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The Law Commission has, inter alia, suggested in its 214th Report that the primacy of the Chief Justice of India and the power of the executive to make appointment of Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts should be restored. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee had also recommended restoration of pre-1993 position wherein the executive and the judiciary both were in..

The erstwhile National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (NCSCST) submitted its last report (7th Annual Report) on 19.02.2004. After bifurcation of NCSCST into two Commissions namely the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), NCSC submitted its first Annual Report for the year 2004-05 on 17.7.2006, while the Na..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the state and Union Government to submit a detailed report on the protection of the tigers and other wildlife animals facing extinction. The court also directed to take action in compliance of the Central Steering Committee and th..

Upholding the judgment of the Divisional Forum, Jammu and Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), has directed the government to pay Rs 50,000 to a consumer for disconnecting his water connection. Rejecting the appeal of the public health engineer..

DelhiThe Supreme Court on Friday declined to intervene in the Uttar Pradesh government’s drive of installing statues of chief minister Mayawati, Dalit leaders and the BSP elephant symbol, presently on in Noida near Delhi. “If a democratically elected government decides to do something without misappropriating public money, there is little co..

 The Uttar Pradesh government has filed an FIR in connection with missing files relating to the Ayodhya title case. The missing documents include letters and correspondence between the then DC of Faizabad and the state go..

 The Supreme Court on Friday directed an adhoc body working on behalf of Campa, which was constituted for recovering funds in lieu of diversion of forest land for non-forest purpose, to release Rs 1,000 crore per year in the next five years to states for compensatory afforestation. The adhoc body of Campa (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority) was creat..

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today upheld Chief Information Commissioner C D Arha’s order that if the appellant is aggrieved by the verdict of a judge, he should appeal it in a court of competent jurisdiction and Right to Information(RTI) Act is not the forum for redressal of his grievances. Dissatisfied with the orders of the first Appellate Authority in a case, K G..

 The Bar Association of the Chandigarh District Court has complained to the District and Sessions Judge, K K Garg against Shurbir Singh, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (South), on account of misbehaviour and misconduct with lawyers. They have asked for the withdrawal of judicial work, in case he does not behave properly with the lawy..

 The Supreme Court has rejected a reference made by the government, seeking opinion of the Court under Article 317 (1) of the Constitution whether the Chairman of the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission Mr Ashok Darbari ought to be removed from the post on the grounds of misbehavior. Mr Darbari, former DGP of Chhattisgarh, was appointed Chairman of the Commission an..

 Justice Kamal Mehta Commission, constituted by the Gujarat government to probe into the spurious liquor tragedy, has been asked to submit its report by November 30 this year, official sources said today. The four-member commission, headed by retired High Court Judge Kamal M Mehta, includes retired DGP G C Raigar, Forensic Science Laboratory Deputy Director Dr Mohinder..

 In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Rakesh Chandra Mishra, Additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, to be a Judge of the Madhya Pradesh Hi..

  The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay installation of statues of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and other Dalit leaders    at Noida. br..

 The Supreme Court refused to restrain the Uttar Pradesh government from carrying out work for installation of statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and other Dalit leaders at a park in Noida. The apex Court said it cannot interfere in the matter in which the approval has been granted by the state Cabinet. "If it has been ..

Two lawyers were on Thursday arrested in connection with the alleged manhandling of a judge at a district court in the capital following a verbal duel during the hearing in a matrimonial dispute case. Vikas Gupta and Rekha Sharma were arrested for allegedly attacking Additional District Judge (ADJ) Pankaj Gupta, who was presiding over the court dealing with the cases under the Hindu Ma..