-The Hindu Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted the former Lok Sabha MP, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, and two others in the 1998 murder case of Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Ajit Sarkar. A division bench of Justices V.N. Sinha and Amaresh Kumar Lal overturned the February 2008 order of the lower court, which had convicted Mr. Yadav, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Kumar Yadav of murder and criminal...
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Jharkhand Special Police Officers caught in a spiral of violence and retribution-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Khunti (Jharkhand): On the night of April 30, worshippers in the Raja Rani temple in Naurhi village in Adki block near Ranchi were singing, chanting and celebrating the new temple in their village when a group of CPI (Maoists) entered the temple and shot Dilip Acharya, the oldest of the three brothers who built the temple, dead as he lay asleep on the floor. The men then addressed...
More »Don’t play politics with cooperative societies, Supreme Court warns States-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu Supersession only in exceptional circumstances, not for extraneous considerations The Supreme Court on Thursday decried the tendency of State governments superseding elected cooperative societies for political or extraneous reasons. "Supersession of an elected managing committee/board is an exception and [can] be resorted to only in exceptional circumstances," said a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra. Sending a warning to the States, the Bench imposed Rs. 1 lakh in costs...
More »Students can seek copy, inspect answer sheets under RTI Act -Kapil Dave
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Results are out and there will be some students who will not be satisfied with their results. Those students can inspect their evaluated answer book under RTI Act, 2005. Supreme Court of India has very specifically ruled out that students can inspect their answer sheet under RTI Act and any by-laws or rules/regulation of Education Board/Examination Board cant prevent them from doing so. Gujarat Information commission...
More »No arrest for posts on social sites without senior cops' nod, Supreme Court says
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that no person should be arrested for posting objectionable comments on social networking sites without permission of senior police officials. The SC has also directed all states and UTs to comply with Centre's advisory on arresting people for their comments on websites. The court on Wednesday had agreed to hear a plea seeking to restrain government authorities from taking any coercive...
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