Traffic Ramaswamy alleged that the statement made by Karunanidhi was aimed at scandalising the court and denigrate the judiciary.
Advocate Mukul Sinha of JSM, representing a section of riot victims, said that Justice Mehta, who was appointed to the riot panel in place of late Justice K G Shah, had granted bail to Babu Bajrangi by his order dated October 19, 2002."The interesting thing in Justice Mehta's order is that it does not cite any reason for granting bail to a prime accused and two others in the Naroda Patia case," said Sinha.
The Army was kept on stand-by as violence erupted in Darjeeling Hills after ruling GNLF leader K G Gurung was grievously injured in an alleged attack by rival GJMM activists on Friday.
The court dismissed a petition claiming oaths taken in the name of Allah were done so for publicity and were constitutionally invalid.
"You cannot give arms to somebody and allow him to kill," the Supreme Court on Monday said, while taking a serious note of a petition alleging that the Chattisgarh government was allegedly arming civilians involved in Salwa Judum movement to fight Naxals.
The Court dismissed the appeal filed by Dayanand Rayu Mandrekar and Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar against the Bombay High Court verdict.
While reserving the verdict, the Bench also comprising Justices H K Sema, A R Lakshmanan, P K Balasubramaniyan and D K Jain, asked the contesting parties to file written submissions by Friday.
As the political turmoil lingered on with the ruling coalition making frenetic efforts to win back rebels who have pushed it to the brink of collapse, assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar on Monday announced the confidence motion sought to be moved by Kumaraswamy would be taken up at 11 am on July 18.
The bail plea of actor Sanjay Dutt will be heard by the Supreme Court on November 20.
The RJD's counsel and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani told a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan that "merit based upon genetic accident is being concretised by a few marks in the examination. But merit cannot be the basis for entry into public services. Merit cannot be a benchmark".
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case to appeal against their conviction and sentence without filing the copy of the impugned judgment of the TADA court. The exemption from filing the certified copy of the TADA court judgment was granted when the petitioner pleaded before the apex court that it would not be possible to file the appeals soon, as it will take time to get the copies of the judgment typed and photocopied.
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed annoyance over the delay in providing relief to Narmada dam oustees saying the issue had not moved an inch forward in the last one year. "Today, the position is that we have not moved an inch forward," a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said referring to its April 23, 2007 order in which it had asked the Madhya Pradesh Government to clarify the factual position on relief and rehabilitation which was objected to by NBA.
He asserted that the BJP does not carry out any action with a vindictive approach.
A person cannot take oath in the name of any particular God or deity but merely affirm in the name of God or his own conscience.
A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and R V Raveendran said that in case the petitions could not be disposed off by the said date, the high court can pass an interim order on the issue.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan refused to give an early hearing to the petition filed by a Pune-based Ganesh mandal, which pleaded that noise level up to 40 decibels be allowed.
What Dr Singh said at a judicial conference in New Delhi.
The two constitutional heads gave vent to their feelings on a common platform -- a conference of chief ministers and chief justices of High Courts at the Vigyan Bhavan -- in the presence of several legal luminaries.
The pix was allegedly shot by a hidden camera when she was lodged in a Bhopal jail.
Supreme Court has put a halt to proceedings against RPL in the Gujarat high court, following a PIL filed against Reliance Power's upcoming IPO.
TVS was represented in court by K Parasaran, Mukul Rohtagi and Dushyant Dave, among others. C A Sundaram appeared for BAL.
It also questioned the motive behind filing the PIL and asked the petitioner to file the detailed of the land owner's who have been affected by the acquisition.
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for possessing illegal arms in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was on Monday granted interim bail by the Supreme Court.
Senior advocate Fali S Nariman mentioned the matter before a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which agreed to his plea for hearing Dutt's bail application on August 10
"If the court feels that the creamy layer be excluded and says so, the Centre will obey," Solicitor General G E Vahanvati said before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
"It is better to have some guidelines whether these types of PILs can be entertained," a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.
"We are not bound by the two-judge bench order," a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said, referring to the order of Justices A K Mathur and Markandey Katju, who had stated that the apex court, in several judgments in the past, had interfered by going into the domains of executive and legislature.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the state governments on the controversial issue of appointment of tainted persons as ministers.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear on July 31 the Centre's application seeking vacation of the stay on the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.
The application was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which decided to hear it on Tuesday.
Ghule and Vichare were arrested by the CBI on October 8, 2004 for their alleged involvement in the multi-crore stamp paper racket.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran sought a response from the state government after the former Bollywood actress claimed that she would not get a fair trial in Bhopal.
The court said it will hear all appeals filed by the convicts along with that of Dutt next Tuesday and apply the same parameter for granting bail. The court asked the CBI to provide in tabular form the offence and sentences awarded to different convicts.
Part research being farmed out to medical colleges, universities to cut cost and time.
JetLite is the new brand name of Lucknow-based airline Air Sahara after Jet Airways acquired it for Rs 1,450 crore in April this year.
The Apex court, however, agreed to hear the Centre's application on other sealing-related matters on February 2.
The proposed masterplan 2021 envisages mixed land use, which would cover all the roads protected under the notification.
"Why not straight away come to preliminary inquiry instead of scrutinising...," the bench observed, adding: "Instead of a comprehensive report, we should have the action taken report."
The Supreme Court has strongly deplored the practice of banks and financial institutions using 'goondas' and musclemen to recover loans from alleged defaulters.
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