NGO urges Supreme Court not to crack down on PILs in which there is commercial interestThe NGO, CPIL, was instrumental in getting the top court to lay down the concept of institutional integrity.
Never vetted PILs for NGO as Prashant Bhushan claimed: Fali S Nariman“It is true my name has been on the committee of CPIL almost since inception, but no PIL filed by CPIL has ever been seen by me", the senio...
SC to Prashant Bhushan: How can you become the centre for public interest litigation?A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and two judges questioned the credentials of CPIL, which challenged the allocation of 4G spectrum to Ji...
Supreme Court hints at disallowing PILs with commercial interestPILs in the past have resulted in historic court orders with significant business impact, such as en masse cancellation of telecom spectrum...
Chronology of events of CBI Director Ranjit Sinha's caseTwelve days before Sinha's retirement, SC removes him from 2G probe and trial and says the senior most officer after him in CBI will assume...
NGO CPIL refuses to name source in Ranjit Sinha diary rowHis defence lawyer Vikas Singh had at the last hearing said while 10% of the entries may be correct, 90% was incorrect.
Make specific allegations against SAIL: High Court to NGOBhushan alleged "there is a racket of cartelisation" going on in SAIL in which no competitive bidding is being held which is "contrary to t...
2G: CBI moves Supreme Court for lodging perjury case against NGO's SecretaryThe agency denied the allegation that CBI overruled all investigating officers and Director of prosecution on the issue of filing charge sh...
CBI Director Ranjit Sinha dragged into another controversy in SC on 2G scamThe NGO alleged that the "Director has made serious attempts to derail the investigation and prosecution being carried out by the CBI".
No government permission to probe officers above Joint Secretary: Supreme CourtDr Swamy and Cpil through lawyer Prashant Bhushan claimed that the provision stood in the way of prosecution of corrupt officials in other ...
- Supreme Court reserves order on plea against soft drinks
A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra reserved its order after a detailed hearing on the Public Interest Litigation petitio...
- 2G spectrum verdict: Presidential Reference can't be rejected on ground of malafide, says Supreme Court
SC said it cannot reject the Presidential Reference on 2G spectrum verdict only on the ground that it was moved with a "malafide".
- Natural resources must be auctioned: SC told
Scarce resources like minerals are being given away at a fraction of their market price, thereby giving windfall profits to the corporates,...
- HC notice to Centre for CVC inquiry in Air India aircraft deal
Delhi High Court sought response from the Centre on an NGO's plea seeking a direction to CVC to inquire into purchase orders of aircrafts.
- Supreme Court moved for probe against Videocon in 2G scam
An application was moved in the Supreme Court seeking to bring Videocon group within the ambit of CBI probe in the 2G scam.
- Kanimozhi's NGO got huge donation from telcos, SC told
The SC was today told that the NGO of Kanimozhi received huge donations from telecom companies which were granted licence during the tenure...
- Govt asked to respond to plea for preserving Radia tapes
The Supreme Court today asked the government to respond to the plea for not destroying the tapes containing conversation between corporate ...