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Ex-CBI chief’s visitors log genuine – SC panel

NEWS SCAN A Supreme Court-appointed committee, led by former Special Director of the CBI M.L. Sharma, has concluded that a visitors’ logbook, maintained at the official residence of the former chief of the country’s premier investigative agency, Ranjit Sinha, is genuine.The damaging conclusion provides ammunition

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SC ends impunity for armed forces

NEWS SCAN Every death caused by the armed forces in a disturbed area, whether the victim is a dreaded criminal or a militant or a terrorist or an insurgent, should be thoroughly enquired into, the Supreme Court held on Friday. This is to address any

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SC refuses urgent hearing on plea of convicted BSP leader

NEWS SCAN The Supreme Court today refused to grant an urgent hearing to a plea of former Uttar Pradesh MP Umankant Yadav seeking suspension of his conviction and seven years sentence in a forgery case to enable him to contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state in 2017. The

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Observes SC judge,Only ill-gotten assets a crime

NEWS SCAN Acquisition of assets per se is not a crime unless proved that the source of funds is illegal, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday, while hearing the wealth case involving Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. In the first hearing after Ms. Jayalalithaa was