Though the Supreme Court has enumerated violation of various laws by former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in blocking the registration of an FIR against the kin of a Congress MLA in an

The Supreme Court order asking the CBI to register separate FIR in respect of issuing spectrums between 2001 and 2007 would cover the award of 159 licences under the Unified Access Service Licence scheme, which will include the NDA regime up to May 2004 when it allowed amalgamation of the technologies for the purpose of granting of the UASLs.

While widening the investigation on the spectrum issue, the Supreme Court in its order has given enough indications of how former communications minister A. Raja had virtually bulldozed awarding of the 2G licences by showing great alacrity in processing the matter since he took over the ministry in May 2007.

The Supreme Court, in a seven-fold direction on Thursday, extended the 2G scam investigation by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate back to 2001 to cover allotment of spectrum during the NDA regime too and asked the income-tax department to hand over a complete analysis of the “Radia tapes” to the CBI as early as possible to speed up the probe.

The controversy over former minister A. Raja’s alleged attempt to influence a Madras high court judge over his two relatives’ bail became murkier on Wednesday with former Chief Justice of India K.G.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday partially stayed the Madras high court order suspending advocate R.K. Chandramohan from the chairmanship of Tamil Nadu and Pudducherry Bar Council for allegedly trying to act as middleman on behalf of former commutations minister A. Raja to “influence” a judge in the case of bail of his relatives in June 2009.

The controversy over former communications minister A. Raja’s alleged attempt to influence a Madras high court judge in the case of his two relatives’ bail on Wednesday became murkier with former Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan stating that he had not “suppressed” anything on the issue and there was no reason to act against the former minister.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing on the petition for removal of the trial judge in Gujarat riots’ Gulberg Society massacre case till the state high court’s Chief Justice take an administrative decision on an application submitted to him for identical relief.

Supreme Court Justice H.L. Gokhale, a former chief justice of the Madras high court, on Tuesday virtually put former Chief Justice of India K.G.

Supreme Court Justice H.L. Gokhale, a former chief justice of the Madras high court, on Tuesday virtually put former Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan in the dock over former communications minister A. Raja’s alleged attempt to influence a high court judge in a bail case involving two of his relatives in 2009.