Source: newindianexpress.com MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday expressed displeasure over the probe report submitted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the murder case of CPI leader Govind Pansare. The report “lacks independent steps” and the things “need t be moving”, noted the bench of justices SC Dharmadhikari and GS Patel, as they heard
Source: deccanchronicle.com Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday said it will pass orders on the maintainability of the appeals filed by senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar and three others, challenging the order of the single-judge bench which has dismissed their plea questioning the ED summons issued against them in a money laundering case. Appearing for
Source: theprint.in New Delhi: Vacancies in high courts hit a new high this month, with no incumbents for 38 per cent of the sanctioned posts for permanent and additional judges, according to data from the Law Ministry. India’s 25 high courts have a sanctioned strength of 1,079 judges, of which 414 are currently vacant, higher than at
Source: hindustantimes.com An illegal firearms manufacturing unit operating from a hilltop in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur was busted last week by a Delhi Police crime branch team after the arrest of four gunrunners with 10 pistols and as many cartridges from Delhi’s Chhawla, the Delhi police said Monday. Police said the gun-manufacturing unit had been operating since
Source: newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: In a huge setback to the Telangana government, a division bench of the High Court on Monday set aside the Cabinet decision dated June 18 this year to demolish the 150-year-old Errum Manzil building and construct a new state legislative Assembly and Council complex in its place. Although the judicial review of
Source: newindianexpress.com DEHRADUN: After a case of sexual harassment of a Class 5 student surfaced at the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities here last week, it has emerged that four more students were sexually harassed by the accused earlier. The accused is a student of Class 11 in the same institution. Questions are being
Source: orissapost.com Bhawanipatna: People living in areas cut off by the Indravati reservoir in the T Rampur block of Kalahandi district are forced to risk their lives on country boats as there is no bridge connecting Kenduguda Ghat to Gopinathpur. The only hope of people here are country boats in which they travel to villages in
Source: thenewsminute.com After Chennai, districts such as Trichy and Thanjavur in the central part of Tamil Nadu are witnessing a crackdown on illegal hoardings erected in public places. The police and civic authorities in these districts have taken a drive to remove any hoardings, banners, publicity material, including those put up by political parties in
Source: newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has come to the rescue of several safai karmacharis-cum-sub-staff who were dismissed from service by the authorities of the Central Bank of India for allegedly submitting fake educational certificates at the time of recruitment. The court recently directed the authorities concerned to impose a lenient punishment in the matter. Justice
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: A partner in a partnership firm is entitled to sue other partners, the Madras High Court has held in a significant order, while permitting BR Srinivasa Rao, one of the partners in Cauvery Hospital to take steps to evict the hospital from its current premises in Villivakkam. According to advocate VS Suresh,
