Source: dailyexcelsior.com NEW DELHI, July 17: Seven of the nine recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium this year to appoint Chief Justices to nine High Courts have been accepted while two names are under “various stages of processing”, Lok Sabha was informed today.In a written reply, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said up to
Source: opindia.com The Ranchi District Bar Association has decided to boycott the court for Magistrate Manish Kumar Singh for his controversial order asking a woman to distribute Quran as a condition for bail. Talking to media, Secretary of the bar association Kundan Prakash said that they have lodged a complaint with the Judicial Commissioner against
Source: indiatoday.in Home Minister Anit Shah on Wednesday said that the Centre will identify illegal immigrants staying in any part of the country and deport them as per the international law. Amit Shah also said that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was a part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election manifesto and would
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com KOLKATA: Former Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar Wednesday told the Calcutta High Court that the CBI was indulging in a pick and choose game by summoning him in the Saradha ponzi scam case among 121 officers of the SIT that probed the fraud on lakhs of investors. Kumar’s counsel Milan Mukherjee submitted that
Source: newindianexpress.com BHUBANESWAR: The demand of Congress for a permanent bench of Odisha High Court in Western Odisha rocked the Assembly forcing Speaker SN Patro to adjourn the House thrice. Even as members of Balangir Bar Association and Joint Action Committee held a rally in front the Assembly demanding a permanent HC bench in their district,
Source: orissapost.com Chandigarh: Sensing the gravity of the matter, the Punjab and Haryana High Court here Wednesday decided to hear Thursday the Kathua rape victim father’s plea seeking death penalty for the heinous act and murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Jammu and Kashmir last year. The father has sought an enhancement of the life sentence
Source: indiatoday.in Former Border Security Force (BSF) jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav was not given an opportunity to be heard by election authorities before rejection of his nomination papers for Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency polls, his counsel claimed on Wednesday in the Allahabad High Court which was hearing his election petition. The petition was filed by
Source: kashmirobserver.net SRINAGAR — Observing that traffic rules and regulation are violated with impunity in Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday directed the IGP Traffic Kashmir to submit report to show traffic rules are adhered to in the Valley. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and
Source: greaterkashmir.com The High Court on Wednesday directed the state Government to submit detailed report about status of digitization of revenue record in J&K. The Court issued the directions in response to a Public Interest litigation, seeking details records about status of digitisation of revenue record project, expenditure incurred on it and present position of
Source: theprint.in New Delhi: Seven arduous months after hopelessly searching for the bodies of 13 miners trapped in an illegal coal mine at Ksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams are now packing their bags to go back home. The Supreme Court Friday
