Today(on 3rd May), the Supreme Court declined to halt the CBI’s probe into alleged illegal mining involving Hemant Soren’s associates. Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Dutta directed the CBI to continue the investigation but refrain from submitting any chargesheet temporarily. The matter will be further heard in July. The state had questioned the legality of the CBI’s FIR.
Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others were acquitted Today by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court today in an alleged Maoist links case, overturning their 2017 conviction. The court emphasized the lack of concrete evidence and legal flaws, underscoring the significance of judicial scrutiny in politically charged cases.
