State government has to suffer for its inaction: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that a state government will have to account for its inactions and cannot make people suffer for it, ruling in a Bihar land owner’s case that was re-opened in Patna High Court simply because an earlier verdict had not been published in government records. ‘If the state government did not  [ Read More ]

Gujarat riots: SIT to probe officials’ inaction

The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases in Gujarat to investigate allegations of inaction by the state government during the carnage at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society. The court order came on a complaint filed by Zakia related storiesModi’s statement to remain confidential: SC tells SIT Nasim,  [ Read More ]