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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has moved the Supreme Court challenging an Allahabad High Court decision to entertain a lawsuit seeking revival of a corruption case in the multi-crore Taj Heritage Corridor scam. Mayawati approached the apex court over the weekend against the Sep 18 order of the Lucknow bench of the high court, which issued notices to her and her cabinet colleague..

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he Supreme Court has sought the newly-constituted National Investigation Agency's response on a petition questioning its power to invoke a stringent act with retrospective effect against an Assam government official for "waging war" against the country. Deputy director of Social Welfare Department, North Cachar HIlls, Redaul Hussain Khan was arrested on May 31 by Assam's Bashishta police on ..

n a major relief to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Supreme Court today declined to stay the installations of her statues in Noida. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam said the court cannot intervene in such matters until and unless a case of misappropriation of fund is made since the process has been approved by the state cabinet. ..

The government today defended the decision to withdraw the Bofors pay-off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi saying there was no criminality involved."There have been cases in foreign courts, domestic courts, high court ... everywhere it has gone. Everyone said there is no case. The Delhi High Court said there is no case under the Prevention of Corruption Act. When there is no ca..

he National Human Rights Commission has directed the Jharkhand Government to pay Rs.1 lakh as relief to the family of an adivasi student who died in police custody on April 9, 2002, after his arrest in connection with a bank dacoity case. The Commission asked the Jharkhand Chief Secretary to submit compliance report and proof of payment. Kartik Oraon of Gumla district was picked up by the po..

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..