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.
UP tops list with 1,339 cases still pending for final disposal. Bihar is second. Amicus curiae Vijay Hansaria says Centre didn’t provide suggestions over the monitoring panel.
The apex court said that politics parties publishing details of criminal background of their candidates in public will make the voter's 'right of information' more effective.
The court said to hold a lawmaker as disqualified even before he/she is convicted would 'grossly violate' his/her substantive right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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