The Reliance Communications coming under Supreme Court scrutiny on the tapping of former SP leader Amar Singh’s phone on alleged “forged” letters of Delhi government and the Delhi police, on Monday to

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the CBI on the petition of two Naval officers facing charges in the “war room leak” case for supply of certain documents to them.

After holding that the mere membership of a banned organisation was not enough to prove the culpability of such members in any terror attack, the Supreme Court has gone a step further declaring that t

The Supreme Court decision awarding former Kerala power minister R. Balakrishnan Pillai one year’s rigorous imprisonment in a graft case has come at a very crucial stage — when the country is facing scams like those involving 2G spectrum allocation, the CWG and the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society — as the verdict has laid down stringent tests to evaluate decisions of the executive authority and the “misuse of power” by them in the allocation of national resources.

The Amar Singh phone tapping case on Friday took a new turn with the Supreme Court taking serious view of Reliance Communications putting his phone on surveillance on a forged letter of the Delhi home secretary and asked the Centre why the licence of the service provider was not cancelled for such a casual approach.

The CBI and the Enforcement Directorate, in their 2G scam status reports, gave elaborate details about alleged illegalities by former communications minister A. Raja and three other arrested accused to the Supreme Court on Thursday, which termed the scam as big as the Harshad Mehta securities fraud of 1991-92 and urged the government to set up a special court for its trial.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the validity of CVC P.J. Thomas’ appointment indicating that it might lay down guidelines to fill the gaps in the CVC Act to ensure that no person with doubtful credential is ever selected to be the country’s watchdog against corruption.

Despite persistent pressure from the Supreme Court for concrete information about the black money stashed in Swiss banks and other tax heavens, the government affidavit on Wednesday revealed nothing but raised doubt about the figure quoted about the total volume of illegal money deposited by Indians abroad.

Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday found himself in a tight spot in the Supreme Court, which questioned his change of stance in the case of his “CDs” on the change of his political affiliation and virtually pulled him up for “wasting” the precious time of the court if he was to withdraw his allegations against the Congress and its president.

Facing accusation from Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh that he was being targeted by the Congress in the disproportionate assets case due to “political reasons”, the Central government on Tuesday tried to maintain a neutral stand in the Supreme Court on the issue.