-The Hindu Had the court known that Pratibha Patil was not told of the dissent in the Bhullar case, the outcome of his appeal might have been similar to that of Das's plea The Supreme Court, in the course of just one month, has rendered two judgments that appear to be contradictory. As both the judgments have been rendered by the same Bench, comprising two judges, they need to be studied...
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From hawala scam to coalgate, full circle for Supreme Court -GP Joshi
-The Hindu Non-implementation of the 1997 judgment in the money laundering case shows that freeing the CBI from political interference is a challenge even for the apex court "Our first exercise will be to liberate CBI from political interference." This is what the Supreme Court said while deliberating the coal scam status report. It is not the first time that the court will be embarking on such a project. A similar exercise...
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-The Times of India CHENNAI: More than 6,500 Indians are living an uncertain life in prisons in 80 foreign countries, half of them in three Gulf countries. The Gulf countries have the largest number of Indian prisoners, with 1,691 in Kuwait, 1,161 in Saudi Arabia and 1,012 in the UAE. Among the neighbours, Pakistan holds 253 Indians in its prisons, China has 157 of them and Sri Lanka 63. Languishing in the...
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-The Hindu Experts panel has okayed design, EC tells Supreme Court New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it would convene an all-party meeting on May 10 to decide on changes to be made in the electronic voting machine for introducing the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) System. Under this system, a voter by pressing a button in the EVM will know the candidate whom he/she is voting...
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-Live Mint Even as India struggles in efforts to usher in transparency, some panchayats are offering a refreshing contrast Chandana/Jind: Sometime last year, Surendra Singh got a call from a military outpost in Srinagar. The soldier had an urgent inquiry for the 31-year-old sarpanch of Chandana, a village in Haryana's Kaithal district. The man, who hailed from the village, had lost his voter ID card and needed a letter from the...
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