Legal India Government will be forced to release my son, says Binayak’s mother January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment Welcoming the active and vocal support of rights bodies for Binayak Sen’s immediate release, his mother Friday exuded confidence that the collective demand of well-wishers will force the government to release him.”Several rights bodies across the country are demonstrating and demanding my son’s immediate and unconditional release. I do believe that all their efforts will […] Read more » Binayak's mother
Legal India Rajesh Talwar not to be given CBI documents, rules court (Lead) January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Friday ruled that no documents pertaining to teenager Aarushi Talwar’s murder be given to her father Rajesh Talwar after the CBI said he was a “suspected accused”. The case will now be heard Jan 25.Accepting the CBI lawyer’s plea, the court said the closure report has […] Read more » CBI documents Rajesh Talwar
Legal India Criminal complainant against Kamat over Goa land policy January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment Over 50 civic rights roups and a section of the clergy in Goa Friday filed a criminal complaint against Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and eight other members of a high-level committee for illegally creating eco tourism zones in concert with land sharks. Members of the Pilerne Citizens Forum (PCF), Ganv Ghor Rakhon Manch (GGRM), Goenche […] Read more » Digambar Kamat
Legal India Rajesh Talwar ‘suspected accused’: CBI January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday told a court here that it was against handing over documents of teenager Aarushi Talwar’s murder case to her father Rajesh Talwar as he was a “suspected accused” in the case. In its arguments before a special CBI court here, the investigation agency submitted that Talwar was not […] Read more » CBI Rajesh Talwar
Legal India Apex court upholds life for Graham Staines’ killers January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment Exactly 12 years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burnt to death by a mob of Hindu fanatics in Orissa, the Supreme Court Friday upheld life terms for Dara Singh, alias Ravinder Kumar Pal, who was leading the crowd and his accomplice Mahender Hambram.While confirming the life sentences, the apex court […] Read more » Dara Singh Graham Staines' killers
Legal India Court stops work on Tata housing project in Punjab January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court here Thursday stopped the construction of a controversial multi-storey housing project being executed by Tata Housing Development Company (THDC) in an ecologically fragile zone in Punjab, north of Chandigarh. The court ruling is likely to come as a blow to THDC and a number of politicians and other influential […] Read more » Tata housing project
Legal India Supreme Court pulls up Teesta Setalvad January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, is investigating the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riots. The […] Read more » Supreme Court Teesta Setalvad
Legal India Former RAW official tries to undress in court January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment A former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official, to be frustrated at the frequent adjournments in a human trafficking case against her in the Delhi High Court, tried to undress before a judge Thursday but was stopped by police officials. Nisha Bhatia, in her late thirties, started to undress in a courtroom before Justice Ajit […] Read more » (RAW) Research and Analysis Wing
Legal India Cabinet discusses black money issue after apex court rap January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of black money during a cabinet meeting here Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court queried why the government cannot name those involved in this $1.5-trillion “national plunder”. The discussion came against the backdrop of the apex court coming down heavily on the government’s reluctance to provide full […] Read more » apex court black money Manmohan Singh Nitin Gadkari
Legal India Is Makara Jyothi light man-made or not: Court to Kerala government January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Kerala High Court Thursday came down heavily on the state government and the Devaswom Board on the Sabarimala stampede tragedy, and directed that the ‘truth’ should come out on the Makara Jyothi that is believed to be a celestial light. The bench of Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice P. […] Read more » Jyothi Kerala government Makara
