It gave five days to an Ahmedabad magistrate and three lawyers involved in the 'cash for arrest warrant' scam to give their replies.
The issue started when an unsuccessful candidate approached the Central Administrative Tribunal after he was not selected in the police force.
Five months after the probe into the Rs 30,000 crore stamp paper scam was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the agency to complete the investigations in three months.
Following allegations that the UPA government was trying to dilute the fodder scam and income tax cases against Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, the SC sought 'every possible' detail of proceedings in these cases.
Vishakha, a student in a Sarvodaya Public School in a Uttar Pradesh village, was lured by the accused. Her body was later found in a sugarcane field.
The court said the Taj Mahal would remain open to public during moonlit nights as per schedule.
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A Bench comprising Justice S B Sinha and Justice S H Kapadia took a serious view of the non-allocation of funds by the 12th Finance Commission to enable the continuance of the FTCs.
'She is not a criminal. There has to be some fairness in the prosecution of persons,' the chief justice observed.
A Bench comprising Justice S B Sinha and Justice S H Kapadia told Solicitor General G E Vahanvati that the court was given the impression that the FTCs, set up to dispose of long-pending criminal cases, would continue for another five years.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the date of birth of a person entered in a horoscope can never be given primacy over the date of birth mentioned in his school leaving certificate.
A bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal, Justice S B Sinha and Justice S H Kapadia said this during hearing of an application filed by Amicus Curiae Harish Salve seeking compensation for the Gujarat riots victims.
An NGO - Citizens for Justice and Peace - wants the cases pertaining to the massacre of 110 people in Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya to be transferred outside the state.\n\n
The notice was issued on application alleging that the state had suppressed facts pertaining to grant of bail to the accused in various post-Godhra riot case.
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The Taj will, however, be open for public viewing in the night only for three months.
The court made it clear that 'it would not be open to the state governments or the Union territories to delay the implementation of the scheme'.
The government said the court could not have done it as it was not an issue before it.
Feroz Bharucha on what the Bombay high court judgment, which decriminalised the possession of beef even while upholding the ban on slaughter, means.
The two addressed a press conference in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and also performed at the Concord-2002-India-Pak show.
The Supreme Court on Friday ended the legal challenge to the government's decision to drastically reduce the admission fee to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management by disposing of a petition on the issue.
A magistrate allegedly issued warrants against the President of India and the Chief Justice of India in lieu of Rs 40,000.
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Imran Mohammed Salim Dawood, a resident of West Yorkshire in UK, alleges he and his relatives were cornered by a mob on February 28, a day after the train carnage incident, and four of them, including three British nationals, were killed.
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The Supreme Court will go into the IIM fee cut issue as the government has declined to give a written undertaking not to interfere with the autonomy of the management schools.
The industry feels that prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can go up in the range of 5-15 per cent.
The Union government on Friday made it clear before the Supreme Court that it is not contemplating filing objections before the European Patent Office to question grant of patent on a variety of wheat to the Monsanto.
