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Pegasus snooping row: AG declines consent to initiate contempt proceedings
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): The Attorney General of India KK Venugopal has refused to grant consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against the directors of the NSO Group for alleged surveillance of a Supreme Court judge and some officials by using Israeli software Pegasus.
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AG Venugopal declines consent for initiation of contempt proceedings again
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): The Attorney-General of India KK Venugopal on Thursday refused to grant consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against the National President of Azad Samaj Party Chandra Shekhar Azad for his comments levelling allegations against the judges of t
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Attorney General declines permission to initiate contempt proceedings agai
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): The Attorney General of India KK Venugopal has refused to grant consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Tripura's Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb for his remarks allegedly made against the authority of courts.
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Court's power of contempt can't be taken away even by legislative enactmen
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): While observing that the Court's power to punish for contempt cannot be taken away even by legislative enactment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held the chairperson of a non-profit organisation (NGO) guilty of contempt of court for not depositing Rs 25
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Do not fear contempt of court, work for people: Tripura CM tells officials
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], September 27 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has sparked a controversy after he asked civil service officials and executives to work for the people without "worrying about contempt of court" as the government is not run by the court.
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Disrupting parliamentary proceedings is contempt of House, can't be privil
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday that disruption of proceedings clearly amount to contempt of the House, by the logic of which disruption cannot be claimed as a privilege by errant members. The statement from the Vice President came in
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Disruption is Contempt of the House, says RS Chairman Venkaiah Naidu
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): In a first by any Presiding Officer of the legislatures in the country and in the context of rising disruptions, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday unequivocally held that disruptions of proceedings amount to "contempt of the House" an
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SC reserves judgment on contempt proceedings on Rajiv Dahiya for non-compl
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment as to whether the contempt proceedings should be initiated by it against Rajiv Dahiya, Managing Director of Rajasthan-based Non-Governmental Organisation, Suraz India Trust, for not complying with its orde
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SC pulls up Centre over reducing terms of members, Chairmen of Tribunals u
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Expressing its strongest displeasure over the way the Centre had enacted the Tribunal Reforms Act by reducing the terms of members and Chairmen of Tribunals, the Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Centre and said that the Central government has no res
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Andhra HC sentences 5 IAS officers to jail terms, imposes fines for contem
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 2 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday sentenced five Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in the state to jail terms for contempt of court and also imposed penalties on them.
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SC to hear petitions seeking to initiate contempt of court against RBI Gov
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Supreme Court on Thursday would hear a batch of petitions seeking to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the RBI Governor, Shaktikant Das, Chief Executive of Indian Banks Association (IBA) and others concerned for allegedly flouting the apex c
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta refuses to initiate contempt proceedings ag
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 15 (ANI): Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta on Saturday refused to grant his consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju for his alleged remarks on the fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi extradition
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