-The Indian Express   The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Army three weeks’ time to detail the extent of immunity enjoyed by Army personnel under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. A bench of Justices was hearing a CBI plea to vacate a SC stay on the trial in a J&K court on the killing of seven youths allegedly by the Army. The incident is said to be a retaliation for the...

Team Anna on Thursday pressed for as many as 34 fresh additions to the proposed Lokpal bill that have already been incorporated in the Uttarakhand Lokayukata bill and renewed their demand that constitutional amendments bringing violation of citizens' charter and conduct of MPs in Parliament within the purview of the Lokpal also be introduced. The additions include widening the definition of corruption to include individuals who have given or taken benefit...

-PTI   The CBI will oppose the bail of five corporate honchos in the Supreme Court which is to hear their petitions on Monday, in connection with the 2G scam, days after it did not object to the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others in the trial court. Sources in the investigating agency confirmed that it has instructed the lawyer to oppose the plea of corporate executives - Unitech Wireless'...

Five years after being picked up by police — and almost a year after Swami Aseemanand’s confession — nine Muslim youths accused in the 2006 Malegaon bombings have their best chance of getting bail. The National Commission for Minorities has asked the government to ensure that they are released at the earliest. NCM chairman Wajahat Habibullah recently wrote to the ministries of home and law, asking them to proactively intervene and...

Police officers of Chhattisgarh would have us believe that people fall inside bathrooms at police stations deliberately to break their own heads or backs and later blame it on custodial torture. They say that’s what happened with Soni Sori, an ashramshala teacher from Jabeli village in the Maoist-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, on October 10. In pain, drifting in and out of consciousness, benumbed by the ‘good cop, bad cop’...