The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its helplessness in passing directions to the government to check the unprecedentent rise in prices of essential goods, including sugar, to bring them within the reach of comman man.
The apex court passed the direction in response to submissions made by the petitioner D K Garg, an advocate, who had accused the Central government of inaction in dealing with the racial attacks on Indian students in Australia and Canada.
According to the petitioner, Mayawati, being a school teacher, must be asked to explain how she has acquired those assets worth Rs 41 crore within 3 years.
Best Bakery key witness Zaheera Sheikh, who was handed down a one-year imprisonment by the Supreme Court for committing contempt by lying before it, Monday moved the apex court seeking reduction of her sentence.
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