<p>Kapil Sibal reacts to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s call for social harmony.<br></p> NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday took a dig at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s Vijayadashmi speech and asked if PM Modi is listening.Bhagwat, in presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and…
NEW DELHI: Senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Tuesday made an impassioned plea to stop live streaming of Supreme Court‘s suo motu proceedings on the rape-murder incident at R G Kar Hospital saying judges’ comments on the highly emotive issue results in besmirching reputations of lawyers appearing for West Bengal government.Sibal told a bench of Chief…
NEW DELHI: In a setback to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira, Supreme Court dismissed their pleas to quash ED summonses in a case of alleged illegal mining in Eastern Coalfields Ltd and held that an accused cannot claim protection under Article 20(3) of the Constitution at the stage of summoning by…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday responded to vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar‘s criticism of the term ‘symptomatic malaise‘ in a Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) resolution after the incident at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.Criticising the SCBA president for his wording, Dhankhar took issue with Sibal’s description of the horrific tragdy…
NEW DELHI: If reckless circulation of half-truths, videos of the deceased, and revealing of her identity in social and electronic media had forced the Supreme Court to order their deletion on Tuesday, two days later it found itself in the middle of a banter between senior advocate Kapil Sibal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta.Sibal on…
NEW DELHI: In a scathing critique of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has stirred controversy by claiming that the acronym stands for “Pradhan Mantri ki Lal Ankh” (PM’s glare).Speaking with ANI, Sibal questioned the efficacy and fairness of the PMLA, asserting that it deviates from its intended purpose…
