-The Economic Times The Supreme Court has pulled up the Prime Minister's Office for taking 16 months to decide on an application from Janata Party PresidentSubramaniam Swamy to prosecute then telecom minister A Raja. However, a bench comprising Justices AK Ganguly and GS Singhvi appeared to absolve Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of any personal blame on the ground that he could not be expected to go into details of every case before...
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SC public servant trial thrust
-The Telegraph The Supreme Court today said a public servant facing corruption charges need not be heard before the competent authority decides on sanctioning prosecution. “…the person for whose prosecution the sanction is sought is not required to be heard before a decision in the matter. What is required to be seen is whether the facts placed before it, which, in a given case, may include the material collected by the complainant...
More »Can't deny residence at marital home on mere allegations: Court
—PTI A woman cannot be denied her right to residence in the house of her in-laws or husband under the law against domestic violence on mere allegation that she is having an extra-marital affair, a Delhi court has observed. “Simply because the petition for divorce is filed against the spouse and the husband alleges that his wife has relations with another person, the wife does not become disentitled to right of residence,...
More »Clean chit to PM, not PMO by Samanwaya Rautray
The uneasy head that wears the Prime Minister’s crown has been given a clean chit but not the bureaucrats. The Supreme Court today acknowledged that a Prime Minister could not be expected to look into “minute details” of every case placed before him but launched a blistering attack on officials of the PMO and the law ministry for failing to apprise Manmohan Singh of the gravity of the charges against A....
More »To work & back to Tihar every day by Imran Ahmed Siddiqui
Behave well, step out of jail. Select inmates of Tihar jail can now work outside the high-security walls of Asia’s biggest prison, provided, of course, they have not violated jail manuals and their conduct has been good. The inmates will have to come back to their cells at night. The move to allow well-behaved prisoners to work outside the jail complex follows a recent nod from the Delhi government to a rehabilitation plan...
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