The petition by Delhi Prosecutors Welfare Association (DPWA) sought quashing of Delhi govt's 24 June notification appointing the SPPs, including Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.
A spat ensued between Tushar Mehta and Delhi govt counsel Rahul Mehra when the latter objected to the solicitor general’s presence in a bail-related case.
Mehta’s categorisation of some courts as institutions ‘running parallel governments’ is a signal to the subordinate judiciary. SC should have stopped him.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the court that Delhi LG had authorised him to represent Delhi Police. Kejriwal govt’s counsel Rahul Mehra disputed this.
The court also sought the investigating agency's response on the Congress leader's anticipatory bail plea and listed the matter for further hearing on 3 July.
Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.
At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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