Breaking his silence, former Union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he has always been cooperating with the police and is awaiting their report on the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
The court asked the Maharashtra police to file their case diary pertaining to the ongoing investigation in the case by September 24.
"The purpose of this film is only political -- to get some extra mileage in the elections. We believe, it is not just a corrupt practice, but the very launch of the film is motivated," Kapil Sibal told reporters outside the Election Commission.
Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Thaawarchand Gehlot, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Santosh Gangwar, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, BJP national general-secretary Arun Singh and party MP Maneka Gandhi also visited the hospital to know about his wellbeing.
Jaitleysaid Mallya misused his position as an MP to accost him once in Parliament.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari was the chief guest at the event which was also attended by Bhojpuri singer-actor Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua'.
"Considering the facts and circumstances, I am of the view that police custody is justified," the judge said.
Salome Singsit, 39, approached the apex court challenging the decision of Airline Allied Services Ltd, a subsidiary of Air India, alleging that the airline had arbitrarily refused to renew her contract.
The Supreme Court today rejected a plea for disclosure of the annual confidential reports of public servants under the Right To Information Act.
Prithviraj Chavan's statement has created another controversy for the ruling alliance in Maharashtra.
Stung by Jayanthi Natarajan's attack on Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders on Friday rallied behind him and slammed their outgoing "opportunist" colleague, saying she had been removed as environment minister because of 'Jayanthi tax' barb by Bharatiya Janata Party in the run up to Lok Sabha polls.
The apex court said that no permission for prayers would be given for any other temple in Mumbai.
A six-member special team comprising five from the Central Bureau of Investigation and one from the Income Tax department was on Thursday constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the contents of tapped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others.
The Supreme Court on Monday termed as an "eyewash" the explanation given in the affidavits filed by Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh government in connection with the police brutality on a young girl and a woman protesting the rape of minors in the national capital and in Aligarh.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to murder convict M N Das, whose mercy petition was rejected by then President Pratibha Patil. A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi allowed the plea of Das who had approached the apex court for commutation of his death sentence on the ground that the President had taken eleven years to decide his mercy plea.
'Under Section 79 of the IT Act, Facebook is mandated to exercise care. Once you have a duty, you do not have the right to silence; you need to show compliance.'
Over a year after the judgement was reserved, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya rejected the pleas of the telecom companies which pleaded that they be tried in a magisterial court unlike other accused in 2G cases as they have not been charged under Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed condemned prisoner and Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's plea for commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment on ground of delay in deciding his mercy plea.
Strongly disapproving of police protection given to 'all and sundry', including Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly who face no security threat, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and all states to furnish names of the people given the security and the expenditure borne by states on it.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Health Secretaries of the states and UnionTerritories (UTs) to file compliance report on implementation of ban on sale and manufacture of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco.
The Board, which also comprise the state government nominees, told a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that it is high time that a particular class not be discriminated on the ground of 'biological attributes'.
Before jumping off the terrace, she had sent a message to her husband that she would kill herself, police said.
This after high drama in the House over what opposition charged was "intimidation" by the treasury benches to get the motion for sending the amendment to the RTI Act to the select committee rejected.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre on a plea for complete ban on manufacture and sale of gutka, pan masala and other tobacco products in the country.
The number of seats that the state parties will win will be much more than the BJP's, she further claimed.
Several petitions, including those by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
In a relief to the residents of Campa Cola compound in Worli in Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the demolition of buildings and granted five months to flat owners to vacate the premises.
These include Chennai-based Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Ltd and its offshore sister concern.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to Chennai-based Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Ltd and its offshore sister concern on a plea of Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against them for filing a defamation suit in Singapore against him.
Taking strong exception to a police officer slapping a young girl during a recent protest against rape of a minor, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought an explanation from the Delhi police chief on the incident. A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi directed the police Ccmmissioner to file an affidavit to explain why a young girl was beaten up during the protest against the rape of five-year-old in Delhi.
On Thursday, the SC will resume hearing on Mittal's plea challenging the court's summons.
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Patel had challenged the high court order which had dismissed his plea questioning the maintainability of Rajput's election petition.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to former Bihar governor Buta Singh, ex-Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal along with many other serving and retired bureaucrats and Indian Police Service officers for unauthorised occupation of government bungalows in the national capital.
The BJP's remarks came a day after the Congress leaders, led by Sonia Gandhi, met President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted a memorandum demanding resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah for "abdication of duty" during the communal violence in northeast Delhi. She had also reminded the Centre for its 'rajdharma' and protecting the people from all faiths in the country.
One person was killed when a four-storeyed building in the city collapsed in Mumbai on Wednesday following heavy rains, fire brigade sources said. The building Gopal Bhavan, located in Mamletdar Wadi in suburban Malad, caved in following rains.
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Janata Dal-United had not yet decided on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's visit to Gujarat for campaigning for the Assembly polls, the party said.
TDSAT had squashed the limit after Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya had questioned TRAI's decision.
"Very shortly we will come out with a concrete plan," Rao told reporters after meeting the Trinamool Congress president.
