-The Indian Express Three decisions by the apex court return the power to make policy to the executive The Supreme Court's decision on Friday to set aside the Orissa high court order against allocation of an Iron ore mine to steel major Posco - it has asked the Centre to examine objections and take a final decision - follows two other major court decisions. Early this month, the court dismissed a PIL...
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Posco mining licence: SC puts the ball in Centre's court
-PTI The Supreme Court today set aside the Orissa High Court order which had quashed state government's petition to allot Iron ore licence to South Korean steel major Posco in Khandadhar hills in Sundergarh district for a multi-crore steel plant. A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha asked the Centre to consider all the objections raised by various parties pertaining to the mega steel plant and take a decision. The court was...
More »SC tells Centre to decide on mining licence to Posco
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Centre will decide if South Korean steel maker Posco will get Iron ore for its steel plant in Odisha. The Supreme Court on Friday quashed Orissa high court's order which had set aside state govt's petition to allot Iron ore licence to Posco in Khandadhar hills. The apex court referred the matter to the Centre asking it to consider all objections raised by various parties against allotment...
More »A tale of two verdicts
-The Hindu The Supreme Court's verdict last week quashing the President's rejection of a mercy petition by Mahendra Nath Das, who was to hang for a gruesome murder, shows a salutary approach to the question of whether a prolonged delay in disposing pleas for clemency should not be a ground for commuting death sentences to life terms. The court took note of the 12-year delay prior to the rejection of Das's...
More »Trail of death in chit fund collapse -Falguni Banerjee & Sanjib Chakraborty
-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined...
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