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The Petition said that this has been confirmed by the Municipal Corporation. Sealing orders were also issued by the authority in the year 2015 , but in spite of this the illegal construction went on unabated.

The Karnataka High Court on Monday stayed the government order dated August 31, to drop 61 Criminal Cases against Ministers, MLAs.

the judicial officers appointed for the special courts (to deal with criminal cases related to MPs and MLAs) must be allowed to continue for a period of 2 years and then transferred

New Delhi (ILNS): The Uttarakhand High Court has stayed the arrest of MLA Mahesh Negi. The MLA had filed a petition in court for cancellation of the FIR lodged against him in a sexual abuse and also asking for protection against arrest. The court has directed the MLA to cooperate in the investigation.

The Orissa High Court has started suo motu proceedings on pending cases against former and sitting MPs and MLAs and their expeditious disposal, in wake of the recent Supreme Court directions.

The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions to the chief justices of every high court in order to ensure expeditious disposal of pending criminal cases against the Legislators (MPs and MLAs). The directives included advice to the chief justices to personally oversee such cases.

Article 174 confers a governor with the power to summon, prorogue or dissolve an assembly. But has the Rajasthan impasse shown that this constitutional authority has misused his discretionary powers?

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We’ve seen popularly elected state governments come and go through the device popularly known in India as “horse-trading”

Today, the Supreme Court bench of Justices Mrs R. Banumathi, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose dismissed a bail cancellation appeal by Singh’s son Hemant, saying that it was filed without any proper ground and the order of Delhi High Court was declared proper.