Union textiles Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, refuted the allegations against him that he had misused his position as Telecom Minister.
The latest allegation against him states the he had misused his ministerial position in order to get free BSNL telephone lines for his brother’s company, Sun TV. and great loss has been caused by him to BSNL by using Government provided telephone connections for vested interests.
The Judge Rohidas Wankhade court of Judicial Magistrate first class on Thursday rejected the bail plea of passport agent Aravind Bhat and granted bail to Model Jiya Chopra and dancer and actress Vedika Shivsagar, both residents of Mumbai in the passport scam at the Bund garden police station.
After the complaint by the business groups, RTI activist Ramesh Agarwal has been arrested and chained to a hospital bed Chhattisgarh Raigarh. His arrest was made by the Chhattisgarh police on the basis of jindal’s complaint.
The Shillong bench of Gauhati High Court yesterday launched a video conferencing system to make way for the reduction of burden imposed upon the litigants to travel all the way to Guwahati for deposing before High Court. Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court Madan B Lakur said that after the implementation of the video conferencing system a person can appear for hearing before the High Court from Shillong. He added that through this system urgent cases can be heard and judgments can also be delivered. Justice Lakur also said that introduction of video conferencing was expected to further speed up the rate of disposing cases in the Shillong Bench. The Shillong Bench of the Gauhati High Court has one stationed judge besides other judges who come from Guwahati to conduct hearings.
Papalal who is a painter for Hindu Gods and Goddesses for temples in the city of Hyderabad and his wife Jayashree, took a 4years old orphan Muslim girl who was the victim of the bomb blast which took place in the city on 2007. Papalal was working near to the area were the blast took place and he found the girl near Gokul Chat centre blast site.
In order to reduce the burden of litigants to travel all the way to Guwahati for deposing before Gauhati High Court the Shillong bench of Guwahati High court had launched Video conferencing system. The Person appear for the hearing from Shillong itself through the video conferencing system. Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court Madan B Lakur said, through the video conferencing system urgent cases can be heard and even judgments can be delivered. The number of pending cases in the Shillong Bench of Gauhati High Court has gone down to 826 from 1100 in the past one year, Justice Lakur said, adding that introduction of video conferencing was expected to further speed up the rate of disposing cases in the Shillong Bench.
The Delhi high court on thursday rejected a plea to indict Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani in the 2G spectrum case. The judge along with imposing a fine of Rs.10,000 also said that the case lacks any substance and is not in compliance with law. He added that these kind of cases wastes a lot of court’s precious time and should be strongly condemned with hefty fines. The petition claimed that the CBI knowingly are not looking into the matter and are protecting the persons. It requested the court’s direction to the CBI to indict them. This is not the first time a court has slapped a fine on a third party to the case. On May 25 there was a similar case where it requested the inclusion of companies like Airtel and S-Tel of corrupt practices and the court levied a fine of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner.
The High court judges were warned by the apex court that, they should not summon the Government officials for unnecessary reasons as it will result in causing disastrous effect on their governance. The court passed this order when it was found to be improper that even after continuous advise from the apex court, of not summoning the Government officials except in exceptional cases, the Allahabad High Court summoned the U.P government’s principal health secretary for non-compliance of its 21year order. The bench clearly stated that a large number of cases are charged against these officials which are only for the ego satisfaction of the judges. Adding up to the same it was said that the judges of higher judiciary (High Court and Supreme Court) should have high degree of modesty and humility and should not possess any kind of ego problems. Also the court advised the judges to show respect to these officials of the executive. A mutual respect between the executive and the judiciary is an important phenomenon without which the whole system will collapse.