High Court rejects writ for dismissal of Shatrughan’s election

A petition seeking cancellation of election of actor-politician Shatrughan Singha from Patna Saheb parliamentary seat has been rejected by The Patna High Court rejected Justice V N Sinha did not find merit in the petition of one Ghanshyam Lal Jamuar who had demanded cancellation of the poll in the constituency in 2009 in which Shatrughan Sinha was elected.  [ Read More ]

Carrying forward rule in sugar industry

RATIONALE BEHIND THE CARRYING FORWARD OF UNLIFTED LEVY SUGAR COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE Under the present regulated release mechanism for sugar industry, the centre fixes the quota of levy sugar and non levy sugar. Levy sugar being the quota/percentage of sugar to be kept aside for distribution through public distribution channels by producers. As per the Clause  [ Read More ]

Bihar to move Supreme Court against massacre case acquittal

Bihar will file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Patna High Court verdict acquitting 23 men convicted for the 1996 massacre of 21 people by the upper-caste Ranvir Sena in Bhojpur district, a minister said Wednesday. Bihar Schedule Castes/Schedule Tribes Welfare Minister Jeetan Ram Manjhi said here that the government will file an  [ Read More ]

Protests in Bihar against acquittal of massacre accused

Hundreds of people in Bihar took to the streets Tuesday against a Patna High Court verdict acquitting 23 men convicted for the 1996 massacre of 21 people, mostly women and children, by the upper-caste Ranvir Sena in Bhojpur district. The Patna High Court had Monday acquitted the three sentenced to death and 20 given life  [ Read More ]

High Court rejects demand for CBI probe into pending ”DC Bills Case”

Patna High Court rejected the Public Interest Litigation Petition (PIL) seeking CBI probe into the alleged misappropriation of Rs 11,854 crore withdrawn under various development schemes for which the government has not submitted the Detailed Contingent (DC) bills. Hearing the petition, a division bench, comprising justices P C Verma and A K Trivedi, turned down  [ Read More ]

Land scam: Court seeks Bihar government’s response

The Patna High Court Tuesday directed the Bihar government to file its response to a public suit seeking a probe in an alleged scam of land allotment to the family members of ruling alliance’s leaders. The court fixed Jan 17, 2012 for the next hearing. The petition, filed by a local lawyer, said that the  [ Read More ]

Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar to be prosecuted

A suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, whose house was confiscated and turned into a primary school, will be prosecuted for having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, an official said Thursday.   An official in the Chief Minister’s Office here said the central government has cleared the proposal of the Bihar government  [ Read More ]

Graft charges may spell trouble for Nitish Kumar

A petition filed in the Patna high court for re-hearing a public suit on alleged financial irregularities of Rs 11,412 crore, with fingers pointed at chief minister Nitish Kumar and 46 others, has got the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD(U)) worried. The petition was filed on Monday, nearly nine months after the state high court stayed  [ Read More ]

Thousands of Bihar lawyers strike against evening courts

Thousands of lawyers in Bihar Tuesday began a weeklong strike to protest against evening courts that were introduced in the state in December last year. Bihar State Bar Council chairman Baleshwar Prasad Sharma said nearly 80,000 lawyers have joined the strike. The lawyers, including those from the Patna High Court, district courts and subdivisional courts,  [ Read More ]