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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the West Bengal police chief to file a personal affidavit responding to Election Commission’s allegation that governing party TMC functionaries were making systematic, deliberate and concerted attempts to “derail, paralyse and frustrate” the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Though state counsel Menaka Guruswamy strongly refuted the…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has submitted its affidavit over the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in several states, refuting allegations of mass deletion of genuine voters as “highly exaggerated, speculative and politically motivated.”In an 81-page counter-affidavit filed on November 26 in a petition by TMC MP Dola Sen and others, the poll…
Supreme Court (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over the failure of several air quality monitoring stations in Delhi during Diwali, observing that authorities cannot wait for pollution levels to hit the “severe” mark before acting.During the hearing of the MC Mehta case, a bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai…
Inside Arthur Road Jail: Belgian Court shown pictures of barrack where Mehul Choksi may be kept NEW DELHI: India submitted an affidavit to a Belgian court containing detailed architectural drawings and interior photographs of Mumbai’s high-security Arthur Road Jail, where fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi will be lodged following his future extradition in the Punjab National…
TOI correspondent from Washington: The American think-tank community is in shock this week after the US justice department accused Ashley Tellis, a respected Indian-American scholar, of unlawful retention of national defense information and undocumented meetings with Chinese officials. Tellis, 64, a naturalized US citizen and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was…
Shilpa Shetty denied any link to Raj Kundra’s company in a ₹60-crore fraud case. The Bombay High Court rejected her plea to cancel a lookout notice and asked for a written affidavit by October 16. The couple must repay the disputed amount before any further relief is considered. Shilpa Shetty asked the Bombay High Court…
NEW DELHI: Jailed separatist leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik has claimed that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed “gratitude” to him after he met Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006.The separatist leader made the claim in an affidavit filed in the…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Saturday filed an affidavit in Supreme Court declaring that it alone has full discretion to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) or general revision of electoral rolls before a general elections, assembly polls or bye-elections to a constituency.Opposing a PIL by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay requesting SC to direct EC to…
