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Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI KG Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to "historically" have belonged to Scheduled Castes, but have converted their religion.

Lending weight to the centre's criticism of the Supreme Court's verdict on the SC/ST Act, former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan today said the judgement was "basically wrong" and observed that judicial orders should not create violence among the people.

The Supreme Court, as an institution, is "in problem", former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan said today, as the debate began afresh over the process of allocation of cases. The Supreme Court today upheld the Chief Justice of India's prerogative to set the roster and threw out a petition calling for a transparent process of rostering.

The Supreme Court today sought the assistance of the Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi, to hear a plea seeking a central probe into the alleged amassing of wealth by the kith and kin of Justice KG Balakrishnan, during his tenure as an apex court judge and Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

The Supreme Court today took exception to an advocate using initials "KGB" to refer to former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan in his petition seeking his removal as the NHRC Chairman.

The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Justice KG Balakrishnan has referred to the division bench of the Commission a petition seeking re-opening of all files related to alleged fake encounters in Kurnool and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh between 2000 and 2002, in which 19 persons were killed.

The Supreme Court is likely to deliver today its verdict on a plea seeking presidential reference into the allegations of misconduct against National Human Rights Commission Chief (NHRC) and former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan.

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is probing into the allegations that former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and his relatives had amassed disproportionate assets during his tenure as judge and submitted it a probe status report.

The Supreme court today is expected to take up the case of alleged disproportionate assets against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan. The Supreme Court had earlier asked the Centre to brief it on whether it had conducted any probe into these allegations.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to brief it on the action taken on the allegations against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The government has ordered an Income Tax inquiry against former Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan.The Home Ministry has commissioned the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to study complaints of disproportionate wealth accumulated by Mr Balakrishnan.The inquiry is based on a letter sent by activist Prashant Bhushan, who is also playing a ma...

Former Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, is under intense scrutiny with the Kerala police now probing the assets of his relatives.The Special Branch of the Kerala police has begun an inquiry into alleged disproportionate assets of Balakrishnan's relatives.  The intelligence report accessed by NDTV gives details of property acquired by B...

The pressure is mounting on former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan. After Income Tax authorities probing charges of illegal wealth against his three close relatives said they have found black money, Balakrishnan's peers say they are disappointed and that he must clear his name."Since all these close relations of Balakrishnan are those ...

Causing further embarrassment to KG Balakrishnan, the former Chief Justice of India (CJI), there are reports that the Income Tax department has established that three close relatives of his, have black money in their possession."As far as Justice Balakrishnan is concerned, I cannot say anything. But as far as his relatives, two sons-in-law and brot...

There is another blow for former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice K G Balakrishnan as the Kerala government has asked his brother K G Bhaskaran to resign as the state's advocate, or go on leave for allegedly amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.This comes a day after the Left Front government ordered a probe into the assets of Bal...

Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI KG Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to "historically" have belonged to Scheduled Castes, but have converted their religion.

Lending weight to the centre's criticism of the Supreme Court's verdict on the SC/ST Act, former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan today said the judgement was "basically wrong" and observed that judicial orders should not create violence among the people.

The Supreme Court, as an institution, is "in problem", former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan said today, as the debate began afresh over the process of allocation of cases. The Supreme Court today upheld the Chief Justice of India's prerogative to set the roster and threw out a petition calling for a transparent process of rostering.

The Supreme Court today sought the assistance of the Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi, to hear a plea seeking a central probe into the alleged amassing of wealth by the kith and kin of Justice KG Balakrishnan, during his tenure as an apex court judge and Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

The Supreme Court today took exception to an advocate using initials "KGB" to refer to former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan in his petition seeking his removal as the NHRC Chairman.

The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Justice KG Balakrishnan has referred to the division bench of the Commission a petition seeking re-opening of all files related to alleged fake encounters in Kurnool and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh between 2000 and 2002, in which 19 persons were killed.

The Supreme Court is likely to deliver today its verdict on a plea seeking presidential reference into the allegations of misconduct against National Human Rights Commission Chief (NHRC) and former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan.

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is probing into the allegations that former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and his relatives had amassed disproportionate assets during his tenure as judge and submitted it a probe status report.

The Supreme court today is expected to take up the case of alleged disproportionate assets against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan. The Supreme Court had earlier asked the Centre to brief it on whether it had conducted any probe into these allegations.

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to brief it on the action taken on the allegations against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The government has ordered an Income Tax inquiry against former Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan.The Home Ministry has commissioned the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to study complaints of disproportionate wealth accumulated by Mr Balakrishnan.The inquiry is based on a letter sent by activist Prashant Bhushan, who is also playing a ma...

Former Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, is under intense scrutiny with the Kerala police now probing the assets of his relatives.The Special Branch of the Kerala police has begun an inquiry into alleged disproportionate assets of Balakrishnan's relatives.  The intelligence report accessed by NDTV gives details of property acquired by B...

The pressure is mounting on former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan. After Income Tax authorities probing charges of illegal wealth against his three close relatives said they have found black money, Balakrishnan's peers say they are disappointed and that he must clear his name."Since all these close relations of Balakrishnan are those ...

Causing further embarrassment to KG Balakrishnan, the former Chief Justice of India (CJI), there are reports that the Income Tax department has established that three close relatives of his, have black money in their possession."As far as Justice Balakrishnan is concerned, I cannot say anything. But as far as his relatives, two sons-in-law and brot...

There is another blow for former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice K G Balakrishnan as the Kerala government has asked his brother K G Bhaskaran to resign as the state's advocate, or go on leave for allegedly amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.This comes a day after the Left Front government ordered a probe into the assets of Bal...