Appearing for the CBI, Solicitor General, Gopal Subramanium said the high court order was unheard of and in blatant contravention of the Criminal Procedure Code since the agency had already filed the chargesheet in the matter.
The state government in its special leave petition alleged that it did not expect fair and just investigation by the central agency which is busy foisting cases against the functionaries of ruling Trinamool Congress Party.
The bench accepted the plea of Tata's counsel to file the petition later in the day.
Amid the ongoing debate over the Trinamool Congress seeking removal of Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta over his alleged meeting with West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh on Tuesday dropped unannounced at Mehta's residence, but was denied entry.
Unfazed by the Supreme Court order, Madras High Court judge Justice C S Karnan has said that he would "order" lodging an FIR under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) against the two Apex court judges who have directed that he be not given any judicial work.
The Supreme Court on Thursday restrained the Central Bureau of Investigation from initiating criminal proceedings in any court against West Bengal police officers for the March 14 police firing in Nandigram in which 14 persons were killed.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government not to return land to farmers in Singur, that was earlier leased to the Tatas, for now.
The development came after the Calcutta high court refused to pass an interim order on Tata Motors' plea to restrain the state government from distributing from Tuesday land acquired there earlier to set up a company car manufacturing unit.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted another two weeks to the West Bengal government to respond to its notice on a plea by a Park Street gangrape accused against denial of bail to him by the Calcutta high court.
A day after the Rajya Sabha voted for his impeachment, Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta high court on Friday said he would move the Supreme Court if the Lok Sabha also decided on his ouster and ruled out his resignation.
The apex court also forthwith restrained him from undertaking judicial and administrative work.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction for investigation by an independent probe agency like the Central Bureau of Investigation into the March 10 incident where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had sustained leg injury after an alleged attack on her in Nandigram.
A legal battle between divorced NRI parents of a minor girl on Tuesday reached the Supreme Court which ordered the presence of their eight-year-old daughter in court to ascertain whether she would like to go to the US to meet her father. The apex court said the girl's mother will ensure her presence in court on June 4 when it would take up the matter for hearing.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta high court order asking it to launch a fresh probe and register a murder case in the death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman, who was found dead near a railway track.
The fresh appointments are to be made to the Allahabad, Calcutta, Delhi, Rajasthan and the Bombay high courts, among others.
The Supreme Court has refused to heat the bail petition filed by the owner of the Haldiram Group, Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, who has been convicted for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner in Kolkata.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said it was a 'moral victory' after the Supreme Court asked Tata Motors to make its stand clear on its leasehold rights on the land at Singur as it had moved its car plant out of the state.
The Supreme Court has restrained the West Bengal Police from executing an arrest warrant issued by a Darjeeling court against radio jockey Janardhan Nitin Brady, whose comments on Indian Idol Prashant Tamang sparked large-scale violence in Siliguri.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the trial in the Rizwanur Rehman case would not commence till the Calcutta High Court decides a petition filed by industrialist Ashok Todi challenging CBI's decision to chargesheet him in the case. However, the apex court remained silent on the issue of framing of charges in the case in which the investigating agency in its report alleged that Todis used pressure tactics to drive Rizwanur to commit suicide.
The Supreme Court Monday rued the 'general practice' of speakers delaying decisions on pleas seeking disqualification of lawmakers and the subsequent arguments that courts should 'stay away,' while hoping that the West Bengal assembly speaker would decide on such a plea against Mukul Roy who defected to the Trinamool Congress from the Bharatiya Janata Party after the state polls.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea from the BJP seeking a direction to the West Bengal government, state election panel and other functionaries to prepare a comprehensive action plan and deploy sufficient central police forces to ensure free and fair municipal polls in Kolkata.
The Supreme Court ruled in favour of a decision by the Calcutta High Court.
Having declared democracy in danger at a famous press conference in January, the newly sworn-in chief justice's stint of 1 year and 44 days will be keenly watched for what he does to defend this ideal
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to industrialist Ashok Todi accused of abetting the suicide of his son-in-law Rizwanur Rahman. "We are not inclined to entertain the petition," said a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. It also declined the submission of senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Todi, that the Calcutta high court be directed to decide his bail plea before winter vacation.
The transfer plea related to a libel suit filed by a Canadian woman Gwendolyn Berger, whose name figured in the investigations conducted by the authorities after the magazine claimed that the deal was shady.
The nullifying of the NJAC Act has put the spotlight on the Judiciary. Concepts like transparency, being open to change, leading from front, management of perceptions that were reserved for the Executive earlier are now relevant for the Judiciary as well, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has set up four teams, each headed by joint directors Ramnish, Anurag, Vineet Vinayak and Sampat Meena, to probe the political violence which ensued after the victory of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on May 2 in a bitterly fought eight-phase assembly poll in West Bengal.
Last week, a panel of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India ordered that Karnan be transferred to the Calcutta high court. The junior judge reacted that he would fight the order and asked the Chief Justice of India to "not interfere" with his jurisdiction, and also stayed his own transfer order.
Justice Karnan passed a 'suo motu judicial order in the interest of the nation to protect the general public from corruption and unrest'.
Justice Karnan in his response, alleged discrimination and 'social boycott' by companion judges on various grounds including his caste.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta high court's denial for filing of affidavits by her and state Law Minister Moloy Ghatak on their role on the day of arrest of four Trinamool Congress leaders on May 17 by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Narada sting tape case.
When the Chief Justice of India asked about the whereabouts of Justice Karnan, the advocate said he was 'very much in Chennai'.
"What is this? Last time you (West Bengal government) had given an undertaking, which we wanted to record, that the commission will not proceed. You had said that it was not necessary to record in the order. Again you started inquiring," said the bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to expedite hearing on a petition filed by three Birla family members, who have challenged the Calcutta High Court's order that refused them right to object to the purported 1999 'will' of late Priyamvada Birla.
Stock broker Ketan Parekh, arrested in connection with Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.2 billion) scam at Calcutta Stock Exchange, has filed a special leave petition with Supreme Court for bail, his lawyers said on Thursday.\n\n
The Supreme Court asked the Justice Mudgal Committee whether it is willing to further probe Srinivasan and 12 others, including some prominent cricketers, in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the state government, pointed to the members of the committee that has been formed to investigate the incidents and said, "Can you imagine these people have been appointed to collect the data? Is this a BJP investigating committee my Lords?"
The Birla-Lodha fight over the Rs 5000 crore (Rs 50 billion) empire of M P Birla reached the Supreme Court on Friday when the Lodha group approached it challenging a Calcutta high court
The collegium has recommended to the Centre to appoint justices N H Patil and D K Gupta as the chief justices of the Bombay and Calcutta high court.
