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The alleged swindling of over Rs 4,000 crore of public money by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda on Friday figured in the Supreme Court which wryly suggested CBI go after big fish rather than small ones. The remarks made in a ligher vein by Justice Markandeya Katju sent the packed court hall into peals of laughter. "Bhai pakadna hai to badey machli kho pakdo, Madhu Koda Chaar Hazar..

wo years after a special court acquitted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar in the Sara Sahara case, the Bombay high court reopened the case on Thursday. Facing the heat this time are three senior BMC officers-assistant commissioner Rajendra Vale, executive engineer Devnath Kurmi and assistant engineer D G Tambulwadkar-for allegedly allowing the illegal construction of ..

Uttar Pradheh chief minister Mayawati on Friday challenged in the Supreme Court the decision of the Allahabad High Court to issue her notice for resumption of criminal proceedings against her in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam. Mayawati's petition was mentioned before a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and B Sudershan Reddy which decided to hear it on November 16. The BSP ch..

A Delhi court on Friday deferred pronouncement of its order by five months on a plea of a lawyer objecting to CBI's move to withdraw the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja, who was to deliver the order on Friday, adjourned the matter till March 31, 2010, saying the court did not have the origin..

A special court hearing the 26/11 attack case on Monday issued summons to a top external affairs ministry official to throw light on a dossier sent by Pakistan on Faheem Ansari, who is facing trial along with captured gunman Ajmal Kasab. The summons, returnable on November 17, was issued to MEA joint secretary Manpreet Vora on an application by special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. ..

Advocates in the city will boycott all court proceedings on November 9. They have demanded that Chief Justice P D Dinakaran not sit through any proceedings. This, until the collegium clears him of all corruption charges against him. A resolution was taken at a general body meeting of the Bangalore Advocates Association on Wednesday, which saw acrimony between pro and anti-Dinakaran cam..

In a welcome measure to speed up disposal of cases, the Madras High Court has decided to work for 15 minutes longer every day from the next judicial year. The Madras High Court, which already works 15 minutes longer than any other court in the country, has now decided to scale down the daily lunch recess from one hour to just 45 minutes. The revised sitting hours is from 10.30 am to 1.30..

A hasty' decision by a settlement officer granting pattas (titles) for 36 acres of government land at Guindy worth Rs 1,500 crore, in favour of nine individuals has been stayed by the Madras High Court. Justice V Dhanapalan granted the interim stay on the September 1, 2008 order by the settlement officer after admitting a writ petition filed by the Mambalam-Guindy taluk tahsildar. Th..

A CPM affiliated farmers' body in Tamil Nadu has announced that on November 9 it would forcibly enter the land allegedly encroached by Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran in a village in Tiruvallur district and distribute it to landless poor and Dalits. Tulsi Narayanan, District Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha, which is spearheading the agitation since the charges o..

he Chennai district collector's order to clear out 772 huts off New Avadi Road near Aspiran Garden in Kilpauk can neither be faulted nor be interfered with, the Madras high court has said. Dismissing a writ petition filed by the Kaalvaithurai Kudisaivazh Makkal Pothu Nala Sangam, the first bench comprising the chief justice HL Gokhale and justice D Murugesan said: "On perusal of the rele..

NEW DELHI: In a dramatic turn in the Ambani brothers' gas dispute case, Justice R V Raveendran, a senior Supreme Court judge on Wednesday withdrew from the Bench hearing it saying his daughter is associated with a solicitors firm advising the Mukesh Ambani group on other global projectsA new Bench will be constituted on Thursday to hear the high-voltage case between Mukesh Amabani's RIL an..

Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran facing allegations of land grabbing and charges of corruption was on Friday not available for comments on a media report that he passed orders allegedly in favour of a NRI family whose hospitality he had enjoyed in Canada. Dinakaran's office did not put through calls to the judge for his reaction to the media report. The office suggested that a..

The ruling DMK, which has been keeping silence over Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran land-grab issue, broke its silence on Saturday by expressing its virtual support for him drawing a parallel with AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa’s bungalow at Kodanadu allegedly built violating rules. DMK’s mouthpiece Murasoli allocated half page on Page 1 on its issue dated October 31 t..

A Pakistani anti-terror court conducting the trial of seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks on Saturday declared 14 other accused, including Ajmal Kasab, as "absconders" and adjourned the matter till November 7. During today's proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks -- including Kasab, the lone terrorist captured aliv..

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