Srilakshmi, the first woman IAS officer held on graft charges, wanted to continue as the CBI’s guest at a heritage mansion but was packed off to prison. The 52-year-old, whose three-day CBI remand had ended today, pleaded with the court to let her stay on at the CBI camp office in the palatial, Nizam-era Dilkhusha guesthouse. The court refused and the 1988 IAS topper was almost in tears as she arrived...
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‘Gujarat police can't be trusted with probe' by Manas Dasgupta
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the investigation into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. Stating that the Gujarat police could not be “relied upon” to conduct an impartial probe, the High Court asked the CBI to consider the case as an “exceptional one having national ramifications.” A Division Bench, comprising Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari, also directed chairman of the High...
More »Congress goes back on inclusion of Group C employees in Lokpal Bill by Smita Gupta
It also goes back on new method of appointment of CBI Director A day after the Parliamentary Standing Committee attached to the Union Ministry of Personnel finalised its report on the Lokpal Bill, Congress MPs forced the holding of an emergency meeting on Thursday to go back on two key decisions taken on Wednesday: the ruling party MPs on the Standing Committee have now withdrawn the assent they had given to...
More »Group C government employees out of Lokpal's ambit
-The Economic Times After agreeing to inclusion of Group C government employees within the ambit of Lokpal, the standing committee on law and justice examining the bill recommended its exclusion from the proposed ombudsman's jurisdiction. The standing committee, which completed its work on Wednesday after deliberating on various points contained in the draft Lokpal bill, had asked BJP, Left and other members to submit their dissenting notes to the panel. Members, therefore, were...
More »Lokpal panel red rag for Anna
-The Telegraph The dissent-riven report of the parliamentary standing committee on the Lokpal bill is set to recommend exclusion of the Prime Minister from the proposed anti-graft authority’s ambit, a decision bound to intensify the government’s tussle with Team Anna. No consensus could be reached on the question of the Prime Minister’s inclusion at the last meeting of the committee. While most members felt that the country’s top executive office should not...
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