The Uttarakhand High Court had yesterday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to start a probe against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on a bribe allegation made by two journalists. Today, the Chief Minister moved the Supreme Court, challenging the high court’s order.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court of India today stayed contempt proceedings pending in the Uttarakhand High Court against former chief ministers who are staying in government bungalows and have not started paying rent yet.
The Uttarakhand High Court has issued a Contempt of court notice to former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and present Governor of Maharashtra, Bhagat Singh Koshyari in the matter of not depositing his arrears of rent and other bills.
New Delhi (ILNS): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the Uttarakhand High Court’s order dismissing a plea challenging the takeover of the Char Dham and 51 other shrines by the Uttarakhand government by forming the Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Uttarakhand High Court has stayed the arrest of MLA Mahesh Negi. The MLA had filed a petition in court for cancellation of the FIR lodged against him in a sexual abuse and also asking for protection against arrest. The court has directed the MLA to cooperate in the investigation.
The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered that all documents of all primary and upper primary school teachers in the state have to be verified within three weeks. The court has been hearing a petition which had alleged that about 3,500 teachers in the state have got jobs with fake documents.
The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered the acquittal of a person convicted for sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a two and-a-half-year-old girl, because of absence of credible evidence.
Justice Ravindra Maithani heard the bail application filed by the journalist in FIR No. 265 of 2020, under Section 420, 467, 468, 469, 471, 120-B 124-A IPC, filed at Police Station Nehru Colony, District Dehradun.
The Uttarakhand High Court has recently held that a wife causing mental cruelty to husband is a valid ground for dissolution of marriage, as mental cruelty is no less than physical cruelty.