The Supreme Court on Monday refused to suspend an Allahabad High Court order threatening to initiate contempt of court proceedings against top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats and police officials for disobeying an order on irregularities in police recruitment. &n..
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C.M. Girish Babu v C.B.I., Cochin, High Court of Kerala 24/2/2009. Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 - section - and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) - conviction under - was acquitted of the charge under Section 120B of the IPC -the appellant preferred an appeal to the Kerala High Court at Ernakulam, which dismissed the appeal by its judgment dated 28th November, 2007. However, the Appellate Court ..
Government of India have announced the sale (re-issue) of (i) “7.59 percent Government Stock 2016” for a notified amount of Rs.6,000 crore (nominal) (ii) “7.94 percent Government Stock 2021” for a notified amount of Rs.3,000 crore (nominal) (iii) "8.24 percent Government Stock 2027" for a notified amount of Rs.3,000 crore (nominal) and (iv) “7.40 percent ..
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The domestic industry need not, hereafter, unduly worry about any surge in imports from Singapore on account of the preferential treatment under the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). The Centre has now put in place a sa..
The Delhi Consumer Commission on Friday fined ICICI Bank Rs 10 lakh for denying a credit card to an advocate on grounds that the profession is of a “negative profile”. Taking the bank to task for indulging in “cavalier conduct and unpardonable negligence”, Justice J D Kapoor said the “conduct of the bank has not only defamed but also demeaned the profession as a whole”. Kapoor awarded the compl..
The Supreme Court has severely censured some lawyers for their attitude and said they consider themselves 'above law' and it would not allow their 'hooliganism'. A vacation bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Deepak Verma made the remarks against the lawyers while hearing a lawsuit..
The RBI governor D Subbarao on Monday asked banks to lower their intra-bank fund transfer charges, saying that it did not make sense that the charge for such fund movement was more than inter-bank charges. “I was surprised to note that transfer of ..
With the Centre already breaching the deficit targets stipulated under the Fiscal Responsibility & Budget Management (FRBM) Act, the finance ministry is seeking to ask the new government to amend it. In light of the changed economic scenario, the ministry fe..
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court seems to have found a novel way of putting journalists in their place. It has built two concrete benches on the pavement outside court premises with a board reserving that space for "accredited journalists'' who cover court proceedings on a day to day basis. Interestingly, the constructions adjoining the road are a result of efforts of a..
The Authority for Advance Rulings has a new Member — Mr J. K. Batra. Mr Batra was Central Board of Excise and Customs Member (Customs). Sources said the CBEC Member, Mr Rakesh Sharma, who oversees Service Tax and Computerisation, has been given additional charge of Customs. ..
The Madhya Pradesh High Court will observe a month-long summer vacation from May 18. According to Registry source, Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik has consented to cut down the summer vacation by seven days. The summer vacation at the principal se..
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