Legal India Thousands march against corruption in Delhi January 30, 2011 / March 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment Holding aloft banners and shouting slogans against rising levels of corruption in the country, thousands of people from all age groups stepped out of their homes Sunday to demand an effective anti-graft law. Streaming banners that read ‘Corruption: Enough is enough’ and ‘Common people are raped in government offices’, the protestors gathered at the Ramlila […] Read more » corruption march against corruption Thousands march against corruption in Delhi
Legal India Fodder scam: 35 sentenced to prison January 29, 2011 / March 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment Thirty-five convicts in a case related to the multi-crore-rupee fodder scam were Saturday sentenced to imprisonment ranging from six-four years and slapped fines of up to Rs.2 crore by a special CBI court in Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge of R.R. Tripathy Friday pronounced judgment in the case revolving around […] Read more » fodder scam
Legal India Moily for CBI probe into Karnataka church attacks January 29, 2011 / March 28, 2016 | 1 Comment on Moily for CBI probe into Karnataka church attacks Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Saturday said the judicial panel, which absolved the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu groups of attacks on churches in Karnataka, had suppressed the truth. ‘Only a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will bring out the truth,’ he told reporters here a day after the justice […] Read more » Karnataka church attacks M. Veerappa Moily Moily Moily for CBI probe Union Law Minister
Legal India Ishrat Jahan case: Illustrative evidence of staged shootout, court told January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment There was illustrative evidence to ‘suspect beyond reasonable doubt’ that the killing of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three of her companions in 2004 was done in a staged shootout, a member of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT member told the court Friday. ‘There are scientific and circumstantial evidence against the version provided in […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
Legal India Supreme Court dismisses plea to stop Haj subsidy January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition by former Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Hindu ideologue Praful Goradia seeking the abolition of the subsidy given to Haj pilgrims. “There is no force in this petition and it is dismissed,” the court said. The court also said that a “very small expenditure in proportion to the […] Read more » Haj subsidy
Legal India ‘This is not America’, court tells married man in live-in relationship January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment “This is not America”, is what the Delhi High Court Friday told a 22-year-old woman in a live-in relationship with her brother-in-law, who had deserted her sister and two children and sought the court protection on the ground that they faced a threat to their lives from her family members. Justice Hema Kohli pulled up […] Read more » live-in relationship
Legal India 62 convicted in fodder scam, 23 jailed January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment A special CBI court here Friday convicted 62 people, including 27 government officials, in the 1996 multi-million fodder scam and 23 of them were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ranging from three to five years. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge R.R. Tripathy pronounced the judgment in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs.8.37 […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation fodder scam
Legal India Court raps Delhi government, power regulator January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday pulled up the Delhi government and the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) over appointment of members of the power regulator, saying it is “not happy with the state of affairs”.The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan sharply criticised the government and said “we have seen files […] Read more » Delhi government power regulator
Legal India Right to education to cover secondary schools soon: Sibal January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday hoped the Right to Education (RTE) act will cover secondary schools in the coming years. ‘In the coming five years similar rights will cover secondary education,’ Sibal said while addressing a function organised by the ministry and UNICEF. He said the act will address the problem of […] Read more » Human Resource Development kapil sibal Right to Education
Legal India More arbitration centres for commercial disputes planned January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment on More arbitration centres for commercial disputes planned Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Monday said that the central government was looking at setting up arbitration centres for commercial disputes in every metropolitan city in the country. Speaking during a ceremony in Panaji, marked to unveil India’s first international arbitration outside the national capital, Moily also made a pitch for a paradigm shift […] Read more » arbitration centres commercial disputes
