Rajasthan HC had transferred to CBI two illegal mining & intimidation cases in Bhilwara against Congress leader and ex-minister Ramlal Jat, after initially declining to do so.
Thirteen Allahabad HC judges have urged their Chief Justice to convene a full court meeting & refuse compliance with the SC order against Justice Prashant Kumar.
A 3-judge special bench, led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna, issued the direction, supplementing SC’s 2021 judgment that mooted idea of ad-hoc judges under Article 224A of the Constitution.
Despite facing 38 cases, Brij Bhushan is yet to see conviction in even one of them. His aides face charges of links with land mafia & illegal possession of property.
Acting on SC's orders in 2018, such courts were set up across India. And while UP has MP/MLA courts in almost all districts, 1,377 cases are pending in these as of November 2022.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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