Amar Singh Supreme Court

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  Can Unattached Lawmakers Be Disqualified From House? Court Yet To Clarify

  The grey area on whether an unattached member of the House can be disqualified remains open as the Supreme Court declined to resolve the issue on Wednesday.

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  Supreme Court Begins Hearing To Re-Look Anti-Defection Law

  The Supreme Court on Friday commenced hearing to revisit its two-decade-old verdict on the anti- defection law by which a member elected or nominated by a political party continues to be under its control even after expulsion.

• Maharashtra Governor forwards Sanjay Dutt's pardon plea to state home department

  A pardon plea for actor Sanjay Dutt by Member of Parliament Jaya Prada and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was forwarded by the Maharashtra Governor to the state home department seeking its opinion on March 28, a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said today. On Tuesday, Ms Prada and Mr Singh had met Governor K Sankaranarayanan requesting him to pard...

• Sanjay Dutt says he wont appeal for pardon: who said what

  Actor Sanjay Dutt spoke to the media today saying he will not appeal for a pardon against the Supreme Court sentence. Last week he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the possession of illegal arms. Here are some reactions:

• 1993 Bombay blasts: Jaya Prada, Amar Singh meet Maharashtra Governor, request pardon for Sanjay Dutt

  Member of Parliament Jaya Prada and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh today met Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan in Mumbai and requested him to pardon actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been sentenced to five years in prison by the Supreme Court in a case linked to the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai.

• Cash-for-votes scam: 'Mastermind' Amar Singh not arrested; Ahmed Patel questioned

  The Delhi Police chargesheet in the cash-for-votes case furnishes phone call records to say there is sufficient evidence that former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and his aides hatched the conspiracy. It claims that a jeep owned by Mr Singh's family, a Maruti Gypsy, was used to deliver Rs one crore in cash to bribe three BJP MPs. The Supreme Co...

• Complete cash-for-votes inquiry in 3 weeks: Supreme Court

  The Delhi Police has been ordered to complete its inquiry into the cash-for-votes scandal in three weeks. The scandal revolves around three BJP MPs who claimed they had been offered a crore to vote in favour of the UPA government during a trust vote in 2008.  The court pulled up the Delhi Police. "Drop your inhibitions and follow the law. When...

• Cash-for-votes scam: Samajwadi Party's Rewati Raman Singh questioned

  Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh appeared before Delhi Police today for questioning in connection with the 2008 cash-for-vote scam, the fourth person to be quizzed in the past 10 days after the Supreme Court came down heavily on investigators for carrying out a shoddy probe.

• Amar Singh tapes: Supreme Court lifts gag order

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted its gag order on the media restraining it from broadcasting and publishing contents of the taped conversations of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with top politicians and Bollywood stars.A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly dismissed Singh's petition and vacated its interim order passed on F...

• Supreme Court slams Centre over Amar Singh phone-tapping case

  The Supreme Court today slammed the Government for not cancelling the licence of Reliance Infocomm for illegally tapping the telephone of politician Amar Singh on the basis of forged orders.        "Why didn't you cancel the licence of the service provider? It's gross negligence. Either service provider was doing ...

• No government wants a strong judiciary: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court today said that no government wants a strong judiciary. These observations came during the hearing of the Amar Singh phone-tapping case. Discussing the delays in disposing cases in the lower courts, the bench observed, "No government wants strong judiciary. Look at the allotment made to judiciary in the budget which is less than o...

• Supreme Court pulls up Amar Singh over phone-tapping case

  The Supreme Court today severely reprimanded former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh for wasting the court's time in the telephone-tapping case.The court's observation came after Singh withdrew accusations against the Congress over intercepting his phone calls."Look at the way the court is treated. Is it appropriate for this court to spend hours t...

• Supreme court seeks opinion on Amar's plea

  The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Attorney General's opinion on Amar Singh and Jaya Prada's plea that they should not be disqualified as Members of Parliament after their expulsion from the Samajwadi Party. A bench headed by Justice Altmas Kabir asked Attorney General GE Vahanvati for his opinion and posted the matter for further hearing o...