Plea on late-running trains dismissed

August 14th, 2009 AGARTALA - Fearing terrorist attacks ahead of Independence Day Aug 15, the Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) has suspended night trains in southern Assam, Nagaland and Tripura till Sunday, an official said here Friday. "Many trains, especially those running at night in southern Assam, Nagaland and Tripura will remain suspended from Friday to Sunday.

July 3rd, 2009 CHENNAI - Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee's budget proposals presented in the Lok Sabha Friday did not include private sector participation in running of passenger trains on tourist routes, as suggested by the Economic Survey 2008-09. "Private entry into provision of passenger trains must be allowed to and from all the tourist destinations," the survey tabled in parliament a day earlier had said.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea by former punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh seeking transfer of the trial of a corruption case against the state's present chief minister Parkash Singh Badal outside the state. Amarinder Singh's plea was dismissed by a bench of Chief Justice K.G.

April 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the metro increasingly becoming the choice of city's commuters, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has ordered extra coaches to be attached to some existing trains to increase the passenger capacity, an official said Sunday. Eight more coaches have been ordered by the DMRC to be added to four trains.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea that sought direction to the government to undertake a caste-based census in 2011. A bench of Chief Justice K.G.

April 2nd, 2009 PATNA - The Patna High Court Thursday rejected Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Ranjan Yadav alias Pappu Yadav's plea to suspend his conviction in a criminal case so that he could contest the coming Lok Sabha election. A division bench of the court rejected the petition of Yadav, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court for murdering Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator Ajit Sarkar in 1998.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Varun Gandhi after the lawyer for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate charged with making communal speeches withdrew the petition. The lawyer said he was withdrawing the petition since the Allahabad High Court had already dismissed Varun Gandhi's plea to quash the first information report (FIR) filed by the police in Pilbhit, the Uttar Pradesh constituency from which he is contesting in the April-May Lok Sabha poll.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday rejected a plea by Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal, who have been sentenced to life term in a murder case, that a Delhi court does not have the jurisdiction to hear the case as the incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh. In 2005, the Supreme Court had transferred the case from a Ghaziabad court to Delhi after which the duo had filed the petition.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea by former union minister P.K. Thungan for quashing of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case against him over alleged misuse of public funds.

February 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the reservation policy the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) adopted in allotting flats last year. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna dismissed the petition and said they will pass the detailed order later.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed a plea from jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammed Shahabuddin to be allowed to attend parliament. Shahabuddin, who is serving life imprisonment in a kidnapping case in Bihar's Siwan jail, had filed a petition requesting that he be allowed to attend the Feb 16-26 Lok Sabha session.

February 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - Anxious relatives of the passengers of the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express, which derailed in Orissa Friday evening, rushed to the Howrah station here to enquire about their fate but complained that officials were not forthcoming with details. 'Authorities here do not have any information.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railways Minister Lalu Prasad is set to present the country's interim rail budget for the next fiscal in parliament Friday, with an expectation that he would once again spare the average citizen from fare hikes and introduce some new trains. The minister had presented all the five previous rail budgets for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government since 2004, during which he set a record of sorts in terms of generating revenues despite lowering fares.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday rejected the bail plea of Utsav Bhasin, the teenaged son of a Haryana industrialist who is accused of mowing down a man with his BMW car in south Delhi. Justice Veena Birbal dismissed the bail plea of 19-year-old Bhasin, saying the rejection was based on initial evidence that he ran away from the spot and that his car was damaged.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Railways face a legal case for running trains late and putting passengers into trouble. Ramnath Garg, a Delhi resident, has filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court who has pointed out that trains running late by several hours put passengers in trouble as they go without food and water for protracted periods of time.