Four-Year Delay: Mosque Committee Seeks Supreme Court Action Against Centre’s Inaction

Four-Year Delay: Mosque Committee Seeks Supreme Court Action Against Centre’s Inaction

Places of Worship Act case: Mosque panel urges SC to close Centre’s right to counter after 4-yr delay New Delhi: The Shahi Masjid Committee of Mathura has moved the Supreme Court criticising the Union government for not filing its response to petitions challenging the Places of Worship Act despite four opportunities given by the court to do so in the last four years. In an application filed before the top court where a batch of petitions questioning the 1991 Act’s legal validity are pending for a decision, the committee alleged…

Read More

Delhi LG approves Prosecution of Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri Professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain

Delhi LG approves Prosecution of Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri Professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain

The case is related to provocative speeches allegedly made by the duo in 2010 Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has accorded sanction for the prosecution of author Arundhati Roy and a former Kashmiri professor in a 2010 case related to provocative speeches allegedly made at a conference here, Raj Niwas officials said on Tuesday. The FIR against Roy and former professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain was registered following the orders of the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi, they said. “LG V K Saxena noted that prima facie a case…

Read More