The RSS-inspired weekly Organiser has come out against granting legal validity to same sex marriage, an issue being heard by the Supreme Court, and argued that the Indic perspective should be central to any deliberation on marital topics.
The Haryana government has filed in the Supreme Court the Justice S N Dhingra commission's inquiry report that relates to alleged irregularities in land deals, including some linked to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.
Justice S N Dhingra quashed the trial court order of July 6, 2009, taking cognisance of the chargesheet filed against two journalists, Anirudh Bahal and Suhasini Raj
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to quash criminal proceedings against former Bharatiya Janata Party president Bangaru Laxman who was purportedly caught on camera accepting money from fictitious arms dealers in the infamous Tehelka expose.
In a relief to Andhra Pradesh Governor N D Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a paternity suit by a youth who had claimed that the veteran politician is his biological father.Justice S N Dhingra said that the suit filed by Rohit Shekhar is not maintainable and allowed the plea of Tiwari, 84, who had sought dismissal of the petition. Shekhar had claimed that he was born out of an intimate relationship between his mother Ujjwala Sharma and Tiwari.
The Delhi high court on Friday rejected the plea of Ansal brothers, facing trial in the Uphaar fire tragedy case, to place additional written submissions before the trial court hearing the matter.
The Delhi high court has ruled that outsourcing units cannot be clubbed with each other or the company outsourcing work to them for the purpose of Employees Provident Fund.
The convict committed the offence on May 3, 1995 when the victim had come to his house at Nehru Nagar in South Delhi. There were three other children present in the house on that day but the priest sent the eldest one aged seven years, out.
A Delhi court had on November 23 sentenced Sushil Ansal along with his brother Gopal -- the owners of Uphaar cinema hall -- to two-year jail term for causing death by negligent act.
The court asked the Delhi police to complete their investigations within 60 days. The court further directed that the investigating agency should not single out some people for the probe and leave MPs out of it.
The Delhi High Court on Monday extended the police protection to the daughter and son-in-law of Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi in the capital for further two weeks in the wake of delay in getting security for them in Hyderabad.
In a Facebook post Vadra has said that all allegations being levelled against him are baseless.
Justice S N Dhingra Commission, which was set up to probe into grant of land licences to some companies including that of Robert Vadra's in Gurgaon during the Congress rule in Haryana, on Thursday sought six weeks more time to submit its report hours before the deadline was to end.
Insisting that all laws were followed in a "completely transparent manner", Vadra said, "Neither me nor anyone associated with me has anything to hide."
The BJP had made the land deals a major poll issue in 2014, alleging that Vadra benefited through questionable land use permissions granted by the earlier Congress government in the state.
The Dhingra commission had probed alleged irregularities in the grant of land licences to a firm owned by Vadra and submitted its 182-page report to Khattar on August 31, 2016.
Khattar noted that the court has not given permission to make the report of the commission public.
Wouldn't have used 182 pages for report if there were no irregularities, said Justice Dhingra.
The court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed
Son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra said he was being "singled out" and "lies" were spread about him.
Commissions of inquiry are potentially powerful instruments to fix responsibility on public functionaries, but everything possible has been done to blunt this instrument, says Dr Madhav Godbole, retired Union home secretary.
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