-The Hindu Kolkata: Emphasising the need for deploying Central paramilitary forces for conducting free and fair rural polls in the State, counsel for the State Election Commission told the Calcutta High Court here on Thursday that it was akin to handing over investigations of a sensitive case to the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) to ensure an "impartial" probe. At the hearing, counsel for the Commission Samaraditya Pal, cited various instances where...
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Arrest ADGP in Ishrat case, orders CBI court
-The Hindu Ahmedabad: In another blow to the Gujarat police, already in the dock for a series of fake encounter killings, a special CBI sessions court on Thursday ordered the CBI Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate to issue an arrest warrant against Additional Director- General of Police (CID Crime) P.P. Pandey in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate had turned down a plea by the CBI to issue...
More »CVC is CBI's supervisor, not Law Ministry -Rohini Singh & Aman Sharma
-The Economic Times The CBI manual contradicts the government's stance that it did no wrong in vetting the draft status report of the agency's probe in the coal allocation case, say legal experts, former CBI officials and activists. The manual says while CBI's superintendence is vested in the central government, its supervising authority is the Central Vigilance Commission in case of investigation of offences alleged to have been committed under the...
More »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...
More »Coal-Gate: PM reportedly asked law officers if he is an accused in the coal case -Sunil Prabhu and Abhinav Bhatt
-NDTV In a meeting with the government's top law officers, the Prime Minister reportedly asked if he is an accused in a case that searches why coal fields were given to private players without transparency, allegedly losing the government vast amounts of money. For several of the years under review, the Prime Minister held direct charge of the Coal Ministry. But the government's real embarrassment lies in the revelation that last month, Law...
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