New Delhi/Srinagar, April 18 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a 30-year-old case involving alleged attacks on police personnel, officials said on Saturday. Shah was taken into custody by the NIA’s Srinagar branch on Friday evening and subsequently produced before a court in Delhi, which granted a three-day transit remand to enable the anti-terror agency to take him to Jammu and Kashmir for fu…
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New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging interference by the West Bengal government and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the Central agency’s recent search operations at the office of political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, the matter is listed b…
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its decision on a batch of petitions raising concerns over hate speeches and the alleged failure of authorities to effectively implement existing regulatory mechanisms.Directing all parties to file brief written submissions, a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta hinted that most of the matters would be closed, with liberty to pursue remedies as available under law, except for one petition.The Justice Nath-led Bench decide…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) the Supreme Court, continuing its hearing in the suo motu case on stray dog management in public spaces, on Friday made it clear that allegations of harassment, assault, or use of derogatory language against women feeding dogs constitute criminal offences, and such issues must be addressed under the penal law and not before the apex court in individual cases.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N.V. Anjaria was hearing submissions from animal rights activist…