-The Indian Express The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed its September 2012 ruling that "only" serving and retired judges of the apex court and Chief Justices of state high courts can head the central and state information commissions. Passing an interim order pending its decision on the review petition filed by the Centre against the verdict, a bench led by Justice A K Patnaik stayed the direction making it mandatory for information...
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Soon, pay your traffic challan online -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Traffic challans will very soon be paid online across the country and will not constitute a court case. The government has written to all states to make online payment of traffic challans mandatory and the ministry of road transport and highways is likely to issue a directive to take challan cases out of the domain of courts. After the intervention of the Prime Minister's Office, the...
More »Karnataka exhorts centre to hasten work on rural courts -Manu Aiyappa
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Nearly four years after the GramNyayalaya Act came into force, the promise to provide ""inexpensive justice at the doorsteps of rural litigants"" is still tottering in Karnataka. At the joint conference of chief ministers and Chief Justices in New Delhi on Sunday, Karnataka chief minister JagadishShettar sough to raise this issue saying the very fact that these courts have not started functioning so far indicates that...
More »Don't keep people on death row in limbo, CJI Altamas Kabir tells govt -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India Asking the government not to keep mercy petitions of death row convicts pending for a long time, Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Sunday said execution of death penalty should not be delayed. He also faulted the government for not informing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's family members before he was hanged. "If a death penalty is to be awarded and it is there under the system,...
More »HC scraps ‘discriminatory’ rules giving additional weightage to rural students
-The Indian Express Chandigarh: Slamming the Punjab government for sponsoring "xenophobia", the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday set aside its "discriminatory" rules, wherein it had allowed additional weightage to rural students for government jobs. A Full Bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta, Ajay Tewari and R N Raina held the rules framed by Punjab as "illegal, unconstitutional" and beyond its "legislative competence". "State sponsored xenophobia is constitutional anathema and the principle...
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