PILs can’t be used to target reputations, for cheap publicity: SC
The Supreme Court Monday said the public interest litigation route could not be taken to target and bring down the reputation of any one person and for gaining cheap publicity The post PILs can’t be...
View ArticleForeign funding for political parties is in public interest: HC
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court Monday observed that a petition filed before it seeking a probe into the foreign contributions to the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other...
View ArticleHC dismisses PIL seeking CBI probe into land deals by Robert Vadra’s firm
The court also noted in its 8-page judgement that the petition has been filed purely on the basis of newspaper reports without producing any material to substantiate the authenticity of the contents of...
View ArticleRock star baba: Move over Salman Khan, saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim is here
Move over Salman Khan, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is here. He may not have the muscles in place, or the conventional macho looks, or that killer appeal, but the saint of Sirsa is convinced that what...
View ArticleInstall CCTVs in prisons, SC tells centre, states
SC directed the central government and all the states to install CCTV cameras in all prisons across the country and take a call on installing them in police lock-ups, if there are incidents. The post...
View ArticleChief secretaries of four states get SC notice for not filing response to...
SC issued show cause notices against four state governments asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them in a PIL on rehabilitation of acid attack victims. The post Chief...
View ArticleNo laughing matter: Lawyer seeking Santa Banta ban also blames Khushwant...
Harvinder Chowdhury spoke to Firstpost about her PIL and circumstances that compelled her to ask for a ban on Santa and Banta jokes. The post No laughing matter: Lawyer seeking Santa Banta ban also...
View ArticleOdd-even formula: Mr Kejriwal do you have answers for these questions?
Co-petitioner Manoj Kumar said instead of tackling the twin challenges of scaling up public transport facilities in the city and improving traffic management systems, the government is taking to a...
View ArticleAfter Supreme Court grills CPIL, it’s time to ask whether PILs are truly in...
The observations of a bench of the Supreme Court, questioning an organisation which has filed a large number of public interest litigations, have brought into focus the nature of such pleas. The post...
View ArticleSoli Sorabjee on PILs: Every matter of public interest cannot be a matter of...
To understand what has gone wrong with PIL, Shishir Tripathi spoke to Former Attorney-General of and eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee on this issue and others issue related to higher judiciary. The post...
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