Express News Service Posted online: Saturday , Jan 30, 2010 at 0251 hrs Chandigarh : The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has unanimously decided to file a protest petition against the closure report filed by the CBI in the ‘cash-at-judge-door’ case.
New Delhi : In a rare outburst, a sitting High Court Judge has alleged that “a vocal and aggressive Executive Government is attempting to regulate and take over Judiciary, even by corrupting the Judiciary.”
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it will consider on March 25 the plea for taking suo motu cognizance of contempt action against noted advocate Prashant Bhushan who was issued with a notice for allegedly casting aspersions on a senior apex court judge and previous chief justices of India.
Top jurists on Monday opposed the inclusion of senior Supreme Court lawyer P.P. Rao in the three-member probe panel to inquire into the corruption allegations against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran.
It was no coincidence that three independent inquiries conducted by the police, the CBI and an in-house judges’ panel into the cash-at-judge’s doorstep case had a common conclusion: Justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had received an unaccounted cash packet of Rs 15 lakh in mid-August of 2008.
The Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, on Sunday said he was not opposed to the Right to Information (RTI) Act and did not want any exemptions from it. Also, the Supreme Court had not yet decided if it should challenge the Delhi High Court judgment on the issue.
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge V.S. Sirpurkar will head a three-member committee that will investigate the grounds for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran whose removal from office has been sought jointly by 75 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on corruption and land-grabbing charges.
New Delhi, Jan. 16 (PTI): The Chief Justice of India today defended his decision to seek a daily allowance for his wife when the couple recently went on a foreign tour, saying it was being provided for several years.
New Delhi: Attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati today sought to dispel the impression that he was keen to challenge the Delhi High Court judgment on the judges' assets issue, saying that the full Bench itself was of the view that substantial questions of public importance have to be decided by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has sent a panel of four names — two Supreme Court judges and two High Court Chief Justices — to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Hamid Ansari, to enable him to select two persons to be in the three-member team to probe the allegations against Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran.
CBI hands tied against judge, Hindustan Times, Jan 8, 2010
Judicial Degeneration must be checked, Hindustan Times, Jan 8, 2010
Karnataka High Court judge D V Shylendra Kumar has fired another salvo at the top judiciary on the efficacy of its "moral authority" in ensuring that erring judges fall in place.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court reserved its verdict on an appeal filed by the Supreme Court challenging its order which had held that office of Chief Justice of India comes within the purview of Right to Information Act and details of judges’ assets should be revealed
In an unprecedented incident, agitating advocates on Monday disrupted proceedings in the court hall of the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, P.D. Dinakaran, shouted slogans against him and forced him to adjourn the court for some time.
Can judges hear matter of companies they hold shares in? The Supreme Court says yes, but only if litigants fail to raise any objection to the hearing of a case by a judge who happens to be a shareholder of the company embroiled in the litigation, said Justice SH Kapadia on Monday, adding that the matter then cannot be raised later.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has dropped the name of Karnataka High Court Justice PD Dinakaran from the list of those recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court.
A decision has been taken to close the case against Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Nirmal Yadav in the cash-at-doorstep scam.
The land-grabbing case against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran has taken a new turn.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Sunday deferred for the time being its decision with regard to the allegations against Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran, whose elevation as judge of the Supreme Court has been put on hold.
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of Karnataka P.D. Dinakaran, whose elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court has been put on hold, on Saturday declined to comment on the allegations of encroachment of government land and acquisition of other immovable assets levelled against him by the Forum for Judicial Accountability (FJA).
New Delhi: Law Minister Veerappa Moily on Saturday unveiled the Centre’s ‘vision statement’ containing a package of judicial reforms to reduce pendency of cases from 15 to 3 years and make the justice delivery system efficient, transparent and more accessible to the poor.
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday underlined the need for the formation of an All-India Judicial Service, on the lines of the Central civil services, for improving quality of subordinate courts.
Union Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said that the procedure of appointment of judges may be revisited and no tainted person will be appointed as a judge.
New Delhi: The Union Law Ministry is to process the recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium of judges for elevation of four Chief Justices of High Courts to the Supreme Court.
New Delhi: Information pertaining to appointment of judges to the Supreme Court could not be provided under the Right to Information Act as it was confidential, the Central Principal Information Officer of the Supreme Court has said.
On Saturday afternoon there were attempts to remove the fencing in the disputed property of Karnataka Chief Justice PD Dinakaran in Kaverirajapuram in Thiruvallur district neighbouring Chennai, which is under discrete inquiry instituted by the Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan.
THIRUVALLUR(TN): Suspense mounted on Saturday about whether or not the Karnataka High Court chief justice P D Dinakaran would be elevated to the Supreme Court or even continue as a judge.
On Saturday afternoon there were attempts to remove the fencing in the disputed property of Karnataka Chief Justice PD Dinakaran in Kaverirajapuram in Thiruvallur district neighbouring Chennai, which is under discrete inquiry instituted by the Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan.
Bangalore : Following a heated special general body meeting, the Advocates’ Association of Bangalore on Wednesday decided against boycotting the court of Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who is facing allegations of acquiring disproportionate wealth.
New Delhi : Ending all speculation over the fate of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill, 2009, the Union Ministry of Law and Justice on Wednesday said it would introduce a new Judges (Inquiry) Bill in the coming Session of Parliament. This Bill would also have a clause making it mandatory for judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts to declare their assets on a regular basis to their respective Chief Justices.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal filed by the Supreme Court Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) against a single judge’s order holding that information on assets declared by Supreme Court judges in the possession of the Chief Justice of India would come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. A Bench of Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar admitted the appeal after hearing Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati and counsel Atul Nanda for the appellant and counsel Prashant Bhushan for respondent Subash Chandra Agrawal.
New Delhi : All 33 sitting judges of the Kerala High Court, including the Chief Justice, have posted details of their assets, along with those of their spouses and dependent children, on the HC website. With this, it has become the the first High Court whose judges have made public their assets and liabilities.
BANGALORE: Setting at rest speculation on whether he would preside over or abstain from conducting court proceedings in the light of allegations of corruption levelled against him, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran on Monday attended court and heard matters listed for hearing.
All sitting judges of the Supreme Court have filed declarations of assets in accordance with the May 7, 1997 resolution, the court Registry informed RTI applicant Subash Chandra Agrawal on Monday.
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NEW DELHI: Even as CJI K G Balakrishnan is holding a discreet inquiry into allegations of landgrabbing by prospective SC judge P D Dinakaran, Chennai's Forum for Judicial Accountability (FJA) has come up with more serious evidence of properties allegedly acquired by him and his immediate family members.
BANGALORE: Even as uncertainty continued over whether the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, P.D. Dinakaran, would preside over judicial proceedings from Monday, Advocate-General (AG) Ashok Harnahalli urged him to sit on the Bench and conduct the proceedings.
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has initiated an inquiry into allegations of illegal amassment of huge tracts of land by Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, whose name was recommended to the Centre by the Supreme Court Collegium for elevation as a judge of the SC.
CHENNAI: In a fresh twist to the controversy surrounding Justice Paul Diwakar Dinakaran, a collective of civil rights groups here has questioned his Dalit background, saying he ceased to be a member of the Scheduled Castes ever since he converted to Christianity