Articles tagged with: KV Dhananjay

Of course it was a lawyer who finally broke Arnab: Nirav Modi counsel keeps anchor on ropes for 23 minutes

And now for something completely different.“So, Arnab Goswami finally met his match?” Bangalore-based advocate KV Dhananjay told us earlier today on WhatsApp, adding:

Karnataka Lokayukta's son arrested by SIT in Rs 1 cr bribery case

Sleuths of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) today arrested Ashwin Rao, son of Karnataka Lokayukta Justice V Bhaskar Rao, for allegedly seeking Rs.1-crore bribe from a state executive engineer. “A SIT team led by our Superintendent of Police Laburam nabbed Ashwin Rao at Aurangabad in Marathwada r...

KV Dhananjay files writ for CBI to take over corruption probe of K’taka Lokayukta from its own police wing [READ PETITION]

Four members of civil society, represented by Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay, have filed a writ petition in the Karnataka high court praying that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation be started against the Lokayukta of Karnataka, Y Bhaskar Rao and his son Ashwin Y Rao, who are being investigated for corruption charges by the Lokayukta’s internal police force.

One advocate is making a website where lawyers can rate judges on 3 parameters

Dhananjay: Judges are human beings, feedback could help them improve
Dhananjay: Judges are human beings, feedback could help them improve
Karnataka high court and Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay has commissioned a web developer to build a website that is intended to allow advocates to rate judges on three parameters - knowledge, integrity and cordiality.

Justice Gogoi springs new SC meme on Sibal: 'Is your case part of the 7%?'

“Does this case fall in the 93 per cent or in the remaining 7 per cent?” Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi has begun asking the bar increasingly often, reported Utkarsh Anand in the Indian Express . While Kapil Sibal reportedly did not get the reference, Gogoi was referring to recent research by ad...

SC lacks capacity to deliver proper jurisprudence: Only 7% of apex judgments really had anything to do with the constitution in 2014, reveals research

Constitution: Uncared for
Constitution: Uncared for
A group of lawyers analysed 884 judgments handed down by the Supreme Court in the 2014 calendar year and found that only 64, or 7 per cent, involved any substantive constitutional issues.

Many good reasons why ex-CBI chief Ranjit Sinha’s 2G meetings must warrant a criminal investigation against him and his secret visitors

Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that former CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s clandestine meetings with 2G and Coal scam accused were prima facie illegal.

[Opinion] HC rewrites Constitution after Governor defies President’s authority in K’taka PSC ousting

Advocate KV Dhananjay argues that a recent decision of the Karnataka high court in one of his cases amounts to a rewriting of the Constitution of India, which is without parallel or precedent in the constitutional history of India.

Minority Report is not fiction, PreCrime is now the law in Karnataka

Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that the Karnataka legislature’s amendment to the so-called Goonda’s Act is ‘exceedingly dangerous’.

Why the NJAC legal challenges must fail (for now)

KV Dhananjay
KV Dhananjay
Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that the public interest litigations against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill must fail, at least at this point in time…

Advocates, Nalsar, NUJS law grads secure wins in Swami Nityananda scandal aftermath, despite bar exam

Supreme Court advocate K V Dhananjay along with a group of practising 2010 law graduates from Nalsar and NUJS have secured a three-pronged victory for godman Swami Nityananda, including restoring his passport that was impounded following his arrest after an alleged sex scandal involvement in April, and securing an injunction against the publication of a book and a police order.