GODHRA CASE: SC SEEKS GUJARAT GOVT’S

REPLY ON SOME CONVICTS’ BAIL PLEAS

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Gujarat government’s response on the bail pleas of some convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared in the matter on behalf of the Gujarat government, that it was not “merely a stone-pelting” case as the convicts had bolted a bogey of the Sabarmati Express, leading to the death of several passengers on the train.

SC JUDGE RECUSES

FROM PLEA AGAINST

BAIL TO MAJITHIA a complaint with the police and demanded a probe into a sex scandal against Jarkiholi, while he was Karnataka’s Major and Medium Water Resources Minister.

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Monday recused himself from hearing an appeal filed by the Punjab government against the high court order granting bail to SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a drug case. As a bench took up the appeal of the Punjab govt, Justice Kant said he was part of the high court bench which had directed the setting up of a special task force to probe the case.

“The victim woman was offered a job in the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. Upon reaching the pre-decided location, the woman was sexually assaulted and now is being threatened by the minister and his people,” Kallahalli had stated earlier.

NO OPPN UNITY AS KEY LEADERS SKIP BJY’S CONCLUDING EVENT IN SRINAGAR