The Supreme Court bench observed that it could not intervene in this case at this point of time and that the probe had already commenced.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Tamil Nadu unit chief L Murugan was on Friday detained at Tiruttani near Chennai by the police when he tried to embark on a statewide 'Vel Yatra', defying a ban.
In a big shot in the arm for the YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, a Central Bureau of Investigation court in Hyderabad on Monday granted conditional bail to its president and Member of Lok Sabha YS Jaganmohan Reddy in disproportionate assets case.
'The court came to a conclusion using one person's case... Based on that one case, the term "rampant misuse" was used as if it is a generalisation.' 'If one in 10 cases turns out to be false, is it possible to call the Act a charter for blackmail or charter for personal vengeance?' 'Is there any Act either in India or anywhere in the world where there are no false cases?'
It was a major set back for YSR congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy as the Andhra Pradesh high court refused to entertain his plea to stay his appearance before the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the illegal assets case.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Congress leader N D Tiwari -- to stop the Delhi high court from ordering him to undergo a DNA test -- to prove his paternity in a case filed by Rohit Shekhar. The apex court ordered the former Andhra Pradesh governor to give his blood sample for a DNA test.
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its displeasure and pulled up the government for its casual handling of the "complex" and "sensitive" issue of 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central educational institutions such as IITs.
The former India fast bowler claimed that Delhi Police 'continuously tortured' him in custody to extract confession of his involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal.
The apex court observed that the conduct of Sreesanth, facing a life ban, in the entire episode was 'not good'.
While the company will gain from enhanced scale and size following the merger with Mahindra Satyam, its ability to bag large deals will be a key growth driver.
SC for status quo on AP reservation for Muslims
The bench referred to the rising vacancies of judges in the high courts and the increasing number of pending cases.
Justice V V S Rao refused to stay the show-cause notice issued to Jayalalithaa by the mandal revenue officer of Qutubullahpur on January 24, 2007, and dismissed the writ petition on the ground that moving the court was premature.
Four BJP leaders and former Supreme Court judge S Abdul Nazeer, who was part of the Constitution bench that upheld the archaeological report on Ayodhya, were among six new faces appointed as Governors on Sunday.
Of the 10 accused in the case, B Suryanarayana Raju, who is Raju's brother, and T Srinivas, a former auditor of PricewaterhouseCoopers, had been granted bail by different courts earlier.
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday appointed Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a Bihar cadre Indian Police Service officer, as the fourth chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the Ishrat Jahan encounter, while coming down heavily on the Centre for adopting a "causal approach" in the case.
With some variations, all regional political formations, whether in power presently or out of it, share some common features: Tight family control of the political apparatus, key members in elected or appointed positions, obvious wealth but not quite known sources of income, and family factionalism, sometimes open and bitter, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation plea, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma on Tuesday cancelled the bails and asked all six persons to surrender by November 8.
The Andhra Pradesh government heaved a sigh of relief on Friday over the Telangana agitation with the Supreme Court staying the high court order which directed paramilitary forces to be moved out of Osmania university, nerve-centre of the Telangana agitation.
It is the custom in the top court that a retiring judge, on his last day, is given the honour of sitting with the CJI in the majestic Court no 1.
In response to a public interest litigation filed by three Telugu Desam Party leaders, seeking penal action against former Congress member of Parliament YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for alleged corruption, the Andhra Pradesh high court on Tuesday issued notices to him, the Union government and several other respondents.
The richest member of the Lok Sabha and YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy may be looking at tough days ahead. The Central Bureau of Investigations on Tuesday submitted its report to the Andhra Pradesh high court after a preliminary inquiry into growing assets of the young member of Parliament from Kadapa.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing into alleged disproportionate assets of YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, is likely to submit its preliminary probe report to Andhra Pradesh High Court on July 26, a senior official said on Sunday.
In a relief to Telangana Telugu Desam Party MLA A Revanth Reddy, the prime accused in the cash-for-vote case, the Hyderabad high court on Tuesday granted bail to him and two others accused in the case.
A case has been registered against the Praja Rajyam party founder and actor Chiranjeevi for conducting road shows beyond 2200 hours at Narasaraopet town here, police said.
Activists from Andhra Pradesh are gearing up to take the cudgels on behalf of Jiten Marandi, the tribal activist and cultural artist of Jharkhand, who along with three others was awarded the death sentence in Chilkari massacre case.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah and leaders of all political parties except Bharatiya Janata Party have hailed Thursday's interim orders of the three judge bench of Supreme Court allowing the state government to continue with the 4 per cent quota for 14 backward groups of the community.
Besides issuing notices to Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which is spearheading the stir, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S Mukhopadhaya also issued notices to the registrar general of the high court and the state bar council and sought their replies on the plea.
The judges described the convict as a 'menace to society' and said rising crime against women should be tackled on all fronts.
The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Deepak Verma and Justice Dalbeer Bhandari issued notices to the five accused on a petition filed by CBI.
Andhra Pradesh High court on Monday reserved orders on the bail petition filed by B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in multi-crore Satyam Computers accounting scam.
The new chief minister, if from the Congress, will have little or no time for political administration, to ensure that he does not lose the voter's goodwill even before the Lok Sabha polls. He can count only on one thing. That the BJP may not want to upset him too early lest an early failure should become an added problem for the party in all the polls to follow, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Andhra Pradesh high court's order for a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the massive assts of YS Jaganmohan Reddy has plunged his fledgling YSR Congress party into confusion. The latest development may even lead to desertions from Jagan's camp.
YSR Congress President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Andhra Pradesh High Court order for a preliminary probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into alleged disproportionate assets accumulated by him.
In a major setback to the Praja Rajyam party of filmstar Chiranjeevi in Andhra Pradesh, the Election Commission of India has rejected its request for a common election symbol on the ground that the party has not contested even a single election so far.
The superintendent of Taloja jail has just been transferred. Does that signal a more human phase in prison for the Bhima Koregaon accused? asks Jyoti Punwani.
Governors must be impartial, fair, and above narrow politics to uphold the values and spirit of the Constitution. But in a rapidly changing political culture where the unstated rule is to crush the Opposition, such values have no meaning. At stake are Constitutional values, federalism and governance, asserts Ramesh Menon.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court judge Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy put in his papers in the wake of the prevailing situation in the court following the agitation by Telangana lawyers but there was suspense whether he has withdrawn his resignation.
IT firm Mahindra Satyam is likely to approach the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the Rs 2,114 crore (Rs 21.14 billion) income tax demand raised by the I-T Department.
Five hardcore Maoists, whose release was sought for release of the abducted Malkangiri district collector and an engineer, on Monday moved the Orissa high court for bail after their plea for the same had been rejected by a lower court.
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