Court Cages

Negligence by metro officials caused the reinforcement cage of an under-construction metro pillar to fall on a two-wheeler on Tuesday. The woman and son died during treatment at a hospital nearby, while her husband and daughter were also injured.

The Central Bureau of Investigation should be an autonomous body reporting only to parliament, the Madras High Court said on Tuesday.

Former Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik is actively supervising a probe by the Central Vigilance Commission against CBI Director Alok Verma, sources said today.

A Japanese father who kept his mentally ill adult son in a cage for decades received a suspended jail term on Wednesday, a court spokeswoman said.

Suspended BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad today dragged the Modi government into his campaign against alleged corruption in DDCA and said he will move court against it besides Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, claiming that the CBI remains a "caged parrot".

Birds have the fundamental right to "live with dignity" and fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty, Delhi High Court has said while holding that running their trade was a "violation of their rights".

A European court on Thursday ordered Russia to pay damages for putting defendants in metal cages in court, a practice it condemned as "degrading treatment." The enclosures have held opposition figures, Greenpeace activists and untold numbers of less-prominent suspects across the country.

Porcupines in cages, endangered tortoises in buckets and snakes in cloth bags - rare wildlife is on open sale at a Chinese market, despite courts being ordered to jail those who eat endangered species.

The trial of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood heard on Wednesday defendant claims of torture and denial of medical treatment.

The CBI has opposed an accountability panel suggested in the Centre's proposal for autonomy to the investigating agency, which had been described as a "caged parrot" by the top court.

In its report filed in the Supreme Court today before the hearing scheduled on Wednesday, the agency has said that while they will abide by the apex court's direction and not share any details of their investigation, they may have to in special circumstances.

CBI chief Ranjit Sinha on Thursday accepted the Supreme Court's observation that the country's premier investigating agency was a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice".

The Supreme Court today rapped the Centre for interfering in the CBI's investigations in the coal scam and observed that the country's top investigation agency has become a "caged parrot that has many masters."

The Supreme Court is livid that the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI made a report on its coal investigation, meant for the judges, available to the government in March this year. It has rapped the Centre for interfering with the CBI's investigations and has observed that the agency is a "caged parrot that has many masters."

Negligence by metro officials caused the reinforcement cage of an under-construction metro pillar to fall on a two-wheeler on Tuesday. The woman and son died during treatment at a hospital nearby, while her husband and daughter were also injured.

The Central Bureau of Investigation should be an autonomous body reporting only to parliament, the Madras High Court said on Tuesday.

Former Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik is actively supervising a probe by the Central Vigilance Commission against CBI Director Alok Verma, sources said today.

A Japanese father who kept his mentally ill adult son in a cage for decades received a suspended jail term on Wednesday, a court spokeswoman said.

Suspended BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad today dragged the Modi government into his campaign against alleged corruption in DDCA and said he will move court against it besides Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, claiming that the CBI remains a "caged parrot".

Birds have the fundamental right to "live with dignity" and fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty, Delhi High Court has said while holding that running their trade was a "violation of their rights".

A European court on Thursday ordered Russia to pay damages for putting defendants in metal cages in court, a practice it condemned as "degrading treatment." The enclosures have held opposition figures, Greenpeace activists and untold numbers of less-prominent suspects across the country.

Porcupines in cages, endangered tortoises in buckets and snakes in cloth bags - rare wildlife is on open sale at a Chinese market, despite courts being ordered to jail those who eat endangered species.

The trial of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood heard on Wednesday defendant claims of torture and denial of medical treatment.

The CBI has opposed an accountability panel suggested in the Centre's proposal for autonomy to the investigating agency, which had been described as a "caged parrot" by the top court.

In its report filed in the Supreme Court today before the hearing scheduled on Wednesday, the agency has said that while they will abide by the apex court's direction and not share any details of their investigation, they may have to in special circumstances.

CBI chief Ranjit Sinha on Thursday accepted the Supreme Court's observation that the country's premier investigating agency was a "caged parrot" that "speaks in its master's voice".

The Supreme Court today rapped the Centre for interfering in the CBI's investigations in the coal scam and observed that the country's top investigation agency has become a "caged parrot that has many masters."

The Supreme Court is livid that the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI made a report on its coal investigation, meant for the judges, available to the government in March this year. It has rapped the Centre for interfering with the CBI's investigations and has observed that the agency is a "caged parrot that has many masters."