Mohammed Mahboob Alam walks slowly towards a small grave in the corner of a cemetery in northwest Delhi. He is not related to the ten-year-old who was buried there on Saturday. But he cannot stop thinking about him. When a group of 20 people arrived at the cemetery with the child's body, Mr Alam was unnerved by their apparent haste to bury the boy. Mr Alam is on the committee of...
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I won't disclose my assets: KG Balakrishnan by Dakshina Muraleedharan
Former Chief Justic of India KG Balakrishnan does a U-turn on disclosing his assets. Justic Balakrishnan has informed the Inecome Tax Department that he does not want to disclose his assets because it is not related to public welfare in any way. Under intense pressure, former CJI and the current NHRC chief had early this month agreed to publicise details of his assets. The ex-CJI has faced allegations that he has wealth that...
More »Blind Men Of Hindostan by Sheela Reddy
Do we, the Indian middle class, see the corruption within us? I was too busy being corrupt to join Anna Hazare’s camp last week. For four days, I heard nothing but stories of our Tahrir Square-like revolution against the corrupt unfurling right under our noses in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. But it was school admission time and I had some serious palm-greasing, document-fudging, string-pulling, weight-throwing and tout-chasing to do. I had...
More »Shanti Bhushan files complaint over forged CD
“ I've never had any conversation with Mulayam, Amar Singh” ‘Bid to discredit committee constituted to draft Lokpal Bill' Case registered under Section 469 of IPC The Delhi Police have registered a case against an unknown person for allegedly fabricating a defamatory telephonic conversation between Shanti Bhushan, former Law Minister and now co-chairman of the joint committee to draft the Lokpal Bill, and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh and its former general secretary...
More »Timing of release of CD against Shanti Bhushan raises suspicion by J Venkatesan
Speculation on whether contents are intended to tarnish his and his son's image CD released prior to first meeting of joint committee on Lokpal Bill Circulation comes before Supreme Court verdict in Amar Singh tapes case The surreptitious surfacing of a compact disc containing an alleged phone conversation between senior advocate Shanti Bhushan; the former Samajwadi Party general secretary, Amar Singh; and the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, has raised...
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