Articles tagged with: TS Thakur
Kapil Sibal fails to convince SC to babysit CBI's Saradha scam probe
The Supreme Court Thursday turned down the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress’s plea for the court monitoring of the CBI probe into Saradha and non-Saradha chit fund scam cases. Noting that there was no allegation by the applicants (West Bengal and Trinamool) that the Central B...
SC holds BCCI is not private but writtable, rules that Srinivasan can't contest BCCI elections because conflicted [READ JUDGMENT]
The Supreme Court today barred sidelined BCCI president N Srinivasan from contesting the election to the Indian cricket board’s governing body presidency as long as he is involved in a “conflict of interest” situation as an owner of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK). [ Read judgment ] The apex...
SC bench pushes NaMo to tell when he'll finally get around to cleaning Ganga
The Supreme Court Wednesday asked if the Narendra Modi government intended to complete the task of cleaning the Ganga river in its present term or carry it to the next term and keep the issue alive. The court sought details on the status of various sewage treatment plants (STP) that were being set u...
SC to make public Mudgal spot fixing report, names Srinivasan + 3 ors
The Supreme Court today disclosed the names of four key cricket personalities investigated by the Justice Mudgal Committee for allegations of spot fixing and betting in the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The apex court bench comprising justice TS Thakur and Justice FM Kalifullah sa...
Gopal Subramanium (again) offers recusal in temple case, SC (again) won't have it
The Supreme Court yesterday declined senior counsel Gopal Subramanium’s offer to step aside as amicus curiae in the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple case after members of Travancore royal family who are the temple’s trustees assailed him for interfering with temple rituals and trying to oust them. Declini...
Thakur, Sikri J prove hard-nosed in Sahara debut: Pay Rs 10,000 cr (not from gunny bags)
Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri told the Sahara Group after a two hour hearing that they would have to pay Rs 10,000 crore to get its boss Subrata Roy and two directors released from jail. The judges, who replaced the previous bench of justices KS Radharkrishnan and JS Khehar amid unpr...
New 'high-pressure' Sahara bench mandate won by justices Thakur, Sikri
Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri will be hearing the controversial Sahara case on 19 May after Justice KS Radhakrishnan retired and Justice JS Khehar recused himself and said he wanted nothing to do with any Sahara matters in future. Radhakrishnan had professed to have faced “unimaginab...