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Chandigarh mayoral polls: Supreme Court slams returning officer, calls for ballot papers

New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that the ballot papers and video that have been taken into custody by the Registrar General of Punjab and Haryana High Court according to its order, be produced before the apex court on February 20 at 2 pm. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra directed that the necessary security arrangements shall be made to ensure the safe transit and proper preservation and custody of ballet papers along with judicial officers. The bench expressed concern over the “horse trading”

Allegations by Nitish Bharadwaj false; left daughters traumatised, says his IAS officer wife

Bhopal, Feb 19 (PTI) Actor Nitish Bharadwaj’s estranged IAS officer wife on Monday said the allegations made by him that she had “abducted” their daughters are “false and malicious”. Smita Bharadwaj, currently posted in Bhopal as Additional Chief Secretary, and the Lord Krishna-fame actor, are locked in a marital dispute. The case is pending in a family court. The actor, known for his role in the TV serial ‘Mahabharat’, had submitted a complaint to the Bhopal police commissioner on Wednesday alleging that his estranged wife had “abducted” his two daughters and not let him meet them. Smita Bharadwaj on Monday

ED may issue 7th summons to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in excise policy

New Delhi, Feb 19 (PTI) The ED is expected to issue fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said on Monday. The ED sources claimed that a local court has prima facie held Kejriwal guilty of “disobeying” the earlier notices issued to him in this case, warranting the seventh summons. Kejriwal, 55, refused to depose before the federal agency for the sixth time on Monday with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) saying the ED should wait for the court’s decision instead of repeatedly sending summonses to the CM,

Arrest of Chanda Kochhar, her husband in loan fraud case amounted to abuse of power by CBI: Bombay High Court

Mumbai, Feb 19 (PTI) The arrest of ICICI Bank’s former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a loan fraud case was “without application of mind and due regard to the law”, amounting to an “abuse of power”, the Bombay High Court has said. A division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai and N R Borkar had on February 6 held the Kochhars’ arrest as illegal and confirmed a January 2023 interim order passed by another bench granting them bail. In the order made available on

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