After completion of examination and cross examination of all the prosecution witnesses in the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi are the prime accused, a local court today fixed July 18 as the day when all the 24 accused in the case would be questioned.
In what comes as a setback for the government in the 2G scam case, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to appoint senior advocate Uday Lalit as the special public prosecutor for the trial.
The Supreme Court will tomorrow pass an order on the appointment of a special public prosecutor for holding the trial of former telecom minister A Raja and others in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
Government may come up with the name of the special public prosecutor to represent the CBI in the 2G spectrum allocation scam tomorrow, a top agency official said today.