NCP leader Nawab Malik, who is currently in judicial custody, was arrested on February 23 under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the Enforcement Directorate.
Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the jailed lawmakers, submitted that not permitting the two from voting in MLC elections will effectively impact the rights of all voters who had elected the two lawmakers.
Azam Khan is presently lodged in Sitapur jail in connection with a number of cases, including that of land grabbing, lodged against him in Rampur.
Hearing pleas, a division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul, Rajnish Bhatnagar noted that a matter challenging constitutional validity of offence of Sedition under Section 124A of IPC is pending for hearing before SC on May 5.
Mevani was remanded to 5 days of police custody in connection with an assault case. After the hearing of plea, the court had reserved the order on Apr 28.
Mevani was apprehended from Palanpur town in Gujarat on Wednesday night after an FIR under various sections of the IPC and the IT Act was filed in Kokrajhar Police Station.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana and comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli queried the UP govt counsel, "It appears from the report of the monitoring judge that he recommended cancellation of bail. What's your stand?"
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat had reserved the order on Mar 3 after hearing arguments from the counsel appearing for Khalid and the prosecution.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana was told by lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the plea, which was to be listed Friday, has not been in the list of business, and meanwhile, there was an attack on one of the prime witnesses of the case on Thursday night.
A bench headed by CJI NV Ramana took note of the submissions of lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the other accused in the case are moving courts for grant of bail citing relief granted to Ashish Mishra.
Though granted bail in Dharma Sansad case on Feb 7, Narsinghanand was still in jail due to the other cases in which the same court granted him bail on Tuesday.
Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor on Wednesday was granted bail by Special PMLA Court, Mumbai in the alleged fraud case of over Rs 300 crores.
On Thursday, India announced a USD 900 million loan to Sri Lanka to build up its depleted foreign reserves and for food imports, amid a shortage of almost all essential commodities in the island nation. The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay met the Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal and “expressed India’s strong support to Sri Lanka in the wake of RBI extending over USD 900 million facilities over the last week”.
The investigation in the case revealed that firearms, petrol bombs, acid attacks, sticks, iron rods, stone-pelting through pre-fabricated large-sized slingshots were used to attack and kill police personnel, government employees, and public persons.
The bail application was filed by Bikram Majithia's counsel DS Sobti.
Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar issued notice to the prosecution and asked it to file a reply to the bail plea while listing the matter for further hearing on February 11, 2022.
Saayoni Ghosh was granted bail by the Chief Judicial Magistrate court in West Tripura.
District and Sessions Judge Mukesh Mishra rejected the bail application of Ashish Mishra, alias Monu; Ashish Pandey; and Lavkush Rana.
Prior to this, a CJI N V Ramana-led bench had expressed strong displeasure over reports of delay in implementation of bail orders and had said it would set up a “secure, credible and authentic channel” for transmission of orders.
A bench comprising justices Ajay Rastogi and AS Oka set aside the Kerala High Court order which had cancelled his bail.
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