Month: September 2019

Bombay High Court dissatisfied with probe report on Pansare murder case

Source: newindianexpress.com MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday expressed displeasure over the probe report submitted by theĀ Special Investigation TeamĀ (SIT) to probe the murder case of CPI leader Govind Pansare. The report ā€œlacks independent stepsā€ and the things ā€œneed t be movingā€, noted the bench of justices SC Dharmadhikari and GS Patel, as they heard

DKS plea against bench order: Karnataka High Cour to decide

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

Judge vacancies at high courts hit 2019 high ā€” 414 posts need to be filled

Source: theprint.in New Delhi:Ā VacanciesĀ 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. Indiaā€™s 25 high courts have a sanctioned strength of 1,079 judges, of which 414 are currently vacant, higher than at

Illegal firearms unit operating from hilltop in Rajasthan busted, four held

Source: hindustantimes.com An illegal firearms manufacturing unit operating from a hilltop in Rajasthanā€™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 Delhiā€™s Chhawla, the Delhi police said Monday. Police said the gun-manufacturing unit had been operating since

Telangana High Court sets aside govt decision to demolish Errum Manzil

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

More cases of sexual harassment emerge at Dehradun institute

Source: newindianexpress.com DEHRADUN:Ā After a case of sexual harassment of a Class 5 student surfaced at the NationalĀ 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.Ā The accused is a student of Class 11 in the same institution. Questions are being

Subhasri death: Crackdown on illegal hoardings begins in Tamil Nadu delta districts

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

Give lenient punishment to safai karmacharis who were dismissed: Telangana HC

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