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The Gauhati High Court is scheduled to hear the bail plea of Shyamkanu Mahanta on Friday in connection with the death case involving Assamese singer Zubeen Garg.Reports from IANS says that this will be the second hearing of Mahanta’s bail application before the bench headed by Justice Mitali Thakuria. The matter continues to remain one…
Guwahati: Former minister of state for external affairs MJ Akbar highlighted the changing contours of global power, while observing that long-standing international institutions are struggling to retain relevance in an increasingly uncertain and multipolar world. He was delivering the keynote address at a national symposium on ‘West Asia in a Fragmented Global Order: Security Dynamics…
NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Friday rejected Congress leader Pawan Khera’s anticipatory bail plea in a case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The FIR stems from Khera’s allegations that Sharma held multiple foreign passports and undisclosed overseas assets. During the previous hearing, Khera’s counsel, led by…
Guwahati: Gauhati High Court Tuesday directed the state govt and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to respond within four weeks to a bunch of PILs seeking action against the CM for alleged hate speeches against minority communities in the state.A bench of Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury, while hearing three PILs…
Guwahati: The Gauhati high court has appointed an exclusive fast-track sessions court to conduct day-to-day trial proceedings in the Zubeen Garg death case, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.Baksa district judge Sharmila Bhuyan will preside over the fast-track court.In a post on X, Sarma wrote, “Today marks a significant milestone in our…
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court Thursday issued a notice to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on a PIL seeking directions to restrain the CM from allegedly making hate speeches against the minority communities in the state.The PIL filed by Assamese scholar Dr Hiren Gohain and two others said Assam police had not filed any case…
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Thursday issued a notice to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma regarding multiple PILs that allege he made “hate speech.”A division bench, consisting of Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury, heard the three petitions. Notices were also…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain petitions seeking the registration of an FIR and the constitution of an SIT probe against Himanta Biswa Sarma over his ‘target-shooting’ video, and asked the petitioners to approach the Gauhati high court. The apex court questioned why the petitioners had not moved the Gauhati High…
The court was hearing a plea by a man from Assam’s Dhubri district challenging the legality of the arrest and expulsion of his wife to Bangladesh in May last year Guwahati: The Gauhati high court has held that a declared foreigner in custody pending expulsion cannot invoke the rights and safeguards available to Indian citizens…
Karbi Anglong unrest in Assam (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Assam DGP Harmeet Singh on Wednesday confirmed that the Army has been deployed to restore law and order in violence-hit West Karbi Anglong, news agency PTI reported.The region has now entered its third day of violent protests over alleged illegal settlement by non-tribals in the constitutionally…
