Wajahat Habibullah

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea filed by Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others seeking registration of First Information Reports in connection with the spurt in violence in Delhi over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an application filed by former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others seeking lodging of FIRs with regard to the recent violence in Delhi over the amended citizenship law.

Court-appointed interlocutors today filed their report in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court on the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh here against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Late Union minister Sushma Swaraj's husband and former Governor Swaraj Kaushal has lambasted CAA interlocutor Wajahat Habibullah, calling him the "wajah" or reason for the anti-CAA blockade at Shaheen Bagh.

Former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has told the Supreme Court the protest at Shaheen Bagh here against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was peaceful and inconvenience being caused to commuters was due to barricades "unnecessarily" put by police on roads far away from the site.

Wajahat Habibullah, the Supreme Court-appointed interlocutor for the Shaheen Bagh protests, has told the court that the women protesters have chosen the spot for safety, since they have been getting regular threats. He also said there were five alternate roads in the area which were blocked by police or residents and the allegation that the protest...

Two senior lawyers have been chosen by the Supreme Court to talk to protesters who are on a sit-in for over two months in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA.

The government's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 is a "regressive and unwise" step as it will reduce the power of the common man who will be part of a Union Territory now, retired IAS officer Wajahat Habibullah said on Monday.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Julio Ribeiro, former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and 41 other retired bureaucrats have demanded that Union minister Jayant Sinha be sacked for felicitating eight convicts in a lynching case.

Retired bureaucrats and ex-servicemen yesterday deliberated on ways to safeguard the defence forces and civil services from "succumbing" to political rulers of the country.

As part of an overhaul of school text books, the Rajasthan education department has decided to scrap the chapter on Right to Information or RTI, a move that has several RTI campaigners seeing red.

The records related to Subhas Chandra Bose's mysterious disappearance are not being disclosed as they might have been lost, eaten up or disintegrated, first Chief Information Commissioner of the country Wajahat Habibullah today said.

Trouble seems to be mounting for the Ashok Gehlot-led government in Rajasthan. Two weeks after nine people were killed in alleged police firing in Bharatpur during violent clashes between two communities, the National Minorities Commission (NCM) has found the administration responsible for the incident.

An article by Subramanian Swamy, wherein he talks about revoking the voting rights of Muslims, has snowballed into a huge controversy, with the National Commission for Minorities mulling action against him.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) today hit out at the government for moving to exempt the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the Right to Information (RTI) Act, saying the move is "without sanction of the law".Taking strong exception to the move, the CIC, the body that administers the RTI, ruled that the Cabinet's notification exclu...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea filed by Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others seeking registration of First Information Reports in connection with the spurt in violence in Delhi over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an application filed by former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others seeking lodging of FIRs with regard to the recent violence in Delhi over the amended citizenship law.

Court-appointed interlocutors today filed their report in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court on the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh here against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Late Union minister Sushma Swaraj's husband and former Governor Swaraj Kaushal has lambasted CAA interlocutor Wajahat Habibullah, calling him the "wajah" or reason for the anti-CAA blockade at Shaheen Bagh.

Former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has told the Supreme Court the protest at Shaheen Bagh here against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was peaceful and inconvenience being caused to commuters was due to barricades "unnecessarily" put by police on roads far away from the site.

Wajahat Habibullah, the Supreme Court-appointed interlocutor for the Shaheen Bagh protests, has told the court that the women protesters have chosen the spot for safety, since they have been getting regular threats. He also said there were five alternate roads in the area which were blocked by police or residents and the allegation that the protest...

Two senior lawyers have been chosen by the Supreme Court to talk to protesters who are on a sit-in for over two months in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA.

The government's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 is a "regressive and unwise" step as it will reduce the power of the common man who will be part of a Union Territory now, retired IAS officer Wajahat Habibullah said on Monday.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Julio Ribeiro, former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and 41 other retired bureaucrats have demanded that Union minister Jayant Sinha be sacked for felicitating eight convicts in a lynching case.

Retired bureaucrats and ex-servicemen yesterday deliberated on ways to safeguard the defence forces and civil services from "succumbing" to political rulers of the country.

As part of an overhaul of school text books, the Rajasthan education department has decided to scrap the chapter on Right to Information or RTI, a move that has several RTI campaigners seeing red.

The records related to Subhas Chandra Bose's mysterious disappearance are not being disclosed as they might have been lost, eaten up or disintegrated, first Chief Information Commissioner of the country Wajahat Habibullah today said.

Trouble seems to be mounting for the Ashok Gehlot-led government in Rajasthan. Two weeks after nine people were killed in alleged police firing in Bharatpur during violent clashes between two communities, the National Minorities Commission (NCM) has found the administration responsible for the incident.

An article by Subramanian Swamy, wherein he talks about revoking the voting rights of Muslims, has snowballed into a huge controversy, with the National Commission for Minorities mulling action against him.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) today hit out at the government for moving to exempt the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the Right to Information (RTI) Act, saying the move is "without sanction of the law".Taking strong exception to the move, the CIC, the body that administers the RTI, ruled that the Cabinet's notification exclu...