Новости за 16.08.2019

Senior advocate and former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Dushyant Dave has written a letter to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, alleging serious irregularities in listing of some cases before a vacation bench which passed orders in favour of a corporate house and sought his intervention for corrective measures.

A massive temple, dating back to 2nd century BC, existed at the disputed land in Ayodhya and Muslims could not lay claim to it just because they offered namaz at the site, counsel for deity Ram Lalla told the SC on Friday. Senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan​ said, "even a street could be used to offer namaz by Muslims but it did not mean that the street would become a mosque."

Efforts by China and Pakistan to internationalise revocation of the special status to J&K were thwarted at the closed-door consultations on Friday. UNSC members not only rejected Pak’s demand for a formal meeting but did not even adopt an informal statement. Indian envoy to UN Syed Akbaruddin asserted that the defanging of Article 370 was entirely an internal affair of India.

Amid allegations of “tax terrorism”, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has sought a mindset change in tax officials while advocating a technology-driven approach. Echoing PM Modi’s resolve that honest taxpayers should not be harassed, Sitharaman underscored curtailing the interface of taxpayers with authorities at a meeting with income tax and GST wings in Gujarat.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh’s suggestion that India’s no-first-use nuclear posture may not be sacrosanct sparked intense speculation in the midst of Indo-Pak tensions in the wake of the abrogation of special status to J&K. India has, so far, maintained a 'no first use' policy. Singh’s statements might be a signal that India will not succumb to nuclear blackmail from Pakistan.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed its first chargesheet in the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Ltd money laundering case and attached assets worth over Rs 570 crore, including bank accounts and immovable properties (residential and commercial premises) situated in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Brussels (Belgium) held by the members of committee of directors of IL&FS Financial Services Ltd (IFIN).

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Telecom connectivity would be gradually restored from Friday night and restrictions on public movement lifted in the Kashmir Valley in the next two days, J&K chief secretary said at a briefing. Schools will reopen on Monday. He said the easing of curbs on telecommunication and movement of people was in view of the “improvement” in the security situation in the Valley.

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Reiterating its stand on Article 370 after the UNSC closed-door meet on Kashmir, India said that its position was and remains that the matter is an internal issue. India's representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin told reporters that the recent decisions taken by the govt and legislative bodies on J&K as well as Ladakh are intended to benefit the people of the region.