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The Sahara group made fresh proposal before the SC for refunding Rs20, 000 crore to investors to make sure the release of its chief Subrata Roy who has been in jail with company’s 2 directors since 4 March. In the proposal, the Sahara group gives the surety to deposit Rs2,500 crore within three working days [...] Continue Reading »
The GMR has moved the AP High Court challenging the decision of the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) in discontinuing collection of user Development Fee for the next two years. The GHIAL has concluded that the AERA has no jurisdiction to fix the UDF and it was the Central government of India who has power [...] Continue Reading »
The NHAI felled a huge neem tree for road widening near the sports complex on Mankapur Road despite public interest litigation (PIL) pending in the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be behaving as if it is above the law. The division bench of Justice BR [...] Continue Reading »
Before Lok Sabha elections, the Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh gets relief from CBI, as the agency gave clean chit to him in a 2008 case of land allotment in Indore for a mall. The CBI, in the report, says that there were evidences found against Digvijaya. He was accused of changing the laws to [...] Continue Reading »
The Uttarakhand high court, on the illegal construction of the 13th floor of the palatial Swami Kailashanand Mission Trust building near Lakshaman Jhula in Rishikesh, has sought the state government’s response. The chief secretary has been directed by a single bench of Justice Alok Singh to personally scrutinize the matter and file an affidavit along [...] Continue Reading »
The HC clears the path for the relocation of the Kathputli Colony by rejecting the petition against the resettlement plan. Justice Hima Kohli questioned the petitioners who are claiming to be the residents of the Kathputli Colony to go to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for the injustice and told the land-owning agency to take [...] Continue Reading »
A complaint was filed in the Bombay high court by a Thane resident claiming that two civic bodies had authorized cluster redevelopment in their areas without doing any impact evaluation study of the scheme. On March 19 hearing will be done on the PIL filed by Dattatray Daund. Daund alleged that impact assessment study should [...] Continue Reading »
On Tuesday an activist filed an application in the special CBI court investigating on the Adarsh housing scam case seeking the registration of an FIR against a former chief minister who was also a revenue minister. On Thursday hearing will be done on the matter. Praveen Wategaonkar, an activist filed a PIL of case in [...] Continue Reading »
The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has ordered to scrap the user development fee at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here. GMR Hyderabad International Airport is considering challenging the order as this will have a negative impact on the company’s financials, said Siddharth Kapur, CFO, GMR Infrastructure’s airport business. Kapur said on the sidelines of India [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay high court, on Tuesday asked BMC to clarify its view on the redevelopment of common buildings coming under a proposed heritage precinct. Hearing a petition by Chembur Citizens’ Forum, representing approximately 500 buildings opposing their heritage status, was a bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M S Sanklecha. As per the petition, [...] Continue Reading »
