has cleared the decks for elevation of four High Court Judges to Supreme Court.The elevation of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran has been put on hold for the time being in view of the allegations of land grabbing and corruption against him.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent the files to President Pratibha Patil, who is likely to sign the warrents of appointments next week.The judges...
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Centre has cleared the decks for elevation of four High Court Judges to Supreme Court.The elevation of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran has been put on hold for the time being in view of the allegations of land grabbing and corruption against him.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent the files to President Pratibha Patil, who is likely to sign the warrents of appointments next week.The...
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Justice Bilal Nazki was Saturday sworn in as the chief justice of the Orissa High Court just four days before he retires Nov 18.Justice Nazki, who was a judge of the Bombay High Court, was administered the oath by Governor M.C. Bhandare.Born Nov 18, 1947 in Srinagar, Justice Nazki obtained his law degree from Aligarh Muslim University.Prior to his elevation as an additional judge of the Jammu and Kashmir...
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Now that the elevation of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran to the Supreme Court has been put on hold, the transfer of Chief Justice Jasti Chelameswar from the Gauhati High Court to the Karnataka High Court has been cancelled.Highly placed sources said the cases of Justices Chelameswar and Ibrahim Kalifulla, the seniormost judge of the Madras High Court, (the recommendation to elevate...
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Orissa High Court today issueda notice to Bollywood actor and producer Nasir Khan, allegedlyinvolved in Rs 500 crore multi-level marketing frauds andBalasore chit fund case.The High Court Division bench comprising Acting ChiefJustice I M Quddishi and Justice Sanju Panda issued the noticeto Khan after the Crime Branch (CB), investigating the matter,informed the court that Khan, who was released under...
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Justice A K Patnaik (Madhya Pradesh High Court), Justice T S Thakur (Punjab & Haryana High Court), Justice K S Radhakrishnan (Gujarat High Court) and Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar (Calcutta High Court) were administered oaths of office and secrecy by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan at a simple ceremony attended by judges and advocates of the apex court....
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and Haryana High Court has run out of space to store its judicial records and will soon get a new building here to store these.Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator S.F. Rodrigues Friday laid the foundation stone of the Central Judicial Archive building for the high court in the city's industrial area (Phase-II) here, where judicial records will be preserved.This modern facility will be one...
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has run out of space to store its judicial records and will soon get a new building here to store these.Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator S.F. Rodrigues Friday laid the foundation stone of the Central Judicial Archive building for the high court in the city's industrial area (Phase-II) here, where judicial records will be preserved.This modern facility will...
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Gujarat high court and the state government may have begun upgrading and launched reforms for the state judiciary, by the apex court in the state is currently functioning with considerably less strength that what has been approved for more than 15 years.At present, 27 judges are working at the Gujarat high court, against the approved strength of 42. The Supreme Court of India is yet to appoint judges...
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Justice Bilal Nazki was today sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Orissa High court at a function on the high court premises.Orissa Governor M C Bhandare administered the oath to Mr Justice Nazki, who was earlier a senior most judge in Mumbai High Court, in presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnailk, State Finance Minister P C Ghadei and other judges and bar members besides Chief Secretary T K Mishra.The...
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