SC declines to hear plea against automatic disqualification of convicted MPs, MLAs

SC declines to hear plea against automatic disqualification of convicted MPs, MLAs

[ad_1] New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea challenging the validity of the provision mandating “blanket and automatic” disqualification of legislators upon conviction and sentence. Counsel for petitioner Aabha Muralidharan, contended before Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud that the provision restrains a lawmaker from freely discharging the duties cast … Read more

Video: Man dragged on Lok Sabha MP’s car bonnet for 2-3 km in Delhi

Video: Man dragged on Lok Sabha MP’s car bonnet for 2-3 km in Delhi

[ad_1] Man dragged on Lok Sabha MP’s car bonnet for 2-3 kms in Delhi (Photo: Twitter) New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a car belonging to Lok Sabha MP Chandan Singh was caught on camera driving with a person hanging on the bonnet for around two to three kilometres here, police said on Monday. #WATCH … Read more

Rajasthan man booked for giving triple talaq to wife in MP’s Guna

Rajasthan man booked for giving triple talaq to wife in MP’s Guna

[ad_1] Guna: A man was booked in Guna in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly giving triple talaq to his estranged wife, a police official said. Triple talaq, also called ‘talaq-e-biddat’, is a practice by which a man could divorce his wife by pronouncing the word ‘talaq’ three times without citing any reason for this act. The … Read more

Telangana HC adjourns hearing on Kadapa MP’s anticipatory bail plea

Telangana HC adjourns hearing on Kadapa MP’s anticipatory bail plea

[ad_1] Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Friday adjourned, to June 5, the hearing on the anticipatory bail petition of Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy in former Andhra Pradesh minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case. While the MP’s counsel pleaded to the court to pass an order restraining CBI from taking any harsh measure against … Read more

Bonfire of EU laws watered down to just 800 after meeting of Brexiter MPs

Bonfire of EU laws watered down to just 800 after meeting of Brexiter MPs

[ad_1] The government is to ditch plans to scrap up to 4,000 EU laws by the end of the year after a private meeting with Brexiter MPs. It now aims to remove 800 statutes and regulations, instead of 3,700 laws it had lined up for a “bonfire” of EU law in December, threatening everything from … Read more

Vivekanand murder: CBI custody of Kadapa MP’s father ends

Vivekanand murder: CBI custody of Kadapa MP’s father ends

[ad_1] Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday completed questioning of Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy’s father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and their follower Uday Kumar Reddy in former minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case. After six days of questioning, the CBI presented the two before a court and they were later shifted back to … Read more

Hyderabad: CBI grills Kadapa MP’s father in Viveka murder case for 5th day

Hyderabad: CBI grills Kadapa MP’s father in Viveka murder case for 5th day

[ad_1] Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued questioning Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy’s father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and their follower Uday Kumar Reddy for a fifth day on Sunday in former minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case. The duo was brought from Chanchalguda Jail to the CBI office. The CBI court had sent … Read more

CBI again postpones Kadapa MP’s questioning in Viveka murder case

CBI again postpones Kadapa MP’s questioning in Viveka murder case

[ad_1] Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) postponed questioning of Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy in Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case to Tuesday evening as his petition for anticipatory bail was being heard by the Telangana High Court. The CBI, which had directed Avinash Reddy to appear before the CBI regional office at 10.30 … Read more

CBI defers Kadapa MP’s questioning in Vivekananda murder case

CBI defers Kadapa MP’s questioning in Vivekananda murder case

[ad_1] Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has deferred, to Tuesday, the questioning of Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy in the Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case. When Avinash Reddy reached the CBI regional office in Hyderabad in response to the notice served on him on Sunday, he was informed that the questioning had … Read more

Delhi liquor scam: YSRCP MP’s son tried to derail probe, ED retrieves chats

Delhi liquor scam: YSRCP MP’s son tried to derail probe, ED retrieves chats

[ad_1] YSR Congress party MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy- IANS New Delhi: Raghav Magunta, son of YSR Congress Party MP from Andhra Pradesh’s Ongole Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, recorded false statement before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam and also destroyed crucial evidence to derail the probe, the ED has claimed … Read more