Dehradun, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested five accused, including an alleged kingpin, in connection with the multi-crore LUCC chit fund scam in Uttarakhand that allegedly duped more than one lakh investors.The arrested accused have been identified as Sushil Gokhroo, Rajendra Singh Bisht, Tarun Kumar Mourya, Gaurav Rohilla and Mamta Bhandari. They were apprehended from different locations across the country, the agency said on Wednesday.The case pertains to th…
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Former Solicitor General of India and senior advocate Harish Salve on Tuesday said that AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s letter to Delhi High Court judge Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma amounts to terrorising or attacking an institution and attempting to be “prosecution, judge and jury”. “Since 2014, I have seen an increasing trend among certain sections of political society that they are the prosecution, judge and jury. What they say is right. And if you disagree with t…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said on Monday that it may approach the Supreme Court if the Uttarakhand High Court does not grant relief in pleas challenging certain provisions of the state government’s law on madrasa registration.Alleging that there appears to be a concerted attempt to undermine Islamic seminaries, the Board, in a statement, said that the Uttarakhand government has introduced a law making it mandatory for all madrasas to register w…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Justice Lokpal Singh, a former judge of the Uttarakhand High Court, on Monday reacted strongly to a letter penned by Arvind Kejriwal to Delhi High Court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma, in which the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor stated that he would neither appear before her personally nor be represented by legal counsel in proceedings related to the Delhi Excise Policy case.In his communication, Kejriwal said that he has lost hope of getting justice from the judg…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court has enhanced the monthly maintenance payable to a woman from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000, holding that a husband’s financial commitments, such as loan repayments for asset creation, cannot take precedence over his statutory obligation to maintain his spouse. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and AG Masih passed the order while allowing an appeal filed by Deepa Joshi against her estranged husband, Gaurav Joshi, challenging the adequacy of maintenance fixed…
Dehradun, March 21 (IANS) A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation has convicted and sentenced eight officials to two years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.85 lakh in connection with a Rs 55 lakh Public Works Department (PWD) fraud case of 2003.The CBI court in Dehradun on Friday convicted the former officials — Deepak Kumar Verma (LDC), Madan Pal (Mate), Mani Ram (Beldar), Surendra Kumar Kaushik (Driver), Kasim (retired Beldar) of PWD Haridwar, Sukhpal Si…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) for Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, said on Friday that as many as 116 women judges are currently serving in the Higher Judiciary which has a working strength of 814, with Punjab and Haryana High Court having the maximum number of 18. Replying to a query in the Lok Sabha, MoS Meghwal shared data on the working strength and number of women judges in the Supreme Court and High Courts showing that at present, of the 33 Supreme Court judges, only o…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Centre on Thursday cleared the appointment of Allahabad High Court judge, Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta, as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.As per a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice, the President, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 217(1) of the Constitution of India, appointed Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta, Judge of the Allahabad High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court with effect from the date h…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The Centre on Monday notified the appointment of four advocates as judges in three High Courts, acting on the recommendations of the Supreme Court Collegium.In a post on social media platform X, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal said that the President, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution of India and after consultation with the Chief Justice of India (CJI), was pleased to appoint advocates Ritesh Kumar …
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) The Centre on Thursday notified the appointment and transfer of Chief Justices of several High Courts, acting on the recommendations of the Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant.A notification issued by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice said that the President, in exercise of powers under Article 222 of the Constitution, has transferred Justice Soumen Sen, Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, to serve as the Chief Justice of t…