New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court has suspended the life sentence of a man convicted of murdering his wife and granted him bail, observing that the case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence and that the appeal pending before the Madhya Pradesh High Court is unlikely to be heard in the near future. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan was hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Shivendra challenging an order of the high court, which had declined to suspe…
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New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the constitutional validity of Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The section mandates prior sanction from the competent authority before initiating an inquiry or investigation against a public servant for decisions taken in the discharge of official duties.A division bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice K.V. Viswanathan pronounced separate judgments on the challenge to Section 17A, which was…