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 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..

 The Supreme Court cleared the decks for demolition of a jail in Lucknow to facilitate the construction of Dr B R Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram Memorial high tech eco-park. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal stayed the order of Allahabad High Court directing the state government not to demolish the jail till further or..

The Government of India has been implementing schemes for Jail Reforms in the country. The Government had constituted following committees for various jail reforms in the country. (i) All India Jail Reforms Committee in 1980 headed by justice A.N. Mulla (Retired) which gave its report in 1983. (ii) Kapoor Committee (1986) to examine and review various aspects of a..

The Government proposes to strengthen right to information by suitably amending the laws to provide for disclosure by government in all non-strategic areas. In this regard, it is proposed to review the number of organizations in the second schedule to the Right to Information Act, 2005 and make rules for more disclosure of information by public authorities. Government has r..

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (i) Shri Justice Mihir Kumar Jha and (ii) Shri Justice Kishore Kumar Mandal, Additional Judges of the Patna High Court to be Judges of the Patna High Court, in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices. ..

A section of lawyers today assaulted Additional District Judge Pankaj Gupta while he was presiding over his judicial function.  The Additional Judge was hearing a divorce petition and inquiring about the authenticity of the petition filed in this matter. On this, the lawyer of the petitioner got agitated and started abusing the judicial officer.  ..

An interlocutory application was filed in the Jharkhand High Court today against Union Food Processing and Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahay accusing him of amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income. One Bhubaneshwar Tiwary filed the petition and demanded an investigation into the matter. The petition would be taken up for h..