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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 19) allowed Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya to publish an apology across all social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, over alleged objectionable social media posts on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria, hearing Malviya’s plea seeking anticipatory bail in the case registered by the Madhya Pradesh police, also extended protection from arrest to the cartoonist till the next date of hearing. Advocate Vrinda Grover, appearing for Malviya, made a statement before the bench that the cartoonist would publish an apology on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, for the said alleged offensive posts on social media. "The apology as per the earlier order has already been placed. I am making an additional statement that it (objectionable contents) will be deleted from all social media platforms even though the...
New Delhi: A city court has rejected the plea of alleged middleman Christian Michel James seeking his release in the in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case on the ground that he had undergone the period of maximum sentence of seven years for the purported offences. Special Judge Sanjay Jindal said that James’s plea that he is entitled to the benefit under section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which deals with the maximum period for which an under-trial prisoner can be detained, cannot be accepted. "The request of the accused Christian Michel James for his release under section 436 A CrPC stands declined," the court said. The court said that besides the provisions of sections 415 (mischief) and 420 (cheating) read with 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which deals with the offence related to bribing a public servant, he is alleged to have committed offence under section 467 (forgery of...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 6) set aside an interim order of the Madras High Court prohibiting the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government from using the names and photographs of serving and former chief ministers in welfare schemes. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria, while setting aside the interim order, also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on AIADMK leader C.Ve Shanmugam, who had moved the High Court, saying the plea was not only "misconceived in law" but also an "abuse of the process of law." The apex court order came on pleas moved by the DMK as well as the state government of Tamil Nadu challenging the High Court order. The apex court, which withdrew the petition pending before the High Court and dismissed it with a fine of Rs 10 lakh, questioned the conduct of the AIADMK leader for only singling out the DMK government when schemes in the names of political leaders is followed across the country. “The...
New Delhi: A special court has accepted a closure report filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a 2018 case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain and others registered on a complaint alleging irregular engagement of professionals in the Public Works Department (PWD), violation of rules, and payments made from unrelated project funds. Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh accepted the CBI’s closure report, saying when the investigating agency has not found any incriminating evidence over such a long period to prove the commission of any offence, further proceedings would serve no useful purpose. “When CBI could not find any evidence of criminal conspiracy, abuse of power, pecuniary gain, or wrongful loss to the Government Exchequer, and the alleged acts are at most administrative irregularities, no offence under section 13(1)(d) of the PC (Prevention of Corruption) Act or criminal conspiracy is established,” the court said. “Despite...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (August 1) asked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajiv Babbar, who has filed a defamation case against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over his alleged “scorpion on Shivling” remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “why so touchy about all this” and urged him to close the defamation case against Tharoor. “Why do you want to be so touchy about all this? Let us close all this,” a bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh told the counsel representing BJP leader Rajiv Babbar while extending the stay on trial court proceedings against Tharoor in the defamation case. The bench posted the matter for further hearing on September 15 after the counsel representing Tharoor requested for adjournment. The apex court had earlier on September 10 last year stayed the proceedings against Tharoor at the trial court. It had stayed the direction of the Delhi High Court refusing to quash the defamation proceedings against...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday (July 31) issued notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and sought its response on a plea filed by Bramulla Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Sheikh Abdul Rashid challenging framing of charges against him in a terror funding case. A bench comprising Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Shalinder Kaur granted time to the NIA to file its reply and listed Rashid’s plea for further hearing on October 6. Rashid has also filed pleas before the High Court seeking interim bail and challenging an order of the trial court, which granted him custody parole to attend the ongoing Parliament session between July 24 and August 4 with the condition of bearing travel expenses of Rs 1.44 lakh per day and these two pleas were also listed before the bench on Thursday. The bench, however, was of the view that Rashid’s these two pleas be heard by the same bench which had earlier heard a similar plea filed by him during the Budget session and said...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (July 31), while criticising the Telangana Speaker over delay in deciding the issue with regard to disqualification petitions against 10 BRS MLAs who defected to the Congress party, urged Parliament to examine whether the present mechanism of entrusting the Speaker/Chairman the important task of deciding the issue of disqualification on the ground of defection is serving the purpose of effectively combating political defections or not. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) and Justice AG Masih, while setting aside a division bench order of the Telangana High Court and directing the Telangana speaker to decide the disqualification petitions within three months, noted that no notice was issued by the Speaker for a period of more than seven months and said that issuing notice only after either the proceedings were filed before the top court or after the matter was heard by the top court for the first time cannot by any stretch be...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 30) dismissed several appeals against the Allahabad High Court order acquitting domestic help Surendra Koli in the 2006 Nithari serial killings case in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and K Vinod Chandran dismissed as many as 14 appeals against Koli’s acquittal, including the one filed by the father of one of the victims, saying there was "no perversity" in the High Court’s findings acquitting Koli. Apex court last year agreed to examine pleas against acquittal of Koli The top court had last year agreed to hear separate appeals, including the appeals filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Uttar Pradesh government challenging High Court’s October 16, 2003 verdict acquitting Koli. Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Koli were accused of rape and murder of several persons, mostly children, in their neighbourhood in Noida’s...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, while awarding Rs 91 lakh compensation to an engineering student who lost his leg in a road accident in Coimbatore, said that if a driver intends to stop his vehicle on a highway, he/she has a responsibility to give a warning or signal to other vehicles moving behind on the road. A bench comprising Justice Suddhanshu Dhulia and Justice Aravind Kumar was hearing an appeal filed by S Mohammed Hakim, an engineering student, whose left leg had to be amputated after he lost his leg in a road accident in Coimbatore. Hakim, on January 7, 2017, was riding on a motorcycle along with his friend on the pillion and a car driver, who was ahead of Hakim’s motorcycle, suddenly applied the brakes of his car and Hakim dashed his motorcycle into the rear side of the car and fell on the right side of the road. A bus coming from behind drove over Hakim, which resulted in the accident and later amputation of Hakim’s left leg during treatment. The car driver admitted in...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 30) sought the details of all the accused and witnesses in the cash-for-jobs scam cases involving former Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, taking note of over 2000 accused and 500 witnesses in the cases. A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, while pulling up the state government of Tamil Nadu, that had there not been judicial intervention, the "reluctant state" wanted to give a decent burial of cases involving the former minister in the cash-for-job scam case. The bench said it will be the most populated trial of India with over 2000 accused and 500 witnesses and a small courtroom of the trial court will not suffice and a cricket stadium will be needed to even mark the presence of the accused. "With over 2000 accused and 500 witnesses it will be the most populated trial of India. A small courtroom of the trial court will not suffice and a cricket stadium will be needed to even mark the presence of the...
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