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The Supreme Court on Friday sought a comprehensive report from the NHRC on steps taken by the state governments to eradicate bonded and child labour. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam asked NHRC to assist in the matter after it was informed that the rights body in 2004 was asked to monitor the development in this regard. Senior advocate A K Ganguly,..

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (1) Shri Parameswaran Bhavadasan, (2) Shri Soudamini Amma Sankaranarayana Pilla Satheesachandran, (3) Shri Madathiparambil Lonappan Joseph Francis and (4) Shri Pullukatte Sanku Gopinathan, Judicial Officers, as Additional Judges of the Kerala High Court, in that order ..

Transparency within the judiciary serves at least two important purposes — it decreases the opportunities for corrupt practices and promotes public confidence in the institution. Given these vital roles, it is surprising that there should be stiff judicial resistance to making public whether members of the higher judiciary are submitting declarations about their financial assets as they are e..

Govt virtually rejected the recommendation of CEC N Gopalaswami for removal of his colleague Navin Chawla on Monday and hinted at making the Election Commissioner as the next CEC. Law Minister H R Bhardwaj said that the government had a policy to have the senior most Election Commissioner as the CEC and "our policy continues to be the same." Describing the present controversy as "unfortun..

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Fresh guidelines banning publication of exit and opinion polls before the coming Lok Sabha elections are likely to be issued by the Election Commission. The move comes against the backdrop of the Supreme Court leaving it to the discretion of the EC to decide on laying down guidelines on the opinion and exit polls till the government frames regulation on the issue. "Now t..

Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami, has confirmed that he did send his report on the issue of Election Commisioner Navin Chawla to President Prathibha Patil. He however, declined to elaborate on the content of the report while speaking to reporters. Meanwhile, the Congress has said that political parties should not politicise such issues. Congress said that "several intricate..

New Delhi, Jan 31 (UNI) The DDA sought more time for its internal inquiry, which was to conclude yesterday, into the alleged housing scam. Earlier, the inquiry was to come to an end on January 24 but later its term was extended till yesterday. A request from the DDA in this connection has been made to the Union Urban Development Ministry but it is yet to respond. The inquiry, led by DDA fi..

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on the issue of providing voters an option to cast a negative vote during elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. A bench of Justices B N Aggrawal and G S Singhvi reserved the verdict after two days of arguments during which then Commission supported the plea of the petitioner PUCL that a voter must be given the option to cast a ne..

New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday disposed of a petition over the irregularities in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing scam and asked the petitioner to approach another court for relief.A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna directed Rajesh Kumar to approach another bench of the high court, as several other petitions o..

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 28) rejected an Indian Air Force (IAF) employee's plea seeking cancellation of DDA's recent draw for flats, observing that the city police has initiated a probe into the alleged irregularities committed by officials. "The probe is on and at this stage you have approached the court. You have been granted liberty to file the petition after the investiga..

New Delhi: Shibu Soren, Pappu Yadav, Md Shabuddin and Raja Bhayia are a few politicians with criminal records. The Election Commission says that the best way to keep out criminals it to hand over the ``none of the above'' option. So a separate button is being proposed. On Wednesday, the Election Commission told the Supreme Court that it wants to offer the voter the right to reject. It will be a..

Member of Commission on Centre-State Relations N R Madhava Menon opined that the Centre and states should undertake comprehensive law reforms to tide over the dysfunctionality between the Constitutional tenets and the Indian Statute Book. Inaugurating a seminar on ‘Law Reforms as an Instrument of Social Engineering’, Mr Menon said ‘unless comprehensive law reform is undertaken by the Centre and..

Two days after a senior advocate declined to help Delhi High Court in adjudicating whether senior judges should make their assets public, there is word of intervention from a body of practising lawyers. Asserting that ‘people have a right to know about the assets of Judges and their family members,’ Delhi High Court Bar Association unanimously resolved last evening to ‘intervene in the petition..

Parliamentary Standing Committee(PSC) on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice Chairman E M Sudarshana Nachiappan appealed to the Supreme Court registry to withdraw its petition before the Delhi High Court in a case relating to judges assets declaration. Talking to newspersons here, after a review of implementation of Right to Information Act (RTA) and reservation policy, Mr Nachiappan ..

Supreme Court sowed seeds of RTI in 2002 Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: French poet, playwright and novelist Victor-Marie Hugo, exponent of ‘Romantic Movement’, wrote the immortal words — “invasion of armies can be resisted, but an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted” — in his mid-19th century novel ‘The History of a Crime’. Exactly 150 years after Hugo wrote his book, the Suprem..