'After former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium’s withdrawal from candidature from judgeship, Supreme Court senior Advocate Uday U. Lalit will reportedly be elevated to the post. Lalit will soon meet Chief Justice of India, R.M. Lodha for the confirmation.
'...The first reason given by the government for opposing Subramanium's appointment is ridiculous. The government says that a conversation between Radia and some third person shows Subramanium in a poor light. On the contrary, the conversation between Radia and Ratan Tata where his name is mentioned shows him in a very favourable light, since Radia says "I am not sure that he (Subramanium) will agree to what they say. He is an upright person. I think Raja will be trying to get the AG (Vahanvati)".
'Senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium, who was Solicitor General for the previous UPA government, today bowed out of the race to become Supreme Court judge alleging a "dirt-digging exercise" by the new government. Mr Subramanium has reportedly told the Chief Justice of India in a letter that he had found out the Law Minister had initiated an inquiry "with a clear mandate to describe me as unsuitable."
"How has the BJP government come to trust the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) so much that it chooses to place the CBI opinion above the Supreme Court collegium's well considered decision to appoint the former solicitor general Gopal Subramanian as a justice in the highest court? The same BJP leadership had the choicest invectives for the CBI top brass till the other day. Yet, the new government has chosen to ask CBI for its view on Gopal Subramanian...
'Home Ministry and CBI are at loggerheads over granting sanction to four Intelligence Bureau officials in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case with the ministry demanding the case diary before the nod can be given and the probe agency deciding to seek legal opinion on the demand. Home Ministry sources said the ministry had sought certain documents from CBI saying no sanction will be accorded without proper application of mind for which material available on record is required.
"In the biggest ever conviction of police personnel in a fake encounter case, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in New Delhi found 17 Uttarakhand policemen guilty of killing a young man. The policemen had killed 22-year-old MBA graduate Ranbir in Dehradun five years back. There were a total of 18 policemen who were being tried in the case and 17 of them have been convicted. One policeman has been found guilty of destruction and fabrication of evidence. The other 17 convicted have been found guilty of murder, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy..."
"At TruthOfGujarat, we recently wrote about how GL Singhal, a quadruple murder accused and the snoopgate protagonist, has been reinstated in the ranks of Gujarat Police last week. Besides confessing how Narendra Modi and Amit Shah had given approvals for gunning down four people which we documented in our earlier article... GL Singhal in his confession before CBI had also spoken about how the duo had interfered with justice in the Sohrabuddin-Kausarbi murder case.
"As news of the demise of Mukul Sinha – trade unionist, lawyer, civil rights worker, and a widely loved communist – came in, no news channel cared to pause the hysteria over exit polls. Not even momentarily. The giddy coverage of voting in Benaras and possibility of the Modi wave reaching the parliamentary shores safely could not be suspended for even a five-minute solemn remembrance of this remarkable man.
"Suspended IPS officer and an accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, GL Singhal has been reinstated by the Gujarat Government. The order comes after a review by the state home department of his suspension in less than a week after Anandiben Patel took over as the chief minister from Narendra Modi..."
"After the 2002 pogrom, Sinha became known as a human rights lawyer and a Gujarat riot activist. Neither term sat well with him and he always saw himself, and his work, through the lens of a labour organiser... Sinha was also mistrustful of the term leader because his whole life was dedicated to finding new voices and empowering them. During the many times I visited Sinha, I met some of Gujarat’s most respected judges, journalists, and activists. But just as often, I also met bus drivers, railway workers, and labourers, each of whom Mukul was training.
