Top Law News Refuse to pay taxes if govt fails to curb graft: Bombay HC February 3, 2016 / February 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish over growing corruption in government machinery and corporations, the Bombay High Court said that it’s high time citizens come together to fight this menace and can refuse to pay taxes if this “hydra-headed monster” is not eliminated. The HC also asked the Director General of Police to probe and book those responsible for […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court curb graft featured Law Legal News Refuse to pay taxes if govt fails to curb graft: Bombay HC
Top Law News Remove rubble at once from your land: HC to DDA February 3, 2016 / February 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today directed DDA to ensure “immediate removal” of construction material dumped on the authority’s vacant lands in Dwarka, saying this was a major cause of air pollution in the national capital. A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva also directed Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to ensure that people do […] Read more » Court DDA Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Remove rubble at once from your land: HC to DDA
Top Law News Murud tragedy: Bombay HC pulls up govt for failing to secure beaches February 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today rapped Maharashtra government and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) for failing to implement a Government Resolution on measures to be taken to keep beaches secure. “It is shocking that 14 students, of which 10 were girls, died after drowning two days back at the Murud-Janjira beach. There is no […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Murud tragedy Murud tragedy: Bombay HC pulls up govt for failing to secure beaches
Criminal Law News Madras HC dismisses plea against inquiry into graft charge February 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Madras High Court here has ordered action against officials, who allegedly helped a panchayat chief facing charges of misappropriation of funds evade an inquiry by repeatedly issuing defective show-cause notices. Dismissing an appeal by Alangulam Panchayat President K Ravichandran challenging a single judge’s order, a bench comprising justices V. Ramasubramanian and N Kirubakaran directed Sivaganga […] Read more » Court featured graft charge Law Legal News Madras HC dismisses plea against inquiry into graft charge Madras High Court
Criminal Law News Court refuses bail to two accused in espionage case February 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has denied bail to two persons, including an army personnel, arrested for allegedly supplying sensitive documents to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. The court dismissed the bail applications of former army personnel Munawwar Ahmad Mir and Farid Ahmad, who was serving as constable in 17, Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry division of the […] Read more » Court Court refuses bail to two accused in espionage case Criminal news delhi news Espionage case featured ISI Legal News
Environment Law News NGT refuses to quash Renuka dam’s green nod February 2, 2016 / February 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The national capitals water woes may soon come to an end with the National Green Tribunal today giving its nod to the 40 MW Renuka Hydro-Power Project in Himachal Pradesh and refusing to quash the environmental clearance granted to it. The green panel also declined to stall the land acquisition proceedings for the dam by […] Read more » Court Environment news featured Law Legal News NGT NGT refuses to quash Renuka dam's green nod Renuka dam
Top Law News Have paid salaries to workers till Dec 2015: MCDs February 2, 2016 / February 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The municipal corporations today told Delhi High Courtthat they have paid salaries to their employees till December 2015, even as sanitation workers continued their strike claiming non-payment of wages. The corporations also told a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath that they did not have the money to pay salaries for […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Have paid salaries to workers till Dec 2015: MCDs Law Legal News MCD
Top Law News Murud tragedy: Bombay HC seeks steps to secure beaches February 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A day after 14 students drowned off the popular Murud-Janjira beach in Raigad district, the Bombay High Courttoday sought to know from Maharashtra government what measures it has taken to keep beaches secure so as to avoid such incidents. Advocate Jamshed Mistry today mentioned a public interest litigation filed by NGO Janhit Manch on the […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Murud tragedy Murud tragedy: Bombay HC seeks steps to secure beaches
Top Law News SC refers curative plea on homosexuality to five-judge bench February 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will hear curative petitions seeking re-examination of its verdict criminalising sexual activity between same sex consenting adults under section 377 of IPC. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices A R Dave and J S Khehar said that since important issues concerning the […] Read more » Court Delhi featured Law Legal News SC refers curative plea on homosexuality to five-judge bench Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Nigerian jailed for 10 yrs in drugs case February 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A 42-year-old Nigerian national has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for trying to export 2.8 kg heroin out of India by a Delhi court which took a lenient view towards him considering his clean antecedents. Special NDPS Judge Deepak Garg, while awarding the minimum sentence for the offence, also referred to an observation […] Read more » Court Criminal news drugs case featured Law Nigerian jailed for 10 yrs in drugs case
Top Law News Sitamarhi Court dismisses petition against Lord Rama, Laxmana February 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A district court here has dismissed a petition seeking registration of case against Lord Rama and his brother Laxmana over banishing goddess Sita to exile in a forest, saying the issue is “beyond logic and facts”. Sitamarhi Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Rash Bihari yesterday rejected as “not maintainable” the petition by advocate Chandan Kumar Singh, […] Read more » Court featured Law Laxmana Legal News Sitamarhi Sitamarhi Court dismisses petition against Lord Rama
Criminal Law News Arrested TMC leader remanded to police custody February 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Trinamool Congress leader Naren Chakraborty, arrested for trying to board a Chennai-bound flight with an unlicensed gun, was today remanded to a day’s police custody by a court in Barrackpore near here. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Barrackpore Mayukh Mukherjee remanded Chakraborty to police custody after he was produced in the court today amid tight […] Read more » Arrested TMC leader remanded to police custody Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Naren Chakraborty TMC TMC leader
