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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and state governments on a PIL seeking to free pavements and roads from encroachment to provide citizens their right to free passage and free flow of traffic on roads. A bench of Chief Justice R M Lodha and Justices Kurian Joseph and R […]

NEW DELHI: The man whose PIL led the Supreme Court to lay down a fixed tenure for the CBI director now wants a review of the rule in the light of a raging controversy surrounding Ranjit Sinha, the incumbent chief of the premier investigation agency. Journalist-turned-activist Vineet Narain has urged the Supreme Court to send

The CBI Friday moved the Supreme Court for lodging a criminal case of perjury against advocate Kamini Jaiswal, who is the secretary of the NGO that accused agency’s director Ranjit Sinha of attempting to protect a few influential accused in the 2G scam. Sinha has been in the midst of a controversy over leaked documents

NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Controversial godman Nityananda Swamy was on Wednesday directed to take potency test in a 2010 rape case by the Supreme Court, which also criticized the Karnataka police for the “lackadaisical approach of prosecution” in the case. The sexual abuse complaint was registered against Nityananda in September 2012 when an NRI woman alleged she

NEW DELHI: For close to 20 years, the Supreme Court kept an eye on the interests of several hundred investors who were duped of crores of rupees by Skipper Constructions and allied companies floated in and around Delhi by Tejwant Singh. After years of effort and with assistance from senior advocate Dayan Krishnan acting as

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday ordered to cancel allocation of 350 acres of land in Gurgaon to real estate group DLF. The court’s verdict to cancel the allotment of land of Gurgaon’s Wazirabad village is likely to add to the troubles of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda who has been accused

  JALPAIGURI: A schoolgirl belonging to a scheduled caste community was allegedly gang-raped and murdered soon after she protested against the humiliation of her family at a kangaroo court convened by Trinamool councilor Namita Ray in Jalpaiguri’s Dhupguri late on Monday. Namita allegedly spat on the ground and asked her to lick it. This triggered

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday cancelled Haryana government’s auction of 350.7 acres of prime land in Gurgaon which real estate major DLF had bagged for Rs 1,703 crore. A division bench headed by Justice Surya Kant cancelled the auction on technical grounds, which is not likely to bring any relief

A special NIA court on Tuesday transferred the Sunil Joshi murder case back to the sessions court in Dewas, which will now hold this peculiar trial which will be based on a chargesheet and a supplementary chargesheet that identify, except Sadhvi Pragya Singh, different sets of accused. Joshi was considered an important link to the

A memorial for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the proposal for which has so far been rejected by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), may soon see the light of the day, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) said. Despite NDMC’s opposition to build a memorial within the premises of Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib,