Jaitley and two others were held guilty of corruption in a 2000-01 case related to a purported defence deal. Special CBI Judge Virender Bhat also awarded four-year jail terms to Jaitley's former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General S P Murgai (retd) in the case.
A division bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma while declining to concede the plea made by the Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra posted the matter for arguments to April 17.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
The government apprehended that the international drug mafia might use such people as conduits if they are released.\n
A division of Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice H R Malhotra asked the Health and IB ministries to respond to the notices by September 30.
The petition says that the ban is violative of the fundamental right to speech and expression.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre to explain why it was not implementing Conditional Access System for watching satellite TV channels in the country despite there being a Central legislation for it.
The Delhi HC, hearing a petition from an AIDS-infected Swiss woman, wanted to know from the government why terminally ill foreign prisoners should not be released.
The Tiger Shroff-Disha Patani starrer saw an outstanding opening weekend.
With the Gauhati high court holding as unconstitutional the setting up of Central Bureau of Investigation, the agency on Friday sought urgent action from the government on the matter.
The hits and misses of the week.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
A day after the Gauhati high court order held as unconstitutional the setting up of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the government said it will appeal against the verdict.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's decision to go the whole-hog against the Supreme Court's verdict -- which recently upheld the constitutionality of Section 377 criminalising homosexuality -- is not very typical of how the grand old party handles such issues.
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