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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Patna High Court today dropped the contempt of court petition against former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, leader of the opposition in the state Assembly following her written apology.Rabri Devi submitted her written apology before a Division Bench of the Court of Justice Shiv Kirti Singh and justice Shyam Kishore Sharma after which the court dropped the contempt petition.Earlier one Ashutosh Ranjan...
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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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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has tendered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court for violation of its order halting all further construction at various memorial sites of Dalit leaders in Lucknow.The state chief secretary tendered the apology in an affidavit filed on Saturday to the apex court registry.Gupta is facing contempt of court proceedings for violating the Sep 8 order...
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Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has tendered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court for violation of its order halting all further construction at various memorial sites of Dalit leaders in Lucknow.The state chief secretary tendered the apology in an affidavit filed Saturday to the apex court registry.Gupta is facing contempt of court proceedings for violating the Sep 8 order of the Supreme...
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Karnataka High Court's Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran has lost his race to the Supreme Court, at least for the present.Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan is all set to administer the oath of office to four other chief justices of various high courts. Their names were proposed to the government for appointments to the apex court, along with Justice Dinakaran.The four chief justices who will be sworn-in...
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Karnataka High Court's Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran has lost his race to the Supreme Court, at least for the present.Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan is all set to administer the oath of office to four other chief justices of various high courts. Their names were proposed to the government for appointments to the apex court, along with Justice Dinakaran.The four chief justices who will be...
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government has decided to raise court fee in the Supreme Court. According to highly placed sources in the Union Law Ministry, the government finds the rates of court fee, which were fixed over four decades ago way back in 1966, absurd and abysamlly low.At present Rs 250 has to be paid for filing an Special Leave Petition (SLP) (civil) as court fee in the Supreme Court while in case of a criminal SLP...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has tendered anunconditional apology to the Supreme Court for violation of its order haltingall further construction at various memorial sites of Dalit leaders inLucknow.The state chief secretary tendered the apology in anaffidavit filed Saturday to the apex court registry.Gupta is facingcontempt of court proceedings for violating the September 8 order...
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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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