Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh, while blaming the office of military secretary for “raking up” his date of birth issue after it was virtually settled by the Army, seems to have put the ball in the court of PMO as well, stating in his petition to the Supreme Court that his promotions from brigadier onwards were cleared by the Appointment Committee of Cabinet, headed by the PM on the basis of May 10, 1951 as his DoB.

The possibility of the Supreme Court summoning entire service record of General V.K. Singh to know the genesis of the controversy from the day it started, could not be ruled out as it is the standard practice followed in the service matters to go at the bottom of a dispute.

The ministry of communications in response to the Supreme Court notice on a petition accusing law minister Salman Khurshid of “interfering” in the 2G scam case probe against a particular company, has come in his strong defence saying the opinion of the law ministry was based on understanding of the facts and law.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and other senior BJP leaders, in a joint affidavit, challenged the CBI’s SLP in the Supreme Court, accusing the agency of attempting to revive an issue that has already been settled by the Supreme Court in its March 22, 2007 judgment.

The Supreme Court on Friday took exception to the counsel for the Centre referring to the Babri Masjid demolition as a “famous case” and asked him to refrain from giving the unfortunate incident such adjectives. BJP leader L.K. Advani and other senior BJP and Sangh leaders, meanwhile, questioned the CBI’s move to slap criminal conspiracy charges against them.

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, fighting perhaps the toughest battle of his political career in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in a bid to bounce back, is keeping his fingers crossed on the much speculated tieup with the Congress in the post-poll scenario as it would largely depend on the Supreme Court judgment on his assets likely to come anytime before January 28.

In an important judgment on the hotly-debated legal question regarding “suspicion” of a murder by the person last seen with the victim, the Supreme Court has held that in such cases the inquest report prepared by the police soon after detecting the murder is very crucial as “genesis” of the crimes emerges form it.

The Supreme Court (SC) questioned Friday the Tamil Nadu government’s authority to ban Dam999. It said states had no power to stop the release of a movie cleared by the censor board for universal exhib

The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the high courts for setting up a new trend of allowing the medical colleges in the country to increase the seats beyond the quota fixed for them by regulator

The Delhi police on Wednesday challenged the acquittal of former Haryana inspector-general (prisons) R.K. Sharma, in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case by the Delhi high court three months ago meeting the mandatory deadline of three months to file the appeal.