The Madras high court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Union government to confer the Bharat Ratna on late AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa, saying it does not want to interfere in such matters.
A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur also sought a response on the question as to whether the recovery tribunals are equipped to decide the loan recovery cases within a fixed time frame, stipulated under the law.
The apex court, however, dismissed a PIL filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking a court-monitored fresh probe in the Pandya murder case.
The BJP hailed the order as a "resounding blow to the nefarious designs" of Rahul and the Cong described it as a "body blow to transparency".
The petitioners also sought action against beneficiaries of the alleged commission of Rs 640 crore in the deal.
It also opposed the suggestion that the contributions be transferred to the National Disaster Response Fund.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked aerated drink makers PepsiCo and Coca Cola to file their replies within six weeks on the N K Ganguly Committee report that concluded cola drinks contained pesticide residues.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to soft drink majors Pepsico and Coca Cola on a petition seeking that there should be a disclosure by the companies about the ingredients and chemical composition of the product.
The Bench said "it is a very important issue" and wanted to go through the previous rulings of the apex court on this issue.
A bench comprising Chief Justice R C Lahoti and Justice G P Mathur issued the notice after briefly hearing counsel Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for petitioner Centre for Public Interest Litigation.
SC expressed surprise that no steps were taken for recovery.
In a move that may cause concern to the multi-crore soft drink industry, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking a thorough examination of the contents of soft drinks
The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the government from going ahead with the divestment of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd without Parliament approval.
Most of the recommendations with regard to appointment of judges in high courts were pending with the collegium headed by the CJI, it said.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a Public Interest Litigation challenging the legality of the government's decision to privatise public sector oil firms Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.
A senior Indian Police Service officer in Central Bureau of Investigation is the 'mole' who supplied documents and file notings to advocate Prashant Bhushan on the basis of which 'false and baseless' allegations were made, agency chief Ranjit Sinha claimed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
The petition was filed in 2003 by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up government agencies for not taking action on the basis of taped conversations of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with top politicians, businessmen and others which show various serious matters like cross-border transactions.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed new Central Bureau of Investigation Director Anil Kumar Sinha to take charge of the investigation and prosecution in the 2G scam cases, over three weeks after it had removed his predecessor from the probe following allegations of trying to protect some accused.
A PIL had sought probe into the Essar e-mail leak case.
Observing that if people file an RTI query, they must know who the defaulters are, the bench asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) why the information on defaulters should be withheld
The chronology of events leading to the Supreme Court verdict.
The Reserve Bank of India has submitted a list of big loan defaulters in a sealed cover to the Supreme Court with a submission that disclosing their names may have "adverse impact" for business and may "accentuate failure of business".
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda said the issue raised by the accused needs to be heard before taking up other pleas challenging summoning of 13 witnesses including Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani.
'If there was no sign that Loya suffered a heart attack, then what made the judges who were accompanying him believe that he had a heart attack'
Under attack for allegedly meeting officials of companies accused in 2G scam, Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha on Thursday said that he would recuse himself from the ongoing probe in Coal scam if the Supreme Court ordered so.
The CBI today registered three FIRs and a preliminary enquiry to probe alleged irregularities in Indian Airlines-Air India merger and purchase of 111 aircraft, leasing of planes and giving up of profit-making routes by Air India, causing a loss of thousands of crore of rupees.
Seventeen years after the first plea was made, the Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced the hearing to examine the constitutional validity of the law which makes it mandatory for the Central Bureau of Investigation to take approval of competent authority to probe senior bureaucrats in corruption cases.
"State stands on the position of a loco parentis to the citizens and when there are so many deaths of farmers in the state of Tamil Nadu, it becomes obligatory on the part of the state to express concern and sensitiveness to do the needful and not allow the impecunious and poverty stricken farmers to resign to their fate or leave the downtrodden and the poor to yield to the idea of fatalism.
Two weeks' time given to CBI for filing a fresh status report.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a slew of guidelines on regulation of public advertisements.
The arguments remained inconclusive and would continue on Friday.
In a setback to Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a plea for hearing allegations levelled against him without knowing the name of the whistleblower in a case relating to controversial entries in the visitors' diary at his residence.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to Union Health Minister J P Nadda on a petition seeking a CBI inquiry into various cases of alleged irregularities and corruption in AIIMS raised by then Chief Vigilance Officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi.
The court also allowed Indian Banks' Association, another respondent, to file a response.
'Why should the accused in scams visit the CBI chief so frequently?'
The Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court that charge sheet in the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal involving former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran will be filed shortly as the Attorney General disagreed with the views of its Director Ranjit Sinha to drop the prosecution.
SFIO tried to sift through changed names, cross-holdings in INX Group
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said the issues raised in the plea need 'examination' and issued notice to the Centre, RBI, Central Board of Direct Taxes, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, PwC and the audit firms sharing its brand name.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that averments made against Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha, arising out of entry list at his residence, are "serious" in nature and directed him to respond to the allegations in "black and white".
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