CHENNAI: Law has empowered the Enforcement Directorate (ED) only to ‘inquire’, and not to investigate. And the central agency has no power to seek custody of an accused either, argued senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing TN Minister V Senthil Balaji in Madras high court on Tuesday.The legal status of the ED has been clarified by…

NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress looks set to sweep the violence-scarred three-tier panchayat elections. See Also: West Bengal Panchayat Election Result 2023 Live UpdatesAs per data released by the State Election Commission (SEC) at 7.30pm, the ruling TMC has won in 18,606 gram panchayat seats out of the 27,985 seats declared, besides leading in 8,180…

CHENNAI: Weed out ‘potency test’ in sexual offence cases and stop ‘two-finger’ tests on victims of sexual assault cases, the Madras high court has told Tamil Nadu police.“Science has improved and it is possible to conduct this test (potency) by just collecting the blood sample,” said a division bench of Justice N Anand Venkatesh and…

NEW DELHI: The July 8 panchayat election was marked by violence on a large scale with about 20 people being killed on the day alone and about 40 people lost their lives in a month – since the June 8 notification. In a unique development, while the main opposition BJP, CPM and Congress blamed the…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Union government to file an affidavit in two weeks to justify the ‘services ordinance’ it promulgated on May 19 to wrest control of bureaucracy in the national capital, but refused the Arvind Kejriwal government’s plea to stay its operation. Delhi Ordinance: Supreme Court refuses to grant…

NEW DELHI: Reprimanding lawyers representing warring Kuki and Meitei ethnic groups for trying to use the Supreme Court as a platform to further escalate violence in trouble-torn Manipur, a CJI DY Chandrachud-led bench on Monday said it can ameliorate humanitarian issues faced by violence-affected persons but cannot take over law and order and security apparatus…

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court dismissed on Monday a writ petition filed by Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Mukti Nirman Trust requesting the court to direct the Mathura civil judge to decide its application for a scientific survey of the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Masjid Idgah premises before deciding the objections raised against the suit by the opposing parties…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday set aside an order by the Centre revoking the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status of Sweden-based academic Ashok Swain.HC said the February 2022 order of the central government “does not give any reasons” and “hardly gives any indication of application of mind”.“Other than repeating the section…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday set aside an order by the Centre revoking the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status of Sweden-based academic Ashok Swain.HC said the February 2022 order of the central government “does not give any reasons” and “hardly gives any indication of application of mind”.“Other than repeating the section…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition challenging a Delhi high court order which had upheld the Reserve Bank of India’s decision not to seek identity proof of persons while depositing the to-be-scrapped Rs 2,000 currency notes in banks in exchange for the value in currency notes of smaller denominations.Refusing…