After quashing the CVC appointment, the Supreme Court, in a successive blow to the Centre, questioned its action in transferring three officers of the directorate of enforcement probing the black money trail, and asked the government why it should not go in for “custodial interrogation” of those black account holders whose names were known to it.

While the CBI in a fresh status report to the Supreme Court indicated that 63 persons, including CEOs of at least 10 telecom companies, have come under its probe into the 2G scam case, the attorney-ge

While the CBI in a fresh status report to the Supreme Court indicated that 63 persons, including CEOs of at least 10 telecom companies, have come under its probe into the 2G scam case, the attorney-general countered the charge that he had in his legal opinion cleared the allotment of 2G spectrum by former communications minister A. Raja.

In a bid to get the elections to the revived Tamil Nadu Legislative Council held before the Assembly polls fixed for April 13 by the Election Commission, the DMK-led coalition in the state on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking the recall of its February 21 order staying the LC polls till July.

In a major setback to the DMK-led coalition’s efforts to have the first elections to revived legislative council in Tamil Nadu before the Assembly polls, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed it at least till July after the Election Commission sought certain clarification about the previous order of the Supreme Court.

With the country facing external threats and problems of insurgency and the intelligence agencies often found wanting in measuring up to the challenge as had happened in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Not being the “professional killers” has been seen by the Supreme Court as a valid reason for reducing the death sentence into rigorous life sentence of two “supari killers” of a Jharkhand MLA. They were hired by a coal mafia to bump the legislator for taking on them and exposing their massive coal theft racket.

The CBI on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking inclusion of the charge of criminal conspiracy against BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders, including L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi, in the Babri masjid demolition case even as the top court had clarified the position of the law on the vital issue in a verdict in March 2007.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the petitions of SP leader Mulayam Singh and his family members seeking review of the top court’s 2007 order for CBI investigation into their assets.

Almost all the law enforcement agencies have been put on the dock by country’s second largest telecom service provider Reliance Communications in an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the telephone tapping controversy as the company accused them of flouting the rules laid down by the department of telecom on the interception of telephonic messages.