Articles tagged with: public interest litigations (PILs)

Advocate files PIL challenging anti-Baba Ramdev police action

Following the political drama surrounding the police lathi charge and alleged atrocities against yoga-guru and social activist Baba Ramdev’s indefinite fast against corruption, advocate Ajay Agrawal has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court alleging violation of various funda...

SC slaps telecoms minister, CBI with 10 days to reply to $12.9bn 2G spectrum scam charges

The Supreme Court has issued notices to the government’s department of telecommunication, telecom minister A Raja and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reply to charges that Raja caused the government losses of Rs 60,000 crore ($12.9bn) by mishandling the 2G spectrum allocation to mobile ...