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The Patna High Court on Monday directed the Begusarai DM to acquire land for an approach road to the rail-road bridge over the Ganga river between Munger and Begusarai, which is nearing completion.  A division bench comprising Chief Justice P K Misra and Justice Anjana Prakash passed the order ..

A PIL has been filed at Jharkhand High Court against director general of police (DGP) V D Ram, additional director general of police (ADGP) Rajiv Kumar and a dozen others for embezzlement from the Secret Services (SS) funds.  The PIL filed by advocate Ram Subag Singh alleged that DGP V D Ram an..

 A local court on Monday directed the police to investigate under CrPC 156 (3) the incident wherein some students of Auxilium School (Makarpura) were pulled up for putting 'mehndi' on their hands last week.  According to complainant Bhavesh Ganatra, his daughter Radha, who studies in Auxil..

Overburdened by "heavy workload'', a trial court judge recently passed a wrong order leading to the arrest of a man who was already discharged by a sessions court in a cheating case.  Litigant Hemant Kumar had thought that his 12-year-long battle was over after a sessions court last year d..

The two-judge bench which directed the closure of unrecognised schools in Vishakapatnam refused to budge from its stance in spite of repeated pleas from the state to reopen the schools. "The ruling of closure will be adhered to, but let the students go back to school," additional advocate general Sudarshan Red..

The Madras high court has held that Dr T Chinnaraj Joseph Jayakumar, the ousted principal of The American College in Madurai, is entitled to continue in the post, and directed the higher education authorities to hand over the college administration to him.  A division bench comprising Justice V..

A petition was filed on Monday in Gujarat High Court challenging the ban by the state government on expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh's book "Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence".  The petition filed by Manishi Jani, a distinguished poet and writer, and Prakash Shah, a professor of ..

 Five days after the state government banned Jaswant Singh’s controversial book ‘Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence’, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in Gujarat High Court on Monday, challenging it. This PIL may come up for hearing before a la..

The Allahabad High Court, on Monday, refused to stay the arrest of BJP MP Rama Kant Yadav against whom an FIR was lodged under Section 302, 307 of IPC for opening fire on the members of Ulema Council in which one person died. The allegation against the MP was that he shot dead one Abdul Rehman and injured three members ..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan's dismissal of a conscientious objector in the judiciary as a ``publicity seeker'' is the latest in a series of attempts by him in recent months to play down or cover up serious issues concerning judicial accountability.  Rather than addressing the public..

The RTI complaints and appeals dealing with the State Information Commission and its nodal department -- administrative reforms department -- will be heard by the state chief information commissioner (SCIC) Ranjeet Singh Pankaj himself. The new SCIC, who was appointed on June 27 this year, has re-allocated the governmen..

The state unit of All India Lawyer's Union (AILU) on Sunday demanded the constitution of a national judicial commission and decided to send a proposal to this effect to the law ministry. In a meeting held under the chairmanship of its state president Balwant Singh, the union discussed the issue and said judicial commission was a need of the hour in order to completely abolish corruption preva..

Mandating the use of PAN (personal account number) for all high-value transactions was supposed to be an important way of plugging the black economy. But the I-T department is now discovering that has not quite happened. According to the Annual Information Return (AIR) filed with the government, high-value transactions amounted to more than Rs 55.7 lakh crore in 2007-08, almost double the Rs ..

The Delhi High Court has asked police why action was not initiated against owners of vehicles without insurance cover.  Justice J R Midha on Thursday issued a notice to the police commissioner to explain by October 5, why owners of such vehicles are let free, as it amounts to greater risk to them under any eventuality. The court was hearing an appe..

The Madras High Court has granted interim stay on a government order issued in November 2008 by the School Education Department, which made it mandatory for educational institutions established and administered by the Catholic Church to renew their minority status every five years.  Justice P Jyothimani passed the order on a petition by the Tamil Nadu Catholic Educatio..