The Supreme Court today vacated a 2010 Gauhati High Court order that banned recruitment of elementary school (lower and upper primary) teachers in Assam. This will pave the way for recruitment of some 1,00,000 teachers in the state. The high court had on March 5, 2010, restrained the state from recruiting teachers on a petition that challenged illegal appointments of 3,813 (3,147 in lower primary and 666 in upper primary schools) teachers...
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SIT finds no evidence against Modi in Zakia case by Prashant Dayal
The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) on Wednesday gave a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi over allegations of his involvement in the 2002 riots. In its final report submitted to the metropolitan court, the SIT has filed a closure summary against Modi and 62 others accused by Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. The Supreme Court had asked the SIT to probe Jafri's allegation...
More »PM seeks AG's opinion on 2G judgment
-The Times of India Amid growing worries about the repercussions of the Supreme Court order cancelling 2G licences for business sentiment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked for an analysis of the judgment. Sources said Singh has asked attorney general G E Vahanvati to brief him on all possible implications of the judgment. The PM's curiosity about the ramifications of the judgment coincides with the view in a section of the government that...
More »Fresh petitions filed in Zakia Jafri case
-PTI A magisterial court on Thursday issued notices to Supreme Court-appointed SIT after social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha filed two separate applications seeking the copies of the SIT report filed in the Zakia Jafri case. The court of metropolitan magistrate M S Bhatt issued notices to the SIT and posted the hearing to Feb 13. The SIT on Wednesday filed a closure report in the sealed cover on the complaint of...
More »Final hearing of death-row convict's plea on Thursday by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for final hearing on Thursday a Special Leave Petition filed by death-row convict Mahendra Nath Das, whose mercy petition was rejected by the President after an inordinate delay of 12 years and whose plea for commutation to life imprisonment on this ground was dismissed by the Gauhati High Court. A Bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar, without passing any order on his...
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