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Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s recent request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from increasingly ‘‘intrusive’’ queries appears to have triggered an exercise to look for options to effect changes in the RTI Act. Following...
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The collegium is likely to take a final call on the issue at its meeting on Tuesday. Earlier, the government had rejected its proposal to elevate Dinakaran, who is in the eye of a storm over alleged land grabbing in Tamil Nadu. A senior lawyer said a...
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Dinakaran rushed to the capital and met Chief Justice of India K.G...Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Vinodini, Justice Dinakaran was understood to have given a further explanation to the CJI with regard to the allegations against him of land encroachment...
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CJI]", by staying CIC's another direction to part with details the collegium considered while appointing three judges to SC by superseding senior judges, including Delhi high court chief justice AP Shah. Holding that he was covered by the landmark Right...
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Rakesh Bhatnagar / DNA Tuesday, December 1, 2009 0:28 IST New Delhi: It is for the Union government to decide whether controversial Karnataka high court chief justice PD Dinakaran should be elevated to the Supreme Court (SC) or not, chief justice of...
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Dr Moily told participants the Ministry was working on a legislation aimed at Judges' accountability which would also contain provisions to preclude any misuse. Until recently, the authorities often tried to advance arguments of judicial independence...
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Justice R Raghupathi of the Madras high court in the open court had a few months ago alleged that a Union minister, through his lawyer, spoke to him on telephone seeking favours in a case being probed by the CBI. RTI applicant Subhash Chandra Agrawal...
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Balakrishnan has constituted a five-Judge Constitution Bench to hear Tamil Nadu’s suit questioning Kerala’s law to prevent raising the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam beyond 136 ft. as against 142 ft. allowed by the Supreme Court judgment of February...
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The Supreme Court Monday dismissed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's plea challenging an Allahabad High Court decision to entertain a lawsuit seeking revival of a corruption case in the multi-crore Taj Heritage Corridor scam...Sudershan Reddy dismissed...
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In a damning admission of past malpractices in selection of judges to High Courts, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Friday said the bright and meritorious among District Judges were seldom appointed as judges of HCs. Chief Justices of HCs have...
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