The Supreme Court on Thursday called for the details of the two sets of charges framed against Sikkim high court chief justice P.D. Dinakaran in the impeachment process to examine whether the three-member inquiry committee probing the charges had overstepped its limit.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday carried forward the mood set by her son Rahul Gandhi a day earlier when she described Uttar Pradesh as “andher nagari” and said the atrocities on farmers in Greater Noida’s Bhatta-Parsaul had left the country ashamed.

In another embarrassing incident for India’s premier investigating agency CBI, its officers headed off to Copenhagen seeking the extradition of the main accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, Kim Davy, carrying an expired warrant for his arrest. This fact came to light when the defence lawyer found the discrepancy in the government documents.

Another person named as a wanted terrorist on the list handed over to Pakistan by India has been traced to a high-security prison in Mumbai. The new revelation comes as an already embarrassed government was still struggling to control the damage done by the featuring of Thane resident Wazhul Khan on its list of “most wanted” fugitives.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Quashing the charges of a shoe attack by a CRPF head constable on her senior, a sub-inspector, for allegedly making sexual advances towards her, a division bench comprising Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait of the Delhi high court ordered her promotion to the next rank of assistant sub-inspector.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Upholding a sessions court’s earlier order, Justice Mukta Gupta of the Delhi high court on Thursday asked a MTNL employee to serve the three-years jail term for taking `400 in bribe for installing a telephone at a shop.

The government has said that it will carefully look at all suggestions that are being made with regard to the new land acquisition bill which is currently being drafted.
In addition, the suggestions made by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) too will be examined.

Civic society activists on Thursday alleged that chief minister Sheila Dikshit is forcing direct cash subsidy upon the poor people in the capital in place of foodgrains through the public distribution system (PDS).