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.
On Thursday, the SC will resume hearing on Mittal's plea challenging the court's summons.
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The Congress questioned the Maharashtra governor for the "arbitrary" allotment of time to the Nationalist Congress Party, the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party to prove support for government formation.
He said the plea pertained to his liberty, which was 'illegally curtailed'.
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 16 rebels, who the Congress alleged are being held captive by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengaluru, also offered to present themselves in the judges' chamber but the court rejected the proposal.
BJP's ally Shiv Sena was not much impressed with the action, saying it is just usual for Pakistan to take such actions for the sake of it following terror incidents in India.
Though there was no clear roadmap, the farmers, belonging to multiple groups, including 30 from Punjab, appeared clear in their resolve, some saying that they would not disperse till the laws were repealed and others that would ensure their voices are heard.
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.
TDSAT had squashed the limit after Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya had questioned TRAI's decision.
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.
Delhi government Thursday told the Supreme Court that 8049 police personnel are deployed for giving protection to VIPs in the national capital at a cost of Rs 341 crore to the exchequer annually.
Apex court said it will decide on it, irrespective of the opinion of government law officers.
Pulling up the government for producing unsigned documents, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know what action has been taken against former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia after tapping her phone on the basis of a complaint against her.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings on all petitions relating to the 2G spectrum allocation scam, pending before the Delhi high Court, on a Central Bureau of Investigation plea.
The apex court on February 2 last year cancelled 122 licences for the 2G spectrum and had directed the DoT to hold fresh auction for them within four months which has been extended by interim orders from time to time.
"You cannot play hide and seek with the court," Justice Suresh Kait said.
'I think there must be some sort of a nexus between the rioters and a section of police officials which resulted in gruesome killings and arson'
Banerjee said she was doing so after consulting leaders of major opposition parties and following 'a favourable court order'.
The Congress on Friday accused the Modi government of "messing up" while dealing with Pakistan on the Pathankot attack probe and playing into its hands on the issue even as the Bharatiya Janata Party countered the charge, saying India's stand on all bilateral issues and talks is clear and has been appreciated.
Gandhi took to Twitter to put out a Sanskrit shloka from the Upanishads and tweeted a picture of Mount Kailash along with it.
The Kerala government on Thursday assured the Supreme Court that it would provide Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan a copy of the charge-sheet in the 1997 ice cream parlour sex scandal, involving the state's top politicians, judicial officers and others.
SC said it would consider asking the operators to pay for using spectrum.
The court said not auctioning even 0.1 per cent of spectrum, for which licenses were cancelled, will not be acceptable
Union ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Mukul Roy, actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan and Bharatiya Janata party leader Vinay Katiyar were among eight candidates who filed their nomination papers on Saturday for the Rajya Sabha biennial polls. The last day for filing of nominations for the March 30 elections is March 19. All the eight candidates filed their papers before the Returning Officers of the state assemblies concerned.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre over leakage of its tapped conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia saying its probe report is hardly satisfactory.
Gay rights activists on Monday submitted in the Supreme Court that criminalising homosexual acts is against constitutional values and law should not interfere when consenting adults are involved.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi government to furnish information on the number of offences committed against women in the national capital every month.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and K S Radhakrishnan, which extended the August 31, 2012 deadline for completing the auction process, made it clear that no court in the country will entertain any plea on this issue of 2G spectrum.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to complete fresh auction of cancelled 122 2G spectrum licences by January 11, 2013 and warned that failure to meet the deadline would invite "contempt" action against erring officials with "exemplary" cost.
2G: SC stays proceedings in all high court cases
The government on Thursday filed a report in the Supreme Court saying it has been unable to find the source which leaked the tapes containing conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and others including Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata.
The report on the Lokpal Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha by Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Public Grievances and Personnel.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea of veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari seeking to maintain confidentiality of court proceedings in the paternity suit of a youth claiming to be his biological son.
The government on Tuesday claimed before the Supreme Court that the Radia tapes broadcast by media organisations were tampered with and the government agencies were not responsible for its leakage.
Government on Thursday said it was "irrevocably" committed to making the proposed Lokpal a constitutional authority, criticising attempts by some people to "mislead" the nation on this issue.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday states to furnish "within 48 hours" details of mercy petitions filed by death row convicts pending with respective Governors, failing which it warned that Home Secretaries of the states concerned would have to appear before it.
In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President.
Criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party for opposing the constitutional status to the Lokpal, the ruling Congress party on Thursday accused the former of suffering from political amnesia, and said the Parliament has the right to make law of India.
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