The Whistle Blowers Protection Act and the Idea of Transparency
by Raj Krishna* and Alok Kumar**
official secrets act
Making audio recording of conversation inside police station not an offence under S.3 of Official Secrets Act, 1923: Bombay HC
The contents of FIR do speak about insult or intimidation and thus, it is left open to the Court concerned to see whether charge needs to be framed under Section 120-B1 or Section 342 of the Penal Code, 1860.
Punjab and Haryana HC grants bail to Indian Army Sepoy accused of leaking secret information to Pakistan
The Court noted that apart from one WhatsApp message, which was not incriminating, nothing else was found from the raid at the petitioner house. Still the petitioner has been behind bars for a substantial period of more than 2½ years.
Landmark Judgments on Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Supreme Court and High Courts in 2022 Part I
by Siddharth R. Gupta†
Cite as: 2023 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 44
Court admits accused to bail for CBI’s failure to file charge sheet within 60 days; Discusses consequence of incomplete charge sheet vis-a-vis right under S. 167(2) CrPC
District Court Complex, Rouse Avenue: Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj, Spl. Judge (PC Act) CBI-21 allowed applications filed under Section 167(2) CrPC and granted
CIC | Can CPIO rely on other Rules, Acts, Order or Circulars in matters of RTI Act? Commission explicates
Central Information Commission (CIC): Amita Pandove (Information Commissioner), came down heavily on CPIO, All India Radio for abdicating his duties. Appellant filed an
Del HC | Prosecution against officials of Reliance Industries under Official Secrets Act quashed in light of ‘secret’ documents already being in public domain
Delhi High Court: Sunil Gaur, J. allowed a batch of petitions filed against the trial court’s order whereby the petitioners including Group President
Rafale Deal: Centre to file response to review petition by May 4
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and SK Kaul and KM Joseph, JJ has directed the Centre to file
Rafale deal: Centre’s preliminary objections regarding admissibility of the leaked documents dismissed [Full Report]
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph, JJ has dismissed Centre’s preliminary objections
Rafale Deal: SC reserves order on admissibility of the ‘leaked’ documents
Supreme Court: Making it clear that it will decide first on the preliminary objections raised by the Centre and then go into the facts
Rafale Deal: SC allows Defence Ministry to file affidavit
Supreme Court: The Court has allowed the Defence Ministry to file an affidavit in the Rafale Deal case that will come up
Documents related to Rafale deal stolen from Defence Ministry; Govt. tells SC
Supreme Court: The government has told the Supreme Court that documents related to the Rafale fighter jet deal have been stolen from