Poll campaign: No interim bail for 2020 riots accused Tahir Hussain as SC gives split verdictThe Supreme Court delivered a split verdict on Delhi riots accused Tahir Hussain's interim bail plea to campaign for assembly polls. While ...
22 Jan, 2025, 04.39 PM IST
Prisoners' voting rights: Supreme Court issues notice to CentreThe petitioner, Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya, has contended that the wording of Section 62(5) of the Act used confinement as a yardstick to...
01 Nov, 2022, 12.39 AM IST
HC to pronounce order on June 17 on pleas of Malik, Deshmukh seeking nod to vote in Maha MLC pollsDuring the day's hearing, senior counsel Amit Desai, who appeared for Malik, said the minister's case was a simple request for going under ...
16 Jun, 2022, 05.54 PM IST
New Bill to collect prisoners' physical, biological samplesThe opposition questioned the legislative competence of the House to decide on the matter and called the proposed provisions draconian and ...
29 Mar, 2022, 12.09 AM IST
Why forging political and social alliances is no substitute for building basic democracyElections are a necessary condition for democracy, not a sufficient one. Democracy would call for several things that our polity sadly lack...
16 Mar, 2022, 12.00 AM IST
View: Recent violations of democracy also offer a chance to build a new IndiaThere have recently been instances of extreme violation of democracy. But they are also invitations to expand democracy by resisting them.
14 Jun, 2017, 06.42 AM IST
No plan to allow undertrials cast vote: GovernmentGowda informed Lok Sabha in a written response that there are no plans to amend the Representation of People Act for the purpose.
10 Dec, 2015, 03.58 PM IST
10 of the BJP's 165 first-time MPs: I do not lie to my voters and I do not over-promise, says Poonam MahajanPoonam Mahajan is having a great time attending Parliament. “It’s like school. It’s Right Track been a great learning experience,” she says.
14 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Supreme Court rejects plea on restraining jailbirds from contesting pollThe Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging an amendment in Representation of People's Act allowing jailbirds, except convicts, to...
05 Dec, 2014, 06.24 PM IST
Don’t arrest Muslims in terror cases wrongly: Sushil Kumar ShindeBJP termed Shinde’s letter to states unconstitutional and communally divisive, asks him to withdraw it.
01 Oct, 2013, 05.58 AM IST
Judicial over-reach: Liberty a gift of the law?The Patna High Court had ruled that “a right to vote is a statutory right. The law gives it, the law takes it away.”
15 Jul, 2013, 05.00 AM IST
Persons can't fight polls for legislative bodies from jail: Supreme CourtA person, who is in jail or in police custody, cannot contest election to legislative bodies, the Supreme Court has held.
11 Jul, 2013, 09.43 PM IST
- Prez poll: Tainted MPs could lose vote
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a PIL seeking direction to the Election Commission to bar jailed MPs and MLAs from casting votes i...
18 Jul, 2007, 05.09 AM IST