The Congress party on Saturday asked Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to have the guts to order a judicial probe into allegations that a huge amount of money being transported from Kozhikode in north Kerala to Ernakulam allegedly for .
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday signed the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Zimbabwe into law amid strong objections from the opposition and civil society organisations with lawyers and the MDC Alliance threatening “a floodgate of litigation”.
Political analysts say Mnangagwa rushed into signing the Bill to accommodate Chief Justice Luke Malaba whose term was expected to expire on May 15 when he reaches 70.
This would have made it unfit for him to hold the office according to the 2013 Constitution.
The gazetted Amendment Act also removes the selection of vice-presidents as presidential running mates, the number of non-elected MPs in Cabinet, retention of the specially elected extra women members of the National Assembly for another 10 years, the addition of 10 youth MPs, terms of office of judges, and the appointment of the Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet.
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The commission being constituted under an ordinance to legalise illegal housing schemes, including those falling in green areas, can be challenged in courts, says a lawyer. File
LAHORE: The commission being constituted under an ordinance to legalise illegal housing schemes, including those falling in green areas, can be challenged in courts, says a lawyer.
Lawyer Zafar Iqbal Kalanauri calls the ordinance unlawful, unconstitutional, and unethical that was prepared and issued a certain class of society. “Though, it is written in the ordinance that no court shall take cognizance of any matter covered under its provisions, the ordinance, the composition of the commission and the decision taken by it to regularize illegal housing schemes can be challenged in the high court under article 199 of the constitution,” he explained. “However, its decision cannot be heard by the lower courts (civil and session courts) under this ordinance,” he clarified.