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UP Police Encounters: SC seeks report from Yogi Govt.

-Caravandaily.com Petitioner PUCL has also sought compensation to victims’ families. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file a detailed report on the police shootouts in which more than 50 people have been killed in the last one year. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has sought response in two weeks from the Uttar Pradesh government of Yogi Adityanath on a petition of...

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How central and state governments have been flouting Supreme Court regulations on government advertisements -Nileena MS

-CaravanMagazine.in The Chattisgarh government's advertisements for the Vikas Yatra display photographs of the BJP national president, Amit Shah, the party’s state president, Dharamlal Kaushik, and other local party leaders. None of these leaders hold a position falling within the exceptions carved out by the Supreme Court for government advertisements.   In late May, Shiv Kumar Banerjee, the sub-divisional magistrate of Chhattisgarh’s Rajpur area, conducted an inspection of a school premises ahead of...

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The Great Transparency 'Jumla'

-Newsclick.in Electoral bonds are neither 'transparent' nor 'anonymous'. In the latest revelation, file notings of the Election Commission of India (ECI) have showed that it had decided against uploading a letter – which talked about its reservations regarding the Finance Act, 2017 and introduction of the electoral bonds – on their website. The notings have been disclosed through a response to an application under the Right to Information Act (RTI) filed by...

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Transparency test for symbol of trust -R Balaji

-The Telegraph SC refuses to give copy of order forming bench, MPs withdraw petition on Chief Justice New Delhi: A transparency test was staring at the Supreme Court after a constitution bench refused on Tuesday to entertain a persistent plea for a copy of an order through which the same bench had been formed to look into a plea linked to the Chief Justice of India. Following the court's reluctance to furnish the...

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Rajinder Sachar (1923-2018) helped puncture the myth of Muslim appeasement in India -Ajaz Ashraf

-Scroll.in The former Delhi High Court chief justice chaired the committee that wrote a landmark report on the status of Muslims in India. There are many reasons to remember Justice Rajinder Sachar, who died in Delhi at the age of 95, on April 20. He was a former chief justice of the Delhi High Court, a civil rights activist proud of his socialist credentials, and a man whose instinct it was...

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