New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Lok Sabha Speaker’s office and six rebel Shiv Sena(UBT) MPs on a plea filed by Shiv Sena(UBT) leader Arvind Sawant challenging the Speaker’s decision recognising their merger with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena under the anti-defection law. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe sought responses from the respondents and posted the matter for further hearing after two weeks.The notices were issued to the L…
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Mumbai, June 29 (IANS) The three-day tour by Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray in the constituencies represented by the rebel MPs was planned after the faction led by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde launched ‘Operation Tiger’ to lure six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs into its fold.The Shinde faction also announced plans for ‘Split 3.0’, aimed at engineering defections among Shiv Sena (UBT) MLAs and corporators in Maharashtra. Against this bac…
Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Bringing the curtains down on one of Maharashtra’s longest-running and most politically sensitive criminal cases, a special CBI court in Mumbai on Saturday acquitted all eight accused in the 2006 murder of senior Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar and his driver Samad Abdul Wahid Kazi, citing lack of evidence.Among those acquitted was former Maharashtra Home Minister and ex-NCP MP Padamsinh Patil, 86, who was alleged by the CBI to be the key conspirator behind the killing…