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Islamabad, Mar 8(ANI): Pakistan Law Minister Babar Awan has reportedly nominated himself for an international assignment worth millions of dollars.
According to reports, the Law Ministry has put Awan’s name at the top of the four-member list of legal experts recommended to the International Arbitration Forum for future assignments at the International Arbitration Court (IAC),
It [...]

New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily has said he would look into a claim made by a High Court Judge that a Union Minister tried to persuade him to grant anticipatory bail to a doctor and his son in a forged mark sheets case.

“I would verify [...]

Chennai, June 27(ANI): Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi, on Saturday said that a bill for tightening immigration laws for Indians moving overseas would be finalised in the next two to three months.

“The bill, whose draft was ready, would contain penal provisions against unscrupulous agents,” said Vayalar Ravi.

The bill will provide more power [...]

New Delhi June 23(ANI): The Government of India is considering passing a law, which would provide for protection of witnesses.

Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said here today that witness protection mechanism should be made part of the criminal justice system.

As Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission during [...]

NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of the Supreme Court supporting a witness protection mechanism, law minister M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said it should be made part of the criminal justice system.
“In the report on public order, I had mentioned that this (witness protection) is a must and we should mandate this kind of [...]

New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI): An application was moved in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Central Bureau of Investigation’s decision to remove the name of the lone surviving suspect in the Bofors payoff case Ottavio Quattrocchi [...]

Gandhinagar, Apr 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani on Tuesday strongly questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation’s decision to remove the name of the lone surviving suspect in the Bofors payoff case Ottavio Quattrocchi from the Interpol’s list of most wanted persons.

“Overall the performance of CBI in the last five years, [...]

New Delhi, Apr 28 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has removed the name of the lone surviving suspect in the Bofors payoff case Ottavio Quattrocchi from its list of most wanted persons.

The 12-year Interpol Red Corner Notice against the Italian businessman, has been removed from the “Interpol Notices” section of CBI’s website.

The agency’s [...]

London, Apr.8 (ANI): Seven in ten burglars are avoiding prison in the United Kingdom and one in four are being let off with a slap on the wrist.
The alarming figures are a setback for ministers just a day after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced fresh support for victims of break-ins to secure their homes, reports [...]

The government’s move to hive off prosecution work from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and entrust it to an independent Directorate of Prosecution has been opposed by the two premier agencies. Both agencies have formally objected to the government’s move to bring the prosecution machinery under its direct control, [...]

Islamabad, Mar.20 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court’s Registrar Office has returned the review petition of the Sharif brothers’ disqualification case saying that it lacked the necessary documents.

According to sources, the review petition did not included the security bonds of the petitioners and the paper book on the cases.

The Attorney General of Pakistan, Sardar Muhammad [...]

Islamabad, Mar. 18 (ANI): In a bid to bring estranged party leaders back into the PPP mainstream and bridge the cracks within his party, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has started reconciliation efforts by inviting estranged leaders for talks.

On Wednesday, Zardari has invited leader of the house in Senate Raza Rabbani and former PPP Sindh [...]

Islamabad, Feb 6 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has asked India to display patience on the investigations being carried by it on the Mumbai attacks.

Rejecting India’s allegations that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was linked to the attacks, Basit said such statements were not helpful.

Basit said India should not jump the gun by making [...]

Islamabad, Feb 6 (ANI): The Law Ministry has submitted a summary of findings of a Pakistani probe into the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

A high-level Federal Investigation Agency team was tasked to probe the attacks in the light of a dossier of evidence that India shared with Pakistan.

Sources privy [...]