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HC Orders Removal Of State Election Commissioner 16 Jan 2009, 0304 hrs IST, Ravi Dayal, TNN PATNA: In a major jolt to Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar, the Patna High Court on Thursday restrained State Election Commissioner (SEC) J K Dutt from performing his duty with immediate effect and ordered his removal saying his appointment, made by the chief minister, was not in ..

Non-Bailable Warrant Aagainst Bata GM 17 Jan 2009, 0313 hrs IST, TNN PATNA: In an important development, a CJM court on Friday ordered issuance of a non-bailable warrant of arrest against Bata India (Digha unit) general manager R J Prakash alias JP in connection with the case related to the killing of manager Pranav Kumar. Pranav had been shot dead near Polytechnic Mor under Pat..

SC Moves HC Against CIC Order On Judges' Assets 17 Jan 2009, 0134 hrs IST, Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN NEW DELHI: Worried over the fallout of a recent Central Information Commission (CIC) order on making the assets of judges public, the Supreme Court registrar on Friday challenged it before the Delhi high court saying that this information, not being in public domain, could not be given..

Delhi HC Directs Call Centre Cabs To Maintain Speed Limit 1/16/2009 The Delhi High Court dismissed the petition of call centre cab operators seeking quashing of Delhi Police Commissioner’s order which fixed the speed limit of the light commercial vehicles (LCV) at 40 km per hour. A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar while dismissing the petition filed by Gurg..

Chhattisgarh HC Receives Plea To De-Recognise BJP And Cong 1/16/2009 The Chhattisgarh High Court has received a plea seeking derecognition of the Congress and BJP for tempting a large segment of the electorate with promises of subsidised rice, salt and free power during the recently-concluded Assembly polls. The petition, submitted by senior advocate V G Tamrakar, also named the Election ..

Bombay HC Directs Mah Govt To File Its Say on New Nanded Revenue Division 1/16/2009 The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court directed the State Government to file its say in the court over petitions, challenging Government’s decision to create new divisional commissionerate at Nanded, by January 21. Two writ petitions were filed in the High Court bench comprising Justice P V Hardas and J..

Patna HC Holds State Election Commissioner's Appointment Illegal 1/16/2009 Patna High Court held the appointment of State Election Commissioner(SEC) JK Dutta illegal and restrained him from performing the duties of SEC. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and Justice Ravi Ranjan passed the order. Earlier in September 2008, the court had asked th..

Statement Of Finance Ministry On Inflation 1/16/2009 The following is the statement of Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on inflation issued here today: “Annual rate of inflation, year-on-year, declined to 5.2 per cent for the week ending January 3, 2009 compared to 5.9 per cent reported in the previous week, showing a decline of 67 basis points. There has been a fall of..

Guidelines Issued For Internship Training To Law Students From The National Law Schools 1/16/2009 The Department of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India, New Delhi, has been receiving requests from time to tome from individual Law students for internship training as per the requirements of their course of study. The Department has also been receiving requests..

SC Issues Contempt Notices For Not Probing Witness Murder In Nithari Case 1/15/2009 The Supreme Court issued contempt notices to former CBI Director Vijay Shankar and seven other officials, including officers of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh Police, for flouting Court orders to investigate the death of a witness in Nithari serial killings case. After hearing a petition filed by Bandana Sa..

Dashing any hopes of taking a lead and setting an example in the interest of transparency and public image, India's top judiciary at the Supreme Court disowned its decade-old resolution to oppose public scrutiny of the wealth of judges, and now plans to counter a ruling that apex courts judges' wealth can be a matter of public knowledge. This U-turn was made during arguments before the Central..

SC allows Sanjay Dutt to go abroad for shooting 1/15/2009 The Supreme Court permitted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to go abroad for shooting assignment. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal directed the STF Mumbai to release his passport and asked the actor to surrender his passport latest by February 20 to the STF. The apex court dir..

hiruvananthapuram, Wednesday, January 14, 2009: Talking to a private channel in New Delhi Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan said that, after pronouncing judgment in court the judges should refrain themselves from making judgments on it. Chief Justice added that various judges having different opinions on same topic under the same court is not a serious matter and that need not necessarily lea..

Allahabad HC Sets Aside High Llevel Committee Over Ppolice Recruitment Scam 1/15/2009 A division bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside the high level committee on whose recommendation several senior IPS officials were suspended and over 20,000 police constables were terminated from the service. The division bench comprising Justices A N Verma and S N Shukla passed the judgement on a..

Ex Union Minister Khalap To Lead 3 Member Goa State Law Commission 1/14/2009 Former Union Minister Ramakant Khalap would head the new 3-member State Law Commission constituted for Goa. Advocates Cleopato Cutinho and Mario Pinto Almeida are other members of the commission, said chief minister Digambar Kamat. The state cabinet had recently cleared the proposal to constitute the state-lev..