The Supreme Court (SC) has issued contempt notice to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in NRO implementation case and directs him to appear personally before the bench on January 19, Geo News reported.
Under these circumstances, we are left with no option, as a first step, to issue a show cause notice," the notice issued by the seven-member bench stated.
"The prime minister should appear personally in court on Jan. 19.The Supreme Court (SC) has issued contempt notice to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in NRO implementation case and directs him to appear personally before the bench on January 19, The notice has been issued to the PM under Section 17.
A seven-member larger bench of the SC resumed hearing of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) Implementation case.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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