CBI affidavit puts Law Minister in a spot
New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the UPA government, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha told the Supreme Court that the draft report on coal allocation scam was shared with the Law Ministry, PMO and th
Lokpal: Law Ministry against power to file chargesheet without sanction
Maintaining that it was against the 'principle of protection', the Law Ministry has opposed a provision in the Lokpal Bill which gives the ombudsman power to file chargesheet against a public serva
Law ministry discloses list of 20 HC CJs who were superseded
The Law ministry has disclosed information about Supreme Court judges who were superseded as chief justices of high courts at least once before being elevated to the apex court since 2005 following an order by the Central Information Commission.
Law ministry’s irregular appointment process scrapped
In an embarrassment to the Union law ministry, the Central administrative tribunal has scrapped its appointment process for recruitment of deputy government counsel under prestigious Indian legal service, saying the ministry had "changed the rules of the game midway".