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he Supreme Court has directed the Tirupur Dyeing Factory Owners Association to ensure there is no pollution in the Noyyal river or the Orthapalayam dam due to discharge of effluents from their units. A Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. Chauhan, disposing of appeals filed by the Association, also directed the units to ensure compliance with all court directives, includin..

he Advocates Association of Bangalore (AAB) on Wednesday resolved to request Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan and the collegium of the Supreme Court to expedite the inquiry against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran against whom corruption charges have been levelled. The AAB, which held a special general body meeting on the High Court premises, passed two resolutions on t..

he Delhi High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal filed by the Supreme Court Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) against a single judge’s order holding that information on assets declared by Supreme Court judges in the possession of the Chief Justice of India would come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. A Bench of Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar admitted..

The Supreme Court has held that an owner cannot be deprived of his or her land arbitrarily by the government under the so-called "extraordinary" powers as it would violate the citizen's fundamental right and chided the Haryana government for proposing a sewage treatment plant near a school and market place. Interpreting Section 17(4) of the Land Acquisition Act, which allowed authorities to tak..

LUCKNOW: The high court on Wednesday dismissed a bunch of writ petitions filed by scores of accused persons challenging the FIRs lodged in connection to distribution of old age pension to ineligible persons in Sitapur. The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Abdul Mateen and Justice V K Dixit. A large-scale scam was detected in the popular old age pension scheme of the gove..

The Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, stayed the filling up of a waterbody known as the Joypur Bil' in Howrah. Acting on a PIL by the Jalabhumi Banchao Committee and others, the vacation Bench of Justice Aniruddha Basu and Justice Sanjib Banerji directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to look into the matter and file a report by October 30. The matter will come up f..

In an important development in trials related to post-Godhra massacres, a special court on Wednesday held that the victims have no right to be represented by an independent lawyer when the state government takes up their cause. Designated judge SH Vora refused permission to two victims of Naroda Gam case to be represented by lawyers, which is normally termed as with prosecution'. The ..

The National Commission for Women (NCW) constituted an inquiry committee, headed by Wansuk Syiem, to probe the complaint of an Air India hostess of alleged molestation by its pilots. NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas said, ‘We have set up a high-level committee comprising social workers and experts. It will have tw..

 The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and Gujarat government on a petition challenging the High court order staying the magisterial probe into the killing of Ishrat Jahan by police i..

5000 Gramnayalayas are to be established in the country to give effect to the Gramnayalayas Act 2008...

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BJP's Jharkhand unit on Tuesday challenged in the Supreme Court continuance of President's rule in the state and keeping the assembly under suspended animation. The petition came up for hearing before a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B C Chauhan which defered the hearing for three weeks. The petition filed by the party's state unit spokesm..

The prosecution in the 26/11 terror attack case would examine a Magistrate tomorrow who had recorded the confession of the arrested LeT militant Mohamed Ajmal Kasab. The move is considered significant because Kasab has retracted his confession in the trial court saying his statement was recorded under duress and that he had not given it voluntarily. As Kasab has retracted his confessio..

The Delhi High Court has asked the Jamia Milia Islamia University to consider the plea of two students who were denied admission in Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS) course on the ground that they had passed intermediate examination a decade ago and are now seeking admission in degree a course. The Court also slapped a cost of Rs 15,000 on the University for denying admission to them in BDS cou..