The judiciary should not try to act as a super legislature, Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia said on Saturday. He also asked the political leadership to resist from giving protection to corrupt judges.

With the installation of instrument landing system at Ahirwan Airport here, the flight service on Kanpur-Kolkata route is set to start from April 27.

On Friday, when the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen, a doctor who was sentenced to life for links with Maoists and disputed sedition charges, the members of the civil society while welcoming back Dr Sen to the “free world”, said they had every reason to believe that the bail will only “reach its logical end” and that Sen will finally be acquitted.

Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kantilal Bhuria on Saturday demanded that all allotments of land by the BJP government in the state to organisations run either by the ruling party or the RSS should be cancelled immediately.

The Friday’s verdict by Supreme Court granting bail to eminent civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, has given hope to two other activists, Kolkata-based businessman Pijush Guha and Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal — both of whom are undergoing life sentence along with Dr Sen in Raipur Central jail after being convicted of sedition by a local court here on December 24.

Vice Admiral D.K. Joshi, the present Chief of the integrated staff committee, would now take over as the commander-in chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command.

Law minister M. Veerappa Moily’s views on the country’s sedition law after the Supreme Court granted bail to human rights activist Binayak Sen on Friday were echoed by human rights activists who have demanded that the government immediately take steps to repeal the draconian law.

Elated over grant of bail to her human right activists son Dr Binayak Sen, by a Supreme Bench on Friday, who was convicted in a sedition case, his octogenerian ailing mother Anusuya Sen said that the order has restored her confidence in the country’s judiciary.

It is only half-the-battle won by the celebrated rights activist Binayak Sen, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Rai-pur court on December 24, 2010 on charges of sedition, when the SC granted him bail on Friday. Mr Sen is expected to move the trial court at Raipur on Monday to get the nod for the execution of the bail order by the apex court, since Saturday is a holiday for the court.

The BJP on Friday said it respects Supreme Court’s decision granting bail to Binayak Sen but maintained that the case in connection with his alleged involvement in Naxal activities is still on in the Chhattisgarh high court and hoped that the trial will be held on merit. A Chhattisgarh court had convicted Sen and sentenced him to life