Acting on a plea by New York-based medical practitioner, Ravi Chandran, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Tarun Chatterjee ordered deportation of his ex-wife Vijayashree Voora and seven-year-old son to New York on Tuesday.Chandran had moved the Supreme Court after the Indian police failed to trace his son and Voora, who ran to India following a bitter custody battle in New York.On Chandran’s...
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Collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishanan today again failed to take a final decision on the fate of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran in relation to his elevation to the Supreme Court. The SC Collegium is reconsidering its decision on its recommendation to elevate Justice Dinakaran to Supreme Court along with four others. Justice Dinakaran is facing allegations...
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Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan and 20 other judges of the Supreme Court declare assets on an official website.Supreme Court's website says declaration of assets is purely on voluntary basis. Assets of Justice BN Agrawal who retired last month are also uploaded on the website.Name of justice HS Bedi is missing from the list of Supreme Court judges whose assets are on the website.©2009...
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Bangladesh eagerly awaits the final verdict in the much extended murder trial of its founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. This comes 34 years after he was killed in a military coup as the Supreme Court is set to pronounce the judgement amidst unprecedented security measures.The security agencies have enforced a tight vigil in the capital and vital installations have been placed elsewhere as they fear sabotage...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has apologised to the Supreme Court for violation of its order to halt construction at various memorial sites of Dalit leaders in Lucknow.The state Chief Secretary tendered the apology in an affidavit filed on Saturday, Oct 31 to the apex court registry.Gupta is facing contempt of court proceedings for violating the Sep 8 order of the Supreme Court.Earlier,...
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Three weeks after she was found hiding in Chennai with her seven-year-old son, Vijayashree Vohra has been ordered to return to America to let a court there decide on her son's custody.The custody battle over Aditya Vohra has been ugly and public. His parents were settled in America when they decided to split up. An American court granted them joint custody. But in 2007, Aditya disappeared with his...
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The Supreme Court has set aside the judgement of the Delhi high court in the bid for the supply of two transmitters invited by Prasar Bharti. Arraycom India Ltd and M/s BECIL were found to be technically qualified. In the financial bid, the offer of Arraycom was for Rs 51.57 crore and that of BECIL was for Rs 47.35. Prasar Bharti found that BECIL’s bid was the lowest. The rival bidder moved the high...
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Facing flak from the opposition after Tamil Nadu agreed in the Supreme Court to refer the Mullaiperiyar dam row to a five member constitution bench, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday hoped the saying "justice delayed is justice denied" would not come true for his state."The state had approached the Supreme Court in December 1998. Eleven years later when all were expecting Tamil Nadu to get justice,...
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Facing flak from the opposition after Tamil Nadu agreed in the Supreme Court to refer the Mullaiperiyar dam row to a five member constitution bench, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday hoped the saying 'justice delayed is justice denied' would not come true for his state."The state had approached the Supreme Court in December 1998. Eleven years later when all were expecting Tamil Nadu to get justice,...
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further questions need to be entertained under the Right to Information Act on the wealth details of the Supreme Court judges posted on its website, Delhi High Court observed on Thursday.But the court said the 1997 resolution passed by the Supreme Court judges for declaring their assets was binding on them as it was part of the self-regulatory mechanism for the judiciary.“There is no obligation to...
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