Bengaluru, Feb 12 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday night arrested senior BJP MLA and former minister Byrathi Basavaraj in connection with the murder of rowdy-sheeter Shivaprakash alias Biklu Shiva.The arrest came hours after the Supreme Court rejected Basavaraj’s bail plea earlier in the day. The MLA was taken into custody at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru by the Devanahalli police upon his arrival from Ahmedabad on IndiGo flight 6E683 and was later…
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New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would consider an urgent hearing on a plea seeking to restrain the conduct of the Maha Shivaratri puja at the Raghava Chaitanya Shivling, which is installed within the premises of the Laadle Mashaik Dargah in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district. Senior advocate Vibha Datta Makhija, appearing for the dargah management, urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to list the matter before February 15, when Maha Shivaratri is scheduled t…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Tuesday, announced that February 28 will be the new date for the publication of the final voters’ list in West Bengal. At the same time, the ECI had also fixed February 14 as the new deadline for the completion of the hearing sessions on claims and objections over the draft voters’ list in West Bengal.The completion of the hearing sessions will be followed by a scrutiny, following which the final voters’ list will be published on …
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal will hold a crucial meeting with the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday to finalise the new date for publication of the final voters’ list in the state that will bring an end to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).The meeting is crucial, being held after the Supreme Court — a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant — on Monday directed the ECI to gr…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s refusal to suspend the sentence of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor’s father. Taking note that Sengar’s criminal appeal against his conviction and 10-year sentence is already listed before the Delhi High Court on February 11, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant observed that the High Court may be requested…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a writ petition filed by Jan Suraaj, founded by political strategist Prashant Kishor, challenging the validity of the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections and seeking a direction for holding fresh polls.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi expressed disinclination to examine the matter under Article 32 of the Constitution, following which the petitioner sought to withdraw the plea with lib…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the ban on BJP MP and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur from holding office in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), nearly nine years after removing him as the cricket body’s president.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi modified its January 2017 order, which had directed Thakur to “cease and desist from being associated with the working of the BCCI”.Allowing Thakur’s applicatio…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) When West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress members and supporters look back at their party chief Mamata Banerjee’s recent visit to New Delhi, they may find some satisfaction that even if not the war, “didi” (referred to Mamata Banerjee) did win a battle — of narratives. Though the third largest Opposition bloc in Lok Sabha, the Trinamool Congress has wrested the lead from the Congress in its tirade against the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Review (SIR…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state and alleging large-scale disenfranchisement of genuine voters. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, and comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, sought the poll body’s response and post…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday reached the Supreme Court for the case hearing of a petition challenging the validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being carried out in the poll-bound state.She has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of political bias and adopting an authoritarian approach in conducting the SIR.Heavy security has been deployed near the entrance gate of the Supreme Court, as the hearing into S…