In stinging observations on the “total neglect” of the tribal population, mainly spread over the Maoist-infested areas of the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said their marginalisation for thousands of years has resulted in reduction of their population to mere 8 per cent though they were the real “original inhabitants” of India.

Janata Party president and former law minister Subramanian Swamy, who already has filed a complaint in a special court here for prosecution of former communications minister A. Raja in the 2G scam case, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court with a fresh petition for cancellation of all the 122 2G licences.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to TRS chief K.C. Rao, his MLA son, daughter and filmstar-turned-politician Vijayashanti and eight others on a contempt petition alleging that an agitation related to Telangna supported by lawyers inspired by them had “obstructed” the functioning of the AP HC during September 2010, which

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Seven prominent personalities, six of whom had held high constitutional posts, in a fresh petition moved in the Supreme Court have sought cancellation of all 122 2G spectrum licences allotted by DoT under former telecom minister A. Raja while terming the notices issued to 69 allottees under the aegis of new minister Kapil Sibal an attempt to “obfuscate” the entire issue.

With the submission of the report on the contentious Telangana issue by the five-member Srikrishna Committee, Justice B.N. Srikrishna heading the panel has achieved a distinction of sort to probe into the most controversial issues of recent times while some other judges had refrained from taking up the challenge due to the high political stakes involved.

In an important ruling on evidentiary value of the dying declaration, the Supreme Court has held that the last minute statement of the murder victim is a solid ground for registering an FIR against the accused person named by the deceased and even sufficient to convict the assailant if all the witnesses have turned hostile in the court of law.

The corporate entities could not escape public scrutiny by the media in the free market economy is the important question of law raised by the Chennai Press Club in its petition in the Supreme Court, which has admitted it to allow the club to become a party in the case for probing the leak of Radia tapes by Ratan Tata.

Former communications minister A. Raja, who faced the CBI for the first time on Friday after the registration of the FIR in the 2G spectrum scam case more than a year ago, is bound to be confronted by the agency sleuths with at least 12 alleged deviations pointed out by the Supreme Court in its order laying down guidelines for the probe agencies to go deep into the matter and expediting the inquiry.

The Supreme Court’s pressure seems to be working on the investigating agencies in the 2G scam case with the latest visible actions regarding the questioning of some key figures as the investigators exactly have 52 days in hand to show some real results in the status reports to the top court, which was very critical of the Delhi high court for not giving the 2G spectrum issue a serious consideration it deserved.