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Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Apoorva Mandhani March 28, 2018 11:35 pm Change Font Size In an unprecedented move, the Indian National Congress, along with some other opposition parties, has initiated the process for impeachment of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. Sources have been quoted as saying that the Congress, backed by the Left, the NCP, the DMK and other regional parties, is set to move the impeachment motion in Parliament in the next few days if it is able to garner the mandatory signatures of a minimum 50 MPs. As per the Bar and Bench report the following charges have been listed for initiating the proceedings: The facts and circumstances relating to the Prasad Educational Trust case, show prima facie evidence suggesting that Chief Justice Dipak Misra may have been involved in the conspiracy of paying illegal gratification in the case, which at least warrants a thorough investigation. The draft raises questions on the manner in … [Read more...] about Impeachment Motion Against CJI Dipak Misra: Medical College Bribery Case, Allotment Of Matters And More: Here Are The Allegations In The Draft Note

Armed with the in-house committee report that made adverse remarks against Allahabad High Court Judge, Justice Narayan Shukla, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has written to the President’s Secretariat requesting them to initiate removal proceedings against the Judge. A probe against Justice Shukla was initiated by the CJI in November last year, and a three-member committee, comprising Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Sikkim High Court Chief Justice S.K. Agnihotri, and Madhya Pradesh High Court’s Justice PK Jaiswal was set up. He was then investigated for granting permission to a private medical college to admit students despite a ban by the Medical Council of India as well as Supreme Court orders against such permission. The committee recently concluded its probe, and reportedly made certain adverse remarks against him, finding that he had “disgraced the values of judicial life, acted in a manner unbecoming of a judge, lowered the … [Read more...] about Medical College Bribery Case: RTI Reply Reveals CJI Wrote To President’s Secretariat For Removal Of Allahabad HC Judge

Putting to rest the controversy surrounding the appointment of warden in Delhi University’s Daulat Ram College, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the governing body of the college to initiate the process of appointment of warden within two weeks. Justice Sunil Gaur held the appointment of last warden Dr Asha to be irregular. The court disposed of the petition moved by Dr Asha with direction to “the Governing Body of respondent-College to initiate the process of appointment of Warden in the Hostel of respondent-College within a period of two weeks by inviting fresh applications via Public Notice on official website of respondent-College, for the post of Warden in question and it be placed before the Staff Council of respondent-College, who shall make recommendation for the post of Warden in the College Hostel within a period of four weeks and the said recommendation be considered by the Governing Body of respondent-College within two weeks thereafter, so that the post … [Read more...] about Delhi HC Orders For Expeditious Appointment Of Daulat Ram College Girls’ Hostel Warden As Per Rules [Read Judgment]

Former Orissa High Court Judge I.M. Qudussi has petitioned the Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, demanding that The Wire, Times of India and ABP News be barred from publishing any news on the medical college bribery scam, except for the court orders passed in the case. When the matter came up for hearing on Tuesday, the Court adjourned the proceedings to March 11, as ABP news had not been served. Mr. Qudussi’s Petition refers to an article titled “Medical College Bribery Scam: CBI Tapes Talk of ‘Prasad’ for ‘Temple’ in Delhi, Allahabad”, published by The Wire on 15 January. The Article alleged that transcripts of purported conversations between the three accused persons – Mr. I.M. Qudussi, middleman Vishwanath Agarwala and B.P. Yadav of the Prasad Education Trust – in the medical college bribery scam reveals that college officials had, in fact, planned to bribe senior functionaries of the Supreme Court and the Allahabad High Court in … [Read more...] about Medical College Bribery Case: Former Orissa HC Judge I.M. Qudussi Petitions Delhi Court For Media Gag Order [Read Petition]