Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will on Wednesday lead a protest rally against the Narendra Modi government's land bill at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. However, the common man's minister, who in the past turned down security, has asked the Delhi police to keep the media at bay during the rally, said sources.
It has been a gruelling time for nearly 2,000 Delhi Police personnel, including 16 DCPs, protecting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is sitting on a dharna against city police's alleged high-handedness.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday made it clear that reduction of footprints of security forces and phased withdrawal only needs a "courageous statesman" and not referendum.
A PIL had sought probe into the Essar e-mail leak case.
In a sign of reconciliation between warring factions of the Aam Aadmi Party, senior leaders from the Arvind Kejriwal camp met Yogendra Yadav late Monday night and held discussions over several contentious issues, hours after the Delhi Chief Minister's return from Bengaluru.
The AAP on Monday expelled rebel leaders Prashant Bhusan, Yogendra Yadav and two others for anti-party activities and "gross indiscipline".
Contempt should be restricted to the disobedience of orders and rulings. Any failure to obey the court in a dispute that doesn't involve it should alone invite contempt proceedings, observes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Bhushan on August 31 was directed to deposit the fine with the Supreme Court registry by September 15 and failure to comply would entail a three-month jail term and debarment from law practice for three years.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea seeking direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR into the alleged conspiracy to "fix" Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
"We are not inclined to interfere on the decision taken," the apex court said.
Dissident Aam Aadmi Party leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on Monday hit back at the party leadership, claiming that it indulged in "gross violation" of the constitution and accusing national disciplinary committee members Pankaj Gupta and Ashish Khetan of accepting donations from dubious companies and doing a 'paid news' story favouring a company.
Aam Aadmi Party's internal Lokpal, Admiral (retd) L Ramdas, on Saturday said he will not quit the post even though he was asked not to attend the crucial National Council meeting for which he had travelled all the way from Maharashtra.
It is the custom in the top court that a retiring judge, on his last day, is given the honour of sitting with the CJI in the majestic Court no 1.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will pronounce the verdict.
The suspension of Bijaswan MLA came after Kejriwal returned to Delhi wrapping up his four-day visit to poll-bound Punjab.
Additional Director R K Dutta will now head the CBI probe in the 2G spectrum scam after the Supreme Court directed the agency Chief Ranjit Sinha to recuse from the investigation.
The appeals came against orders of the Central Information Commissioner in various cases.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred to the constitution bench a plea raising questions whether the apex court was exempted from disclosing information on appointment of judges and other matters under the Right to Information Act.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has been quizzed and his statement recorded by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with alleged kickbacks made to him and State Trading Corporation employees by some private companies.
Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party government for drawing up a whopping Rs 526 crore advertisement budget, Congress leader Ajay Kumar on Friday compared Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to a "North Korean dictator who is into self-publicity".
As AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal returned home late on Tuesday evening, it was left to senior advocate Shanti Bhushan to go to Tihar jail and convince the jailed leader to sign the personal bail bond to walk out of prison.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court against Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament Prakash Javdekar and Bhupendra Singh Yadav alleging that they tried to impede investigation in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case in which former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah is the main accused.
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".
The order will be passed by a five-judge Constitution bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices NV Ramana, DY Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna on a petition filed by a Supreme Court Secretary-General challenging the January 2010 judgment of the Delhi high court.
'India resembles not just the more turbulent bits of its own past, but other 'managed' democracies, where all institutional strength and independence have been hollowed out to serve political power,' notes Mihir S Sharma.
While reserving the verdict, the apex court had said that the pricing details of Rafale jets could only be discussed after it decides on whether to make it public.
'In its short life, AAP has distinguished itself in many, many, governance spheres.' 'But party democracy is not one of them,' notes Aditi Phadnis.
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
Lok Satta Party's national president Jayaprakash Narayan said here today that his party would not have any electoral tie-up with the Aam Aadmi Party, but contest the forthcoming assembly as well as Lok Sabha elections independently in Andhra Pradesh.
Vishwas also appeared defiant despite the party's gag order of not talking to the media and said he will keep highlighting the mistakes of the Aam Aadmi Party and say what is right in the interest of the country.
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection.
In comments that could stoke a fresh controversy, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has likened Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to mythological demon king Ravan while slamming Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh over Wednesday's attack on the Aam Aadmi Party office in Ghaziabad.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday distanced itself from the views of its senior leader Prashant Bhushan, who has stated that a referendum should be carried out in Kashmir to decide on the deployment of the army to deal with security threats in the Valley.
AAP's Haryana convenor Naveen Jaihind has announced an undisclosed amount as reward for whoever finds the vehicle.
Yadav had moved the top court challenging the decision of Returning Officer to reject his nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, saying it was intended to "give walkover" to PM Modi.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who has promised to give a corruption-free government if voted to power, was among the early bird to cast his ballot in the Delhi assembly election.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the SC that Shahabuddin is a 'class-A history-sheeter who cannot be reformed'.
The situation has arisen second time since the Bharatiya Janata Party government came to power in 2014.
On the last date of hearing, the Maharashtra police had produced additional letters to establish Moist links of the arrested accused even as the petitioners described it as cooked-up evidence.
'I have not imputed any motives and there can be none as the Supreme Court is a great institution, but it can commit errors and citizens must point them out.' 'How else will the highest court correct them?'
