Legal India Ishrat Jahan case: Differences crop up in SIT January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday said it would have to work out a model for the special investigation team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan killing to see that the ‘sanctity and spirit of its order is not paralysed due to differences of opinion amongst its members’. The court’s order came after the members of court-appointed […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
Legal India Delhi mosque demolition: DDA to file report in court January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will Friday submit its report to the Delhi High Court on the mosque built illegally on its land in the Jangpura area in 2005 and which was demolished Wednesday. Facing a contempt threat from the high court, the DDA – after several failed attempts – succeeded in razing the mosque. […] Read more » Delhi Development Authority (DDA) demolition mosque
Legal India Home ministry to answer in CP shootout: Court January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment Expressing surprise that suspended police official S.S. Rathi, one of the convicted policemen in the 1997 Connaught Place shootout case, is still on the rolls, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the union home ministry to verify his employment status and whether the service rules on dismissal pending appeal need to be reviewed. Justice […] Read more »
Legal India No apology for remark on chief justice: Prashant Bhushan January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan said Thursday there “is no occasion or cause” for him to accept the Supreme Court’s suggestion that he apologise for calling Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia corrupt, a reference to the time when the judge was part of the forest bench deciding on a case of mining major Vedanta. He turned down […] Read more » Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan senior counsel Ram Jethmalani
Legal India BSP legislator accused of raping minor surrenders January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi, accused of being involved in the gang-rape and illegal confinement of a minor girl in Banda last month, surrendered before a court Thursday, top officials said. Dwivedi, who represents the ruling party from Banda, 180 km from here, surrendered before the court of the […] Read more » Brinda Karat BSP legislator minor Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi raping
Legal India Chouhan blames Nehru for whole of Kashmir not being part of India January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment Shivraj Singh Chouhan Addressing a gathering in Chhattarpur district, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister said: ‘It is the mistake, historic mistake, of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru as because of him, the whole of Kashmir could not be part of India.’ BJP’s wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has announced it will hoist the […] Read more » Jawaharlal Nehru Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Legal India Gujarat High Court advocates to strike work from Jan 13 January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Advocates Association Tuesday passed a resolution to abstain from work for an indefinite period from Jan 13 to protest the non-appointment of judges. GHAA president Yatin Oza said the resolution condemned the inaction of the central government and other constitutional dignitaries over the issue. The resolution opposes the central government and […] Read more » Gujarat High Court
Legal India Adarsh scam: Maharashtra wants information commissioner to go January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra cabinet Tuesday decided to recommend the removal of State Information Commissioner (SIC) Ramanand Tiwari for his alleged involvement in the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam in Mumbai. A proposal to initiate suitable action under Section 17 of the Right To Information (RTI) Act, 2005 has been sent to Governor K. Sankaranarayanan. The RTI […] Read more » Adarsh scam Ramanand Tiwari State Information Commissioner
Legal India Gulf NRIs seek exemption under new direct tax rules January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments on Gulf NRIs seek exemption under new direct tax rules The proposed changes in the new direct tax code, which makes NRIs liable to pay tax if they stay in India for over 60 days a year, has led to some distress among the Indian diaspora in the Gulf region as they tend to spend a longer time in India due to their different socio-economic […] Read more » direct tax rules Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
Legal India Darbari, Jayachandran’s bail application hearing adjourned January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday adjourned the bail application of T.S. Darbari and M. Jayachandran, former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials, till Jan 14. They were arrested for alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Darbari, a former aide of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chief Suresh Kalmadi, was arrested Nov 15 by the […] Read more » M. Jayachandran T.S. Darbari
