The Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the divestment in Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL). HZL has ceased to be a government company as the government, an ordinary shareholder, has a 29.5 percentage residuary stake, SC added. The court added that the government was entitled to make a decision on divestment shareholding, as long as the process is transparent and realizes the
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Preliminary Enquiry By CBI Not Must In Corruption Cases: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held on Friday that Preliminary Enquiry (PE) is not mandatory before FIR registration by the CBI under the Code of Criminal Procedure or Prevention of Corruption Act or the investigative agency’s manual and the accused cannot insist on it as a right. The court said that in case the information received by the CBI, through a complaint