VTU today informed the the Karnataka HC that SPECIAL CHANCE EXAMS for students will be conducted between last week of October and first week of November, via offline mode.
VTU contended that it did not have the technical facilities to conduct online exams for students. It further said that it had constituted an expert committee for looking into the matter.
VTU conducted final year exams for students on Aug 19.
Karnataka HC proceeded to dispose off petition by students seeking online exams, opining that it does not intend to go beyond the 'opinion of the experts' in the matter.
MK Stalin case: Supreme Court hears plea by AIADMK leader SA Duraiswamy challenging TN CM Stalin’s 2011 assembly election win from Kolathur constituency.
The plea alleges that Stalin and his party representatives indulged in corrupt practices, particularly by providing money and gifts to secure votes.
Bench: Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi.
Sr. Adv. DS Naidu, appearing for Duraiswamy refers to a prosecution witness statement:
Naidu: the witness is the editor of a magazine called “kumudam snehidi”.
Court: what’s the meaning of that?
Another counsel: kumudum means lotus. Snehidi means friend.
Naidu: a friend of lotus. May be figurative meaning.
Sr. Adv. Kapil Sibal (for Stalin): most inappropriate definition.
Court bursts into laughter.
Naidu: kumudam was once India’s largest selling family magazine. It’s basically a women’s magazine. Like women’s era. It’s the women’s wing of kumudam publications. Perhaps, the lotus is being compared with women and Snehidi is the friend of the woman, or the fairer sex.
Justice Maheshwari: (in jest): we can’t say anything…
Plea concerning seizure of electronic devices during criminal investigations
Sr Adv A Sundaram: some sort of information is being looked at. No predicate offence against me and my phone is being looked to find a link with predicate offence. There needs to be some guidelines to stop such fishing and roving inquiry. Where is my privacy I ask ? If my phone contain something.. then how it affects them.. there is nothing.
CJI: tell us why your mobile has been taken away ? There are people siphoning off thousands of crores and phones cannot be looked into? If they rely on something which is not related to this then we can intervene. We can look at it from case to case also. But not like this. Let them see first.
Sundaram: Then my plea becomes infructuous!
CJI: why did they come to you.
Sundaram: please see the summons, nothing against me.
Justice Bagchi: This is a fallacious argument by you Mr Sundaram. ECIR is in respect of an offence and not an individual. There is no notice needed for seizing a device.
CJI: you are behaving as if you have nothing to do. ED just raided your place early morning as if you called them for tea.
Supreme Court to resume hearing its suo motu case on stray dogs at 2pm today.
Bench: Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria
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On the last hearing, the Court had lamented that many lawyers argued on behalf of dog lovers in the case but nobody was arguing or putting forth the views on behalf of human beings.
Supreme Court to hear plea by Enforcement Directorate accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and State officials of interfering with the central agency's investigation and search operations at the Kolkata offices of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its co-founder, Pratik Jain #SupremeCourt
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Enforcement Directorate has also filed an application seeking suspension of West Bengal Police top brass, including DGP Rajiv Kumar, alleging they aided Mamata Banerjee in obstructing ED raids and removal of evidence; plea seeks directions to Ministry of Home Affairs and Department of Personnel and Training, and recalls Kumar’s past dharna with the CM as Kolkata Police Commissioner @MamataOfficial #IPAC @dir_ed
Justices Prashant Mishra and Vipul Pancholi assemble
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Delhi High Court is hearing the petition filed by former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav against a trial court order framing criminal charges against him and his family members in the alleged IRCTC scam case.
The matter is listed before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal arguing for Prasad - They [CBI] refer to 2 communications that have no relation to any corrupt practice.
Calcutta High Court to shortly hear petitions concerning the Enforcement Directorate’s recent raids on political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain.
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All India Trinamool Congress and the Enforcement Directorate have filed separate petitions. Justice Suvra Ghosh will hear the matter at 2:30 PM.