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Hold senior bureaucrats accountable for lapses: Allahabad High Court to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathThe Allahabad High Court has called for accountability from senior bureaucrats from Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been ...
‘Rats ate bribe money’: Supreme Court grants bail to govt officer in Rs 10,000 bribery caseA unique courtroom drama unfolded in India as the Supreme Court granted bail to a government officer, citing an unexpected reason: rats had...
Resignations and firings have depleted the FBI and Justice Department. They're scrambling to rebuildThe FBI and Justice Department are facing significant staff shortages. To address this, they are lowering hiring requirements and speeding ...
SC dismisses contempt plea on asset disclosureThe Supreme Court has dismissed a contempt plea against the central government. The plea alleged the government failed to enforce its 2018 ...
Time has come to revisit verdict on prior sanction to prosecute SC, HC judges: Vice-President DhankharVice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has called for a reevaluation of the K Veeraswami judgment, which mandates prior sanction to prosecute judg...
Preliminary inquiry not mandatory in every case under Prevention of Corruption Act: SCThe Supreme Court has stated that a preliminary inquiry is not mandatory in every case lodged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The c...
MUDA Scam: As Siddaramaiah faces setback in HC, CM says he will decide on future course of actionChief Minister Siddaramaiah will decide his next legal steps after the High Court dismissed his challenge against Governor Thawarchand Gehl...
SC seeks report from Madras HC on delayed detailed judgment post retirement of judgeThe Supreme Court has asked the registrar general of the Madras High Court to submit a report after the CBI claimed that a judge issued a b...
Direct evidence not must for conviction of public servant for corruption, says Supreme CourtDelivering the judgment, a five-judge constitution bench of Justices Abdul Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and BV Nagarathn...
Haven't challenged abolition of ACB, clarifies Basavaraj BommaiKarnataka's main contractors' body had recently written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that its members had to pay 40% bribe to h...
With HC spotlight on corruption in Karnataka, BJP promises to implement its 2018 poll promise nowBoth Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and the BJP state unit denied reports that the government had challenged the high court judgment in th...
Pakistan court to deliver judgment in two corruption cases against Nawaz SharifThe apex court initially set six month deadline to conclude the cases but it was subsequently increase around eight times on the request of...
Don’t Witch Hunt Bankers: Corruption Act must be amended, else decision making will be frozenPrinciple of a justice system is that even if a thousand guilty go scot free, not one innocent should be punished inadvertently.
Two months for J Jayalalithaa advocates, not a single day for me: BV Acharya, Special Public ProsecutorKarnataka was not even a party to the case, he said, and added that the state was denied an opportunity to appoint a public prosecutor.
Meritorious career no ground to drop corruption case: Supreme CourtThe inspector, B Muralidhar, was trapped by anti-corruption unit of Andhra Pradesh Police after he demanded a bribe of Rs 5,000.
Supreme Court takes stern view on corruptionWhile it’s up to the judge to weigh Lalu’s involvement as a public servant, SC since the mid-1980s has taken a stern view of corruption’s i...
- Government delayed action on 2G: Justice AK Ganguly
The matter was pending with the government for 16 months. We have now issued guidelines, says AK Ganguly