fixed July 2 for the hearing of former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar’s plea seeking quashing of a notice served on him by the CBI. Justice Asha Arora scheduled Wednesday the hearing of the petition filed by Kumar, now the West Bengal CID Additional Director General (ADG), after

NCLAT rejects CoC plea seeking early disposal of Bhushan Power and Steel CIRP

Source:- barandbench.com The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has rejected an “appeal” made by the Committee of Creditors (CoC) of debt-ridden Bhushan Power and Steel seeking the “early disposal” of the corporate insolvency resolution process by the Adjudicating Authority, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), New Delhi. The plea was filed to speed track the

Preeti Rathi acid attack case: Bombay High Court commutes death sentence to life imprisonment

Source:- indiatoday.in he Bombay high court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence awarded to the murderer of Preethi Rathi, who had been attacked with acid in 2013, to life imprisonment. The division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice Prakash D Naik, while reading out the judgement in their chamber, upheld the conviction of 25-yr-old

Pattoor land scam: VS moves Kerala High Court

Source:- newindianexpress.com KOCHI: VS Achuthanandan, chairman, Administrative Reforms Commission of Kerala, on Wednesday approached the High Court challenging the Thiruvananthapuram Vigilance Court order dismissing his complaint seeking a Vigilance probe into the alleged encroachment into the land of the Kerala Water Authority at Pattoor,in  Thiruvananthapuram. He said the Vigilance Court rejected his complaint on the ground the

Illegal minor mineral mining case: CBI searches across Uttar Pradesh

Source:- thehindu.com CBI registered an FIR following an inquiry as per the Allahabad High Court’s directive. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted searches at more than 20 places, including premises linked to former Uttar Pradesh Mining Minister Gayatri Prajapati and former Lok Sabha MP Ghanshyam Anuragi, in connection with alleged illegal mining of minor

3 men sentenced to life for rape, murder of 8-year-old Kathua girl

Source:- hindustantimes.com Three men convicted for gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua were on Monday sentenced to life in jail. A Pathankot court, which had convicted six people a few hours earlier, sentenced three others to five years for destroying evidence to shield the rapists. Sanji Ram, a retired revenue department official, Deepak

Next stop for life, the Supreme Court

Source:- denvercatholic.org It is inspiring to see states across the country significantly restrict abortion this year, primarily by banning the destruction of life within the womb once a fetal heartbeat is detected. These laws are also a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that nationalized the question of abortion and legalized