{"id":247188,"date":"2019-02-15T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=247188"},"modified":"2019-02-15T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:17:13","slug":"sc-sends-power-tussle-case-to-larger-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-sends-power-tussle-case-to-larger-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"SC sends power tussle case to larger Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court upheld as \u201clegal\u201d the Ministry of Home Affairs\u2019 notifications of May 21, 2015, and July 23, 2015, authorising the LG to exercise powers in relation to services and directing the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) police not to take cognisance of offences against Central government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The court said the notifications were limited to the officials of the Central Government under the Prevention of Corruption Act and were \u201cperfectly in order\u201d. Thus, the apex court confirmed the Delhi High Court\u2019s finding that the ACB\u2019s jurisdiction is confined to Delhi officials and statutory bodies and does not extend to Central government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court upheld as \u201clegal\u201d the Ministry of Home Affairs\u2019 notifications of May 21, 2015, and July 23, 2015, authorising the LG to exercise powers in relation to services and directing the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) police not to take cognisance of offences against Central government officials. The court said the notifications were limited to the officials of the Central Government under the Prevention of Corruption Act and were \u201cperfectly in order\u201d. Thus, the apex court confirmed the Delhi High Court\u2019s finding that the ACB\u2019s jurisdiction is confined to Delhi officials and statutory bodies and does not extend to Central government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}