The Supreme Court yesterday, the polling day for the Tripura local body elections, had directed to ensure the security at the polling booths by sending more companies of Central Armed Police Force personnel in each of the 770 polling booths in Tripura, but the Supreme Court orders were not complied......
The Supreme Court has said that the Union of India and states should complete their final arguments so that an order can be passed since the matter of pendency of criminal cases against MPs & MLAs and expeditious disposal of the same by setting up Special Courts has been pending since 2016.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal made this statement while arguing on behalf of Zakia Jafri, widow of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A ponzi scam accused had moved Supreme Court to club 29 FIRs against him in various states. The Court has asked the Centre to come up with a mechanism to ensure the accused are tried once instead of trial in all FIRs against them.
According to the woman, the accused manipulated and tricked her into joining him in the room of a five-star hotel in the national capital, where he allegedly raped and assaulted her.
The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday heard the State Assembly Speaker's Tribunal plea challenging the High Court's stay of its notice to BJP legislature party leader Babulal Marandi.