SC dismisses Jagan’s plea against his arrest in DA case

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition of YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy challenging his arrest in a disproportionate assets (DA) case.  A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai, however, sought response of CBI on a separate petition by Reddy, who is an MP, seeking bail in the matter.  [ Read More ]

SC slashed Haj seats under discretionary, dignitaries quota

The Supreme Court reduced the seats to 300 from the proposed 5,050 recommended under government’s discretionary and dignitaries quota for Haj 2012 pilgrims and hoped representation for them would be made on “reasonable basis”.  A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai limited the number of seats to be allocated under dignitaries quota  [ Read More ]

Supreme Court seeks DGHS response on “manipulation” of medical seats

The Supreme Court today sought the response of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on a girl student’s complaint of large-scale manipulation, hacking and tampering of ongoing online counselling for admission to the all-India seats for post-graduate medical courses. A bench of justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai initially asked the DGHS to  [ Read More ]