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…
MUMBAI: Observing that her absence is hampering the court proceedings and her presence is required to record her final statement, a special court on Wednesday directed the NIA to verify the health condition of BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur.She failed to appear before the court to record her final statement as an accused in the…
RAIPUR: Security forces found three more bodies of Maoists from Tuesday’s shootout site in Gangaloor area of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh‘s Bastar belt, bringing the death toll of insurgents to 13. No security personnel were wounded, officials said Wednesday. The gunfight began at 6am and lasted 14 hours. Bastar range IG P Sundarraj confirmed that three…
BENGALURU: A 51-year-old man from Mysuru attempted to die by suicide by slitting his throat with a knife inside the Karnataka high court on Wednesday. The incident unfolded around 1.15 pm in courtroom no. 1 where a division bench of Chief Justice NV Anjaria and Justice HB Prabhakra Shastri, who was due to retire later…
NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry has cancelled the foreign funding licence of at least five more NGOs over alleged violation of provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, and Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011, sources told TOI on Wednesday.The NGOs whose registrations under FCRA have been cancelled are CNI Synodical Board of Social…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that high courts should refrain from interfering with a trial court order if there is no perversity of fact and law in the verdict. It further said that a person should not be convicted merely on the ground of suspicion no matter how strong it is.In a relief granted…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday approved the expulsion of party leader Sanjay Nirupam for 6 years after complaints of indiscipline and anti-party statements.This comes after the Congress had dropped Nirupam from the list of star campaigners in Maharashtra and announced that action will be taken against him for his remarks against the…
