Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today made it clear that the state would move high court seeking capital punishment for the convict while expressing shock at the hearing of verdict of life sentence in the R G Kar rape and murder case.
Expressing displeasure over the undesirable condition of the Nagrota-based 'Gowshala' (cattle pound) here, a division bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh headed by Chief Justice Tashi Rabstan orally directed in the open court the termination of contract of the outsourced agency in case the deficiencies persist before the next date of hearing.
Terming the restrictions as “impractical”, the Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the Kerala High Court's order on the use of elephants and observing distances between them, the public, flambeau, and the percussion display during festival parades, including the ‘Thrissur Pooram”.
Earlier in the day, a local court remanded the actor to judicial custody for 14 days and sent him to Chanchalguda jail under tight security.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday ruled that comments by the media declaring an accused guilty or innocent while a criminal case is still pending does not fall under protected free speech under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India
The High Court said that allegations were not duly supported by documents and evidence and the Court proceedings were misused.
Accepting post-retirement appointments of truly political nature goes against the very spirit of the Constitution. The SC has preached on numerous occasions that justice must not merely be done but it must also be seen to be done. The behaviour and conduct of members of the higher judiciary must reaffirm the people's faith in the impartiality of the judiciary
The inquiry has been conducted on the basis of a High Court directive following allegations by some lawyers.
Advocate Himang Saluja has filed a petition against Uikey calling her decision a "violation of the constitution" which is creating an "uncertainty" in the state over the rule. In the petition filed in the High Court, it has been said that the governor didn't sign the bill even after the Assembly passed the Reservation Bill.
The confiscated assets, belonging to the violent PFI leaders and workers, would be handed over to the Land Revenue Department to compensate for the loss of public properties damaged during the statewide hartal call that turned violent on 23 September last.
