The Allahabad HC on Saturday dismissed a writ petition filed by a Kanpur resident seeking ‘monitoring’ of the investigation in connection with an FIR lodged against Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh. A division bench of Justice Sunil Ambaw ..
After judges, it is the babus’ turn to take a call on disclosing their assets under the Right to Information Act. A confidential memo in TOI’s possession shows that senior, secretary-level bureaucrats in the government of India plan to meet on Novemb ..
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday underlined the need for the formation of an All-India Judicial Service, on the lines of the Central civil services, for improving quality of subordinate courts.“While the service-conditions for Hig ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and others asking them to explain why they should be allowed to charge the development fee at the Delhi airport. Acting on a petition by a consumer rights group, a Bench headed by Ju ..
oon, one can expect a more stringent Motor Vehicles Act, state-of-the-art fitness centres to check road worthiness of vehicles in all states and safer road designs to contain the burgeoning number of road deaths in the country. As India ranks first i ..
New Delhi: A city court on Saturday deferred its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to withdraw Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi's name from the Bofors gun deal payoff case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja defe ..
The Forum for Judicial Accountability on Friday demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation register the First Information Report against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran under the Prevention of Corruption Act and other relevan ..
Moves to steer clear of tainted persons as Judges, set up commercial courts for early disposal of high value business disputes and reduce time courts take on cases from 15 years to three years were announced. Acknowledging more than 31 million cases ..
The Supreme Court said a Hindu woman is reluctant to lodge an FIR for an offence like rape and may take some time before deciding to register a case against the culprit, who had sexually assaulted her. A bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and De ..
Supreme Court lawyer Ajay Agarwal filed arguments before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja praying not to close the sensational Bofors kickbacks case pending against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. The CBI had filed a ..