The Lok Adalat cannot entertain any applications where judicial orders are required as proceedings before it are not judicial in nature, the Kalaburagi bench of the Karnataka high court ruled recently.“It may be a fact that a judicial officer presides over the Lok Adalat as a conciliator along with an advocate-conciliator. But such a judicial…
PUNE: “Spirit can overcome challenges,” said Lt Col Dwarakesh after winning gold and silver medals in the 23rd national para swimming championships held between March 29 and 31 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.Lt Col Dwarakesh’s tenacity and perseverance have helped him add another feather in his cap, as the Army’s only blind active-duty officer clinched the…
GUWAHATI: The election officer of Imphal East district in Manipur has instructed the police to take “legal action” against an Independent candidate running for the Inner Manipur Lok Sabha seat for allegedly violating the election model code of conduct by threatening to kill chief minister N Biren Singh during a live TV discussion on April…
AHMEDABAD: After a Palanpur court convicted him in a 1996 drug planting case, former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has urged the Gujarat high court to direct the state govt and jail authorities not to shift him to a central jail, citing threats from dreaded criminals and terrorists that he had nabbed during service.The state govt…
NEW DELHI: NSA Ajit Doval stressed the need for perpetrators of cross-border terrorism to be dealt with effectively and expeditiously, as he underlined the threat from India-focused terror groups like LeT and JeM, as well as IS, Al Qaeda and its affiliates.Speaking at a meeting of the SCO in Astana, Doval took a swipe at…
NEW DELHI: A criminal committing murder or a politician indulging in “terrorism” can’t claim immunity from arrest on the ground that elections are near, Enforcement Directorate (ED) told Delhi high court on Wednesday.Opposing any relief to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on his plea challenging the legal validity of his arrest, ED also maintained that…
CHENNAI: After a gap of more than 33 years, the freed convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case – V Sriharan alias Murugan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar – landed in Colombo on Wednesday morning, and later proceeded to their hometown Jaffna.On arrival from Chennai at 11am, Sri Lankan immigration officials questioned them for about three…
CJI D Y Chandrachud, along with his father Justice Y V Chandrachud, who was CJI for the longest-ever tenure of seven-and-a-half years, are the first father-son duo to head the Indian judiciary. Chandrachud Jr has so far twice overruled his father’s judgments.CJI Chandrachud, while ruling that right to privacy was part of right to life…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, governed by bitter political rivals BJP and TMC, displayed spectacular bonhomie in the Supreme Court on Wednesday when it came to controlling the revenue-rich liquor industry and pleaded for ousting central govt’s role by arguing that when all kinds of alcohols are intoxicating liquor, constitutionally states alone would…
GUWAHATI: A senior CRPF officer was prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre on Tuesday, two weeks after a police complaint was lodged against him for allegedly harassing a woman at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport in Guwahati.The chief airport officer of LGBI Airport had on March 18 submitted a complaint to DCP (Guwahati…
