CHENNAI: Twelve years after a trial court had allowed the closure of a corruption case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister and expelled AIADMK functionary O Panneerselvam, Madras high court reversed the order on Tuesday, thereby reviving the case.Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who had initiated suo motu revision proceedings against the closure, passed an order…
NEW DELHI: Observing that rigorous bail provisions in statutes like PMLA, anti-terror law UAPA and NDPS Act cannot become a ‘tool’ to keep an undertrial accused in jail for unreasonably long time, Supreme Court on Thursday held that the requirement of expeditious disposal of cases must be read into these statutes as inordinate delay in…
NEW DELHI: A day after the AIADMK insinuated that the ruling DMK is covertly working with BJP under a “secret pact”, the DMK supremo MK Stalin on Monday cleared the air. The Tamil Nadu chief minister outright rejected the rumors of any secret tie up with the saffron party, saying he would never compromise on…
NEW DELHI: Axis my India exit polls predicts the DMK- INDIA alliance in Tamil Nadu to get 33-37 seats, and the BJP-NDA is expected to open its account with around 2-4 seats. Thirty-nine Lok Sabha seats from Tamil Nadu went to polls on April 19 in the first phase of the general election. The EC…
