Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court expressed shock on Tuesday over 20,159 of 58,692 seats going uncontested in the recently held West Bengal panchayat elections and said it appeared that the constitutional mandate for democracy at the grassroots level was not working in the state. The State Election Commission attempted to make light of 34% of
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The dramatic turn of events through the night over the Karnataka power tussle in the Supreme Court here saw a mad rush of news-hungry scribes during the rare post-midnight hearing which continued till the wee hours today. As the speculations about possible court proceedings at night began around 10 PM last night, mediapersons started
Source – indiatoday.in The Calcutta High Court on Thursday suspended the panchayat election process in West Bengal till April 16. Hearing a petition filed by the Bengal unit of the BJP, Justice Subrata Talukdar issued a stay on the entire process of scrutiny and withdrawal of nomination papers underway across the state. The Court has also
Source – hindustantimes.com The BJP and the Congress on Thursday filed separate court petitions seeking deployment of central forces to ensure free and fair rural polls in West Bengal as violence rocked several districts of the Trinamool-ruled state in the run-up to next month’s elections. Trinamool leaders met governor Keshari Nath Tripathi and the state Election
Source – hindustantimes.com The law ministry on Wednesday cleared the ground for the government to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the apex court’s decision to ban automatic arrests and registration of criminal cases for suspected offences against underprivileged communities. The law ministry’s advice came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a
