“Amend Constitution to set up regional apex court benchesâ€J. VenkatesanIt will help the poor who can’t travel to Delhi, panel tells CentrePanel is not happy with the persistent oppositionNod for establishment of Benches in Chennai on trial basi ..
Judges, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion, was the focal point in 2008 for the Supreme Court which took extreme steps to keep the judiciary free from corruption after scams allegedly involving judges broke out.The image of the third pilla ..
HC INTERFEREING IN SIKH'S "RELEGIOUS AFFAIR'S" 29 Dec 2008, 0530 hrs IST, TNN AMRITSAR: Admitting that the definition of Sehajdhari Sikh submitted by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in High Court was wrong, SGPC president Avtar Singh M ..
WITNESSES IN NEW YAORK REFUSE TO RETURN TO INDIA :1984 RIOTS29 Dec 2008, 1217 hrs IST, PTI NEW YORK: Two key witnesses in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots have again ruled out returning to India to depose before the courts, but their testimony has been reco ..
YEDDYURAPPA FILES CRIMINAL SUIT AGAINST KUMARASWAMY:29 Dec 2008, 1304 hrs IST, PTI BANGALORE: Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa filed a criminal and civil suit against former chief minister and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy, for level ..
QUEENSLAND PREMIER FAVOURS APOLOGY TO HANEEF (INDIAN DOCTOR)29 Dec 2008, 1005 hrs IST, PTI MELBOURNE: Australian government should "take responsibility" and apologise to the "innocent" Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef, whose detention in connection wit ..
DELAY IN JUSTICE TO UNDERTRIALS IN PANJAB, DUE TO VISIT OF VIP'S29 Dec 2008, 0531 hrs IST, TNN BATHINDA:Excessive security to VIPs is not only leaving the common man unprotected but is delaying justice as happened in 21,990 cases of undertrials in n ..
NEARLY 2.94 CRORE CASES ARE PENDING : JUSTICE S B SINHA12/29/2008Supreme Court Judge S B Sinha said as many as 2.94 crore cases, including petty cases, were pending with the court till date.Addressing a two-day inauguration meeting on the legal aware ..
SC HOLDS 29 GUILTY OF RIOTING, MURDER OF DALITS12/29/2008SUPREME COURT :The Supreme Court has held twenty nine persons guilty of rioting leading to the murder of five Dalits in Andhra Pradesh. The accused belonging to Kamma community had attacked the ..
MADRAS HC DIRECTED STUDENTS TO BEHAVE PROPERLY12/29/2008MADRAS:Madras High Court has observed that students should behave properly in colleges as misbehaviour in college campus would not only tarnish the image of the institution, but also affect othe ..